A project I’m really excited to start working on as soon as possible: The Browserflow Automation Academy.

Currently, there isn’t a great way for people to learn to get better at using Browserflow. The tutorial is great for learning how to handle simple scraping tasks, but as soon as things get complicated, you’re on your own. The fact that there’s a gallery so people can learn from examples and documentation for each command makes it possible for someone to figure things out on their own, but it’s still hard to do.

The Browserflow Automation Academy would be a way to progressively get better at using Browserflow through a series of projects/missions.

Every project will present a page and some task to perform, and the user’s job would be to figure out how to do it using Browserflow. There will be hints to help them out and a reference solution video + flow for every single project so that they can get help if they get stuck.

I’m hoping that this will help familiarize people with how Browserflow works and how to handle some of the common scenarios that pop up (e.g. how do you click on a button that only appears for some elements ⇒ use the If command).

This would also be a great way to onboard and train Browserflow experts who can help build custom flows for people. Browserflow basically has its own domain-specific language, so it makes sense to teach people how to use it as well as how to solve common problems that arise when automating websites.

Hm, at the same time, I know that I want to invest in long-form content ASAP because SEO takes a long time to kick in so it’s better to start earlier rather than later. Should I focus on building the Browserflow blog first and then build the automation academy? Hire someone to build out the academy? HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

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