Generate websites, a course and a 318-page ebook
A newsletter author used Manus over three days to produce websites, interactive courses and a 318-page ebook from simple prompts.
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- What they did
- Daria Cupareanu gave Manus a one-line prompt to build an AI-business course from scratch. Two follow-ups had it deploy a live website and add quizzes, games and YouTube videos. For the ebook, she attached her 100-prompt ebook, prompting guidelines, other prompt collections and a logo, and asked for expanded prompts. The task hit context limits, so she split it into three tasks.
- How it went
- She got a deployed interactive course site and a 318-page formatted ebook, though design and branding needed polish and prompts needed review. A third test, an infographic, came out illegible even after retries.
- Worth knowing
- She paid for Manus Plus at $39/month. Failed or restarted runs, like the ebook's context-limit restarts, used extra credits, and final formatting polish would have cost more.
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Create a [website, interactive course or ebook] about [topic] for [audience]. Plan the structure first and show it to me, then produce the full thing with [length or number of sections] and a consistent style. Finish with the files or a live link and a short list of anything you were unsure about or had to assume.
Source: aiblewmymind.substack.com · Undated
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