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How I Built an AI Product Factory on a Mac mini

A candid build-in-public guide: full pipeline architecture, Claude API patterns, Telegram bot control panel, static site generation, and honest lessons from building an automated digital product factory from scratch.

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I built a pipeline that runs on a Mac mini and automatically generates, packages, and publishes digital products using Claude AI. This guide is the full honest breakdown.

What's inside:

  • Full pipeline architecture (trend scan → idea rank → approval → generate → package → publish)
  • Which Claude models to use for which tasks and why
  • The Telegram bot as a zero-UI control panel
  • Static site generation without frameworks
  • Gumroad + Cloudflare Pages publishing
  • What failed: Reddit bans, Twitter API limits, thumbnail generation
  • The complete code structure
  • How to replicate it yourself

Who this is for:

Indie makers and developers comfortable with Python who want to automate digital product creation.

Stack: Python, Claude API, Telegram, Gumroad, Cloudflare Pages, GitHub.

Setup time: 4–6 hours.

Running cost: ~$2–5/month in Claude API usage.