As a Designer-Turned-PM, This Completely Blew My Mind #shorts
As a Designer-Turned-PM, This Completely Blew My Mind #shorts
#AppDevelopment #Lovable #n8n #WorkAutomation #ClockOutOnTime #shorts #WorkAutomation #Productivity #FakeWork #NoCode
If you're busy all day but have nothing to show for it, you're doing 'fake work'. Here's how to start doing real work with AI. 'Lovable', the tool that lets you build a web app in 1 minute just by chatting with an AI, like "Create an OKR dashboard for me." Check out even more shocking features in the full video! n8n automation deletes the repetitive tasks that devalue you, like organizing customer feedback and compiling reports.
Full video link: https://youtu.be/sakFzGGkoj0
Are you just 'pretending' to be productive? Yes, you heard that right. That moment when you've been busy typing and in back-to-back meetings all day, but when it's time to go home, you ask yourself, 'What did I actually accomplish today?' and can't quite answer. We call this 'fake work'. As a designer-turned-PM, I've spent 6 years at an AI startup, launching and failing hundreds of projects. Through that process, I discovered the biggest difference between successful teams and stagnant ones. It's 'leverage'. Successful teams don't just grind away their personal time. They use systems and tools to get 10, no, 100 times the results from the same amount of effort. The same is true for individual success now. In the age of AI, competence isn't about 'how long you work,' but 'how you create overwhelming leverage with powerful tools'. This means the era where working late was a measure of diligence is completely over. While thinking about this, I came across a video by Dan Martell, a 2-million-subscriber YouTuber and successful entrepreneur I admire. He says something very important in his video: 'The way to get rich in the age of AI isn't by working harder, but by mastering the tools that reduce your work.' It was a real wake-up call. I thought, 'This is it'. So today, I want to take Dan Martell's grand theme of 'how to get rich' and reinterpret it for our reality as PMs, planners, designers, marketers, and solo entrepreneurs as 'how to become an irreplaceable talent'. If you watch until the end of today's video, you'll get three concrete weapons that will transform you from someone who wastes time on simple, repetitive tasks into a key talent who understands the core of a project. All without a developer or a single line of code. So, let's unveil the first weapon. The first tool is n8n. When you think of work automation, many of you probably think of 'Zapier'. It's a great tool, of course, but the cost can get pretty steep as your workflows become even slightly more complex. n8n is an open-source automation tool that offers much more powerful features and can even be started for free. If you self-host it on your own server, you can use it almost without limits. Now, let's take a look at your reality. Aren't you doing these things every day? First, processing customer feedback. You receive survey responses from Google Forms or Typeform, organize the results in Excel, copy the key points to Notion, and share them with the relevant department on Slack. You're probably spending at least 30 minutes a day on this process. Second, weekly reports. Every Monday morning, are you spending all your crucial morning hours scraping your tasks from Jira and Asana to decorate a PowerPoint or Notion page for your report? Third, new customer onboarding. When a customer pays for your service, you send a welcome email, register their information in your internal CRM, and send a Slack notification to the person in charge. If you're still doing all of this manually, your time is being stolen from you. These are the 'fake work' tasks that are eating away at your value. They're simple labor that requires no creativity or expertise. Okay, look at the screen now. This is the n8n workflow builder. It doesn't look like coding; it looks like assembling Lego blocks. Let me show you a workflow I actually use. See the 'Typeform' node here? This workflow starts when a new feedback is submitted. Following the arrow, it connects to an 'OpenAI' node, which summarizes the incoming feedback text into just three lines and even performs a sentiment analysis to see if it's positive or negative. Then, it sends the results to the 'Notion' node to automatically stack them up in a database. At the same time, the 'Slack' node sends a notification to the relevant channel saying 'New customer feedback has been registered!' along with the AI-generated summary. It only takes about 30 minutes to set up this workflow once. But with this 30-minute investment, you'll save an hour every day and evolve from a person who simply copies feedback to someone who 'derives insights based on AI-analyzed data.' Which person will be valued more? The answer is clear. The second tool is Lovable. Everyone, be honest. You have at least 10 ideas for a service you've been sitting on, thinking, 'Ah, this would be a huge hit,' right? But why can't you execute them? Because you have to write a complex spec to explain it to the development team, ask a designer to draw up a wireframe... The process is so long and complicated that the idea loses its steam before it becomes a reality. Lovable completely shatters this process. It's a service where you literally 'chat' with an AI to build websites and apps. Seeing is believing. Let me show you the process of me instructing the AI directly. Alright, I'm now going to create 'a simple dashboard to manage our team's OKRs'. No coding, no Figma, nothing is needed. I'm just going to type in plain English here in Lovable's chat window. I'll type this: "Create the main screen. Set the title to 'CallitAI Q3 Goals' and show three objectives in a card format." Now, look at the screen. The basic structure is created in an instant. Amazing, right? Let's get a bit more detailed here. I'll type again: "For each card, allow adding three key results, and next to each key result, add a progress bar that can be adjusted from 0% to 100%." Did you see that? The card UI on the screen updated instantly, and a functioning progress bar appeared. As a designer-turned-PM, this completely blew my mind. In the past, creating this one screen would have taken at least half a day—planning meetings, drawing in Figma, handing it off to developers... But now, it took less than a minute. And that's not all. When I type, "Also, add a dark mode toggle button in the top-right corner," a dark mode toggle appears on the screen, and clicking it actually turns the screen dark. Are you getting the picture? This isn't just about creating mockups. It's the experience of assembling a real, functioning web app by conversing with an AI. Now, you no longer need to create a 50-slide PowerPoint deck to explain your ideas. Just open Lovable and turn your ideas into reality with your words. Whether it's an internal tool for your team or an MVP for customer validation, you can build anything.
The last and third tool is Atlas. This is the tool that Dan Martell explained first and for the longest time. It's often used for capturing B2B sales leads, but I approach it from the perspective of 'automating initial customer interviews'. Imagine you've built a great service as a side project and gathered 100 beta sign-ups. Listening to the voices of these 100 people is the key to success. But how are you supposed to email all of them and call them to schedule interviews? For a solo entrepreneur, it's a nearly impossible task. Atlas is a service that lets you hire an AI voice agent, or an 'AI voice assistant'. While you're sleeping, this AI assistant will call all 100 of your potential customers. It will ask them pre-designed questions, receive their answers, and even create a report by transcribing them into text. For example, you could input a script like this into Atlas. The AI would then make a call like this: 'Hello, [Name]. This is the AI agent from CallitAI. Thank you for signing up for our beta service. May I ask you a few quick questions?' If the person says 'yes', 'Thank you. Could you tell me what problem you were hoping to solve by signing up for our service?' 'What feature are you most excited about in our service?' What if the raw, unfiltered answers from 100 people, collected this way, were perfectly organized on your Notion page the next morning? You could use this to prioritize product development and refine your marketing messages. By automating the process of listening to customer feedback, you can understand market needs and improve your product 10 times faster than your competitors. Today, we've done a deep dive into three tools: n8n for automating repetitive tasks, Lovable for turning ideas into reality, and Atlas for automating customer validation. Do you see what these three tools have in common? They transform you from a 'bricklayer' into the 'architect who designs the building'. They allow you to focus your limited resources—your time and effort—on what's most valuable: setting strategy, solving creative problems, and deeply connecting with customers. This is the power of 'mastering the tools' that Dan Martell talked about, and it's the key secret to not just surviving, but thriving in the age of AI. Take a look at your to-do list today. And ask yourself this question: 'Which of these tasks can I delegate to an AI?' The tools I've introduced today will be a powerful compass on your journey to find the answer.
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Originally published on YouTube: 10/28/2025