Intro to Background Agents

Hey, welcome to the background agent lessons. What we are going to build is a simple macro calculator based on a starter template. So we are building a simple website web application where you can calculate your macros. Let me insert some height and then some weight. And then we can choose here from different options. And it will calculate some macros. And with background agents we are going to build our about page and then our pricing page. This is one of the simplest examples I could think of. And I think it's pretty nice to start with. And also to start working with it. Maybe you want to sell some eBooks or maybe you have a service. And you want to get started with building a micro SaaS and you want to do it really fast. But you don't want to spend hours and hours on learning different technologies or basically putting all together. So I think building a simple little website is a nice starting point and you can do so with modern technologies and advanced frameworks but also with very simple inputs. Now with a bit of background agents we can guide you through creating this web application. And we can also still cover the points if you ever want to scale or ever want to employ some paid traffic. On top of it we want flexibility and a clean design. We want to avoid paying extra monthly costs. And we want to start small. So if later on we want to extend our website with additional pages or with other solicitations. For example like giving people the possibility to download something or maybe adding your blog. Then we can do that quite quickly. So here I think it's use cases like creating a landing page or a newsletter sign up for your newsletter. Or maybe a pricing matrix where you show different tiers of pricing. And you can always extend it later on. For instance you can also add some eCommerce. So if you want to sell maybe like a 5 euro eBook then you could add a simple payment link. With Stripe it's really easy and then you can sell it. So you can do everything really simple to start with and you can still have the possibility to scale it later on. And then also choosing maybe a different pricing plan or a different builder. And then of course with no code tools you can further extend and choose multiple pricing plans or multiple tiers. You can also choose a very specific niche software like a specialized low code builder. If you want to be really fast and just start with one thing. For example for a recipe site or for a video store you could pick a specific stack and they already solve a lot of problems for you. But then if you want to do everything on your own or if you want to scale then you might be locked into their pricing. And that might cost you extra. So the advantage of a simple approach is that you can just do everything yourself while having these building blocks basically scaffold out the base and then you can customize everything on top of it.