A few months ago I started learning AI tools. Not because someone told me to, but because I kept seeing people talk about them online and I wanted to know if they actually worked.

So I started searching. YouTube videos, Instagram reels, blog posts, newsletters. I wanted to find someone who would just show me how to do things. Step by step. No jargon. No hype.

I couldn't find it.

The problem with most AI content

Everything I found fell into one of three categories.

Category one: hype. "This tool will 10x your productivity!" Great. But how? What do I actually do with it? No answer.

Category two: jargon. Posts written for engineers, full of terms I had to Google just to understand the title. Not helpful when you're starting from zero.

Category three: the course pitch. Free content that's really just a 45-minute ad for a $997 programme. You watch the whole thing and learn nothing because the actual useful stuff is behind a paywall.

I just wanted someone to say: "Here's a tool. Here's what it does. Here's how to set it up. Here's what I made with it." That's it.

So I started making it myself

I figured if I couldn't find the content I wanted, I'd create it. Not because I'm an expert. I'm not a developer. I'm not a tech person. I'm someone who picked up these tools and figured them out by trying.

That's what @reallyusefulai is. It's me documenting what I learn as I go. The tools that work, the ones that don't, and the honest steps to get from "I have no idea what I'm doing" to "I just made something cool."

Why the guides are free

The whole point of this is to make AI accessible. If I put everything behind a paywall, I'd be doing the exact thing that frustrated me in the first place.

The guides on this site are free. They cover real tools, with real steps, that I've actually used. No fluff. No upsell at the end.

If I can build a website, create videos, and automate my content with AI, anyone can. That's not a sales pitch. That's literally what happened.

What's next

I'm going to keep making guides and sharing what I learn. New tools, new projects, new things I figure out along the way. Some of it will be polished. Some of it will be messy. All of it will be honest.

If that sounds useful to you, grab a free guide and see if it helps.

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