I attended my second group meetup at the Raleigh Founded building in downtown Raleigh, NC on August 10th.
The guest speaker this evening was Taylor Cotner.
The event was hosted by the Triangle Startup Collective, which I found last month on Meetup.com.
I previously attended a talk by Alec Coughlin in July.
For today’s event, I brought my recently purchased OSMO Pocket 1, gimbal camera.
At the previous presentation, in July, I had used a fixed-frame body camera, but it was heavy and AI couldn’t film the entire talk. I will upload the video after some light edits.
The Presentation
I think I must have learned some new stuff about AI before coming, because I understood more of what was spoken during Mr. Cotner’s talk. I was especially interested in the use of canvas to map out a series of tasks.
Applying the Lessons
Once I figure out how to implement an Agent into my work, it should become much easier. The processes for my business involve the following steps:
- Sourcing products
- Taking photos of the products
- Uploading the files to PC
- Researching the product, and
- Creating an eBay listing from the data.
I would like to build an agent that follows a workflow that starts as soon as I upload the photos.
If the agent could create an eBay listing draft for me to review beforehand, this would solve the greatest difficulty I have encountered in reselling.
I love to shop, but listing is boring.
There is a catalog of apparel I have sold, located on my other website, called the eBay Style Code Catalog. It was a side project that got a bit too big. I had considered moving it over here, but felt it didn’t quite fit this sites niche.
There is an AI tool that I generated after watching a popular YouTuber in the reselling industry, @JustinResells. This AI Sourcing Tool is used in the field to determine whether an item should be purchased or left behind. Basically, it checks the value of the items and then makes a determination based on a set of rules.
For clothes I have already purchased, I use a series of prompts I have saved to a notepad file to direct Google Gemini to analyze my photos and determine the garment I have photographed.
This is part of the process I would like to automate. I don’t know if it is possible to have an agent access my eBay account and then create a listing using the details it has gathered. There is much I still don’t understand, but I do feel I am getting closer to an answer.
