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I fixed Claude Code for you in 30 seconds

25 min episode · 2 min read
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Matt van Horn

Episode

25 min

Read time

2 min

Topics

Relationships, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence

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Key Takeaways

  • Real-time trend research: Last Thirty Days searches X (Twitter), Reddit, and web sources for content published within 30 days, then uses that data to generate expert-level prompts for Claude Code. Users can research any topic from rap songs to cold email frameworks to competitive analysis without reading through forums manually.
  • Cold email framework automation: The tool identifies trending email frameworks like the three P's (praise, picture, push), AIDA (attention, interest, desire, action), and intention-based data triggers. Users provide minimal context and receive three complete email variants with subject lines based on current best practices from marketing communities.
  • API integration requirements: Setting up Last Thirty Days requires three components: a Claude Code subscription ($20-200 monthly), an OpenAI API key for Reddit access through OpenAI's partnership, and an X AI key since standard X accounts cannot search the platform. This combination enables comprehensive social media and web research.
  • Non-engineer workflow: Van Horn recommends keeping ChatGPT open alongside Claude Code to troubleshoot errors through screenshots. He discovered control-v (not command-v) pastes screenshots into terminal. This parallel workflow allows non-technical users to build and deploy tools without reading or understanding the underlying code being generated.
  • X growth strategy insights: Research on follower growth reveals replying as the top strategy, with power users recommending 30-80 thoughtful replies daily, engaging 40 minutes before posting original content, targeting larger accounts, replying first consistently, and posting at least once daily five days per week for maximum algorithmic visibility.

What It Covers

Matt Van Horn demonstrates Last Thirty Days, a Claude Code skill that searches X, Reddit, and web content from the past 30 days to generate optimized prompts. The tool helps users stay current with rapidly changing AI trends and best practices without manually researching forums and social platforms.

Key Questions Answered

  • Real-time trend research: Last Thirty Days searches X (Twitter), Reddit, and web sources for content published within 30 days, then uses that data to generate expert-level prompts for Claude Code. Users can research any topic from rap songs to cold email frameworks to competitive analysis without reading through forums manually.
  • Cold email framework automation: The tool identifies trending email frameworks like the three P's (praise, picture, push), AIDA (attention, interest, desire, action), and intention-based data triggers. Users provide minimal context and receive three complete email variants with subject lines based on current best practices from marketing communities.
  • API integration requirements: Setting up Last Thirty Days requires three components: a Claude Code subscription ($20-200 monthly), an OpenAI API key for Reddit access through OpenAI's partnership, and an X AI key since standard X accounts cannot search the platform. This combination enables comprehensive social media and web research.
  • Non-engineer workflow: Van Horn recommends keeping ChatGPT open alongside Claude Code to troubleshoot errors through screenshots. He discovered control-v (not command-v) pastes screenshots into terminal. This parallel workflow allows non-technical users to build and deploy tools without reading or understanding the underlying code being generated.
  • X growth strategy insights: Research on follower growth reveals replying as the top strategy, with power users recommending 30-80 thoughtful replies daily, engaging 40 minutes before posting original content, targeting larger accounts, replying first consistently, and posting at least once daily five days per week for maximum algorithmic visibility.

Notable Moment

Van Horn demonstrates building an enterprise competitor to an open-source tool by combining Last Thirty Days research with Compound Engineering planning. The system generates a complete technical architecture document including multi-tenant SaaS platform specifications, security requirements, and phased development roadmap without Van Horn writing any code or reading implementation details.

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Episode Transcript

There's a way to tune your Claude code so you get absolute superpowers. Some of my smartest friends are using this tool, and it's called Last thirty Days. It just came out, and I had the founder, Matt Van Horn, come on the podcast to show how to use it. What Last thirty Days does is it uses trending data on places like Axe and Reddit as the starting point for your prompts on cloud code. The cool part is you end up getting way more out of cloud code because the prompts are way more dialed and optimized. Enjoy the episode. Let me know if you think this is cool, and I'll see you in there. I feel like I'm in I know I'm in for a treat. Matt Van Horn is on the podcast, and he's gonna demo something very special. Matt, by the end of this episode, what are people gonna learn? They will have a new superpower in Cloud Code. It's called slash last thirty days, and, it's gonna for any topic you could possibly imagine from best prompting techniques for a particular tool to how should I use Cloudbot to what are the greatest rap songs right now. It's gonna search x, Twitter, and the web for only things that have happened in the last thirty days and give you a great result and help you be expert. My smart friends are using this right now, so I had to ask Matt to come on and showcase how to use this. So thank you, Matt. I say we just get right into it. Alright. YOLO. Let's, let's go. Oh, I can just dive in. So we are in Cloud Code. And so this is a skill for Cloud Code. And so once you install it, you just type in last thirty days. So research any topic from the last thirty days. So, can be anything. So let's say I want, let let's kick one off right here, most popular rap songs. So let's kick that one off. And so and then I'll I'll show someone's some pre canned ones that I've done. So using the last thirty days school, it's research the most popular rap song. Let me research the pop rap rap songs from the last thirty days. And so right here, it's Reddit, reading what Redditors are saying, x, reading the timeline, and then it's also running a a web search. So So is the is the thinking, like is the reason why you created this is there's so much good data on the Internet, and you wanna use that as, like, the jumping off point? Is that why? The the reason that I built this tool is I feel like everything is moving so quickly in AI, and it's nearly impossible to keep up with the conversation on X, on Reddit, on GitHub, and I wanted a tool that gives you superpowers to be able to just become expert on any topic …

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  • Last Thirty DaysRecommended
    Matt Van Horn demonstrates Last Thirty Days, a Claude Code skill that searches X, Reddit, and web content from the past 30 days to generate optimized prompts.
  • Van Horn demonstrates building an enterprise competitor to an open-source tool by combining Last Thirty Days research with Compound Engineering planning.
  • ChatGPTRecommended

    by OpenAI

    Van Horn recommends keeping ChatGPT open alongside Claude Code to troubleshoot errors through screenshots.
  • Claude CodeRecommended

    by Anthropic

    Last Thirty Days searches X (Twitter), Reddit, and web sources for content published within 30 days, then uses that data to generate expert-level prompts for Claude Code.
  • by OpenAI

    Setting up Last Thirty Days requires three components: a Claude Code subscription ($20-200 monthly), an OpenAI API key for Reddit access through OpenAI's partnership, and an X AI key.

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