Nikos Automationshttps://nikosautomations.com/blog/index.htmlBuilding an AI-automation business in public.enDante Took Hours. The Shahnameh Is Seven Times Bigger. So I Ran 1,000 AI Calls at Once.https://nikosautomations.com/blog/parallel-shahnameh.htmlhttps://nikosautomations.com/blog/parallel-shahnameh.htmlTue, 09 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000The sequel to the cost lesson. Once each unit was cheap, time became the wall. Why massive parallelism was the right bet for a 50,000-couplet epic, what it cost (about €170, and fast), the rate limits it hits, and the auto-backoff that keeps it safe.$109 of AI Got Me One-Sixth of a Poem. The Fix Cost $25.https://nikosautomations.com/blog/read-in-the-original.htmlhttps://nikosautomations.com/blog/read-in-the-original.htmlTue, 09 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000A free web reader that keeps books in their original language: hover any word for its meaning in context, click any phrase for grammar plus a translation. And the unit-economics lesson behind it.I Built a Flashcard App That Verifies Its Own AIhttps://nikosautomations.com/blog/verified-flashcards.htmlhttps://nikosautomations.com/blog/verified-flashcards.htmlMon, 08 Jun 2026 18:00:00 +0000Every card is written by one AI and then checked by a second, independent AI whose only job is to catch the first one being wrong. Free and open source.I rebuilt Benjamin Franklin's 250-year-old self-improvement system as an app. It's free.https://nikosautomations.com/blog/i-rebuilt-franklins-virtue-system-as-an-app.htmlhttps://nikosautomations.com/blog/i-rebuilt-franklins-virtue-system-as-an-app.htmlThu, 04 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000Franklin tracked his character with a notebook and a grid. I rebuilt it this week, made it local-first, and open-sourced it — proof that one person plus a good AI setup can ship a real tool in a week.