Two days. Zero prior Make experience. Interviews turning into share-worthy stories.
In 36 hours I built my first no-code AI pipeline:
Glide ➜ Make Webhook ➜ GPT-3.5 ➜ Router├─➜WordPress (draft post)└─➜Google Sheets (team collaboration)
- Glide lets me paste an interview (or auto-import YouTube/Zoom captions).
- A Make custom webhook grabs each block.
- OpenAI summarizes / analyses it.
- A Router sends successes to WordPress & Sheets; errors are quietly caught and logged.
Why it matters
- 3.2 – 6.5 million podcasts and 1 billion+ blogs exist.
- Creators drown in transcripts.
- With this flow anyone can turn a raw conversation into a ready-to-publish draft in minutes.
What I learned
- Lesson #1: Build error paths on day 1, not day 100.
- Lesson #2: Progress > perfection. Ship, learn, iterate.
- Lesson #3: Anything is possible if we committed to take action.
| Technical Challenge | Fix & Take-away |
|---|---|
| Oversized GET request → HTTP 431 | Switched Glide → POST body via Make webhook |
| Webhook queue stalled | Cleared queue & activated scenario before testing |
| OpenAI 429 “quota exceeded” | Added error branch; resume seamlessly after top-up |
| Big transcripts blew token limits | Chunk & test with small data first |
Kudos
Big thanks to Harold Dijkstra and the Build Weekend team for hosting this incredible event — and for enabling me (and many others around the world) to believe it’s possible to learn, create, and ship something meaningful in a single weekend.
Also grateful for the amazing tools that made rapid creation possible:
Descript · Glide · Make · OpenAI · Google Sheets · WordPress · Zoom · ytmp3.nu · ChatGPT · Loom
Thanks to every tool builder — your work empowers creators everywhere!
Next steps
- Upgrade OpenAI plan and run full transcripts.
- Propose to the Glide team releasing a public Glide + Make template so anyone can build upon it — and podcasters, bloggers, researchers, or educators can benefit.
- Extensions are limitless: add smart categorization, contextual enhancements, multi-language translation, and outputs across multiple channels and formats.
First Attempt, Real Value — Yes We Can!