You don't need to be a tech person to work like one.
Hustlyst is a newsletter about AI and automation tools for people who do not code. Twice a week, one tool at a time, tested before it is written about.
The readers are in sales, HR, marketing, operations and support. Freelancers, students, people running their own thing. Not developers. The question is always the same three parts: does this solve a real problem I have, can I use it without a tutorial, and is it worth the money.
| Tuesday | The long one. A single tool, taken apart properly. What existed before it, what it actually does, how five different kinds of people would use it, and the things the marketing page leaves out |
| Friday | The short one. Something new or something moving, in under four hundred words |
Every deep dive carries a Before You Install section. That means the privacy policy, the terms of service, what people are actually saying on Reddit, and whatever surfaced in the threads that the launch post did not mention.
It is not a takedown. It is the briefing a friend who already uses the tool would give you before you hand over your data or your card.
A tool has to clear all three of these:
- Usable on day one by someone non-technical. No code, no API keys, no setup weekend
- Useful across more than one job. If someone in sales, HR, ops and marketing cannot all find a use for it, it is too narrow
- Solves a work or life problem, not a technical one. Developer tooling belongs somewhere else, and there are better people to write about it
That last rule rules out a lot of what is currently loud, on purpose.
Tools are half of it. The other half is the instructions you give an AI assistant so it does a job properly instead of generically.
- meeting-design - design the meeting before you run it. Names the decision, picks the decision rule, cuts the room, and plans for deadlock. Ships fill-in agenda templates
- work-design - vetting a tool before you sign up, carrying context from one session into the next, catching an expensive request before it runs
All of them are MIT licensed and none of them need a terminal.
- hustlyst.com - the newsletter
- CS Pulse - the sister project, for customer success practitioners
- Written by Anirudh Kumar