one of our engineers built a personal AI assistant on $0.
stack:
- friday
- openrouter free tier
- bundled google calendar MCP
read the full step by step on setting it up, picking the right free model, and what she learned along the way.
Data teams spend half their week on work that doesn't require their judgment.
Describe what you want once. Friday runs it in the background while you do something else.
open.substack.com/pub/hellofrida…
David, our design engineer, built a workspace that checks surfline every 30 min across SD beaches and texts him when it's worth paddling out
agent pulls conditions → checks height, period, wind, swell angle → alert fires with the beach and window
v0.1.8 of Friday Studio shipped today.
A few highlights:
• Chat file attachments
• Scope credentials per workflow
• Settings page per workspace
• Graceful MCP degradation
Read everything released at