Howdy,

Seeing that you’ve found your way to AutoHotkey, at one point or another, you’ve probably considered selling your scripts.

A lot of people come to me saying they have an “amazing idea” for a script and are willing to share the idea for a “cut of the profits”.

The thing is: the vast majority of ideas are “cheap”❗

Many of us “grew-up” thinking the world would beat a path to our door if we could just “invent a better mouse trap”

In order to actually end up making money you need to be able to let the world know that you’ve created.

Some of our clients keep trying to tweak/perfect their “mouse trap” before launching.   This, more often than not, is a mistake.

I encourage our clients to get a 1^st version of their tool created and get it in front of prospects as soon as possible.

Understanding just “how hungry” the audiences is for your product will help justify how much more work you should do on it.

I can also tell you with 100% confidence that, as a developer, you should:

Implement More and Innovate Less❗

Create something that is reliable enough to get the concept across and get it in the hands of your target market.

If they “go on and on” about how it changes their life then dive-deep into the product but don’t worry about making it “perfect“.   Remember

Version one is infinitely better than version none❗

Of course, if you’d like us to help you create that first version, check out my calendar and schedule a call!

Now on with the show…

Fat Arrows => so much better than Skinny Arrows❗

During an AHK hero call a few weeks back Isaias gave us a great overview of learning how, and when, to use Fat Arrows.

⚡ AutoHotkey v2 =ᐳ Fat Arrows That Supercharge Your Scripts❗

Wrangling in your VS code Extensions

During this last weekend a Hero member was having issues with his AutoHotkey Extensions in VS code.

Isaias gave some great insights how to deal with them in this video.

If this interested you, check out our Intro to VS code course! It’s a game changer❗

VSCode extensions for AutoHotkey v1 and v2

Flipping Text for your Teleprompter

Several years ago Maestrith wrote a very cool v1 script that would “invert” text on the screen.  A client mentioned something the other day so I had Irfan convert it to v2.

The code itself is super-cool so, even if you don’t have a Teleprompter, it is worth getting just to see the approach.   You can see a demo of the script here.

Flip Text for Teleprompter

Improving People’s Lives: Story #53

We used our AI Translator during a call with clients that only speak French.  I wasn’t perfect but definitely helped the communications!

What we’re reading

• Google Messages Adds Long-Awaited Features
• Learning to Code can be hard (but doesn’t have to be)
• How to Delete Rows from a Filtered Range without Crashing Excel

AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage

• Amazon boss says AI will replace jobs at tech giant
• An AI video ad is making a splash costing under $2,000
• Verizon adopts Google’s Gemini AI to help customers solve ‘complex’ issues

⚡️Productivity tips:

In PowerPoint you can hit Shift+F5 to Start the slideshow from current slide

A spot of Humor: Elaine getting down Everywhere!

The Bizarro Elaine Dance

What we utomated this week with AutoHotkey #90

Here I walk through 96 AutoHotkey scripts we worked on over the past week.

At the beginning I mention an amazing ffmpeg tool I built that records both my desktop and my webcam!

What we automated with AutoHotkey #90

Client’s say…

The Automator is an amazing resource I use it weekly. — David Burk

AHK Hero

Consider joining the AHK Hero club! Members receive 25% off courses, consultations, tutoring, done for you project work, etc.    Currently we have over 426 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that is exclusive to AHK Hero members❗

During this Friday’s call we’re planning to discuss:

• Help AHK Hero Members with their Questions & Code
• Remapping via the Registry’s “Scancode Map”
• Have your Demo license start on first use instead of Order date
• Issue with : Get Active Path and DPI Adjuster
  • Issue with Get active path and SciTE
• Understanding Closures
• Walk through our FFmpeg class
• Debugging an executable: Using OutputDebug

They also have access to exclusive & pre-released content and a 3 hours a week where we help people with their AHK issues (the Saturday calls are geared towards people new to AutoHotkey.)

️ Quotable quotes

• Learn how to calculate the future cost of your bad decisions — Joe Glines
• If every request is a five alarm fire, it’s your house that’s gonna go up in flames — Amy Landino
• Decisions without actions are worthless — Dan Kennedy

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Joe, Isaias, Irfan, Denilson and staff

P.S. If you’d like to talk about how and where to market your product, check my calendar and schedule a call.