ai-income-lab

AI Automation Station: Mike Holp’s AI build videos, written guides, and AI Income Lab community.

• Browse the free build guides
• Claude Code vs Codex: task routing and a checkable exercise
• Choose your first build
• 9Router setup notes
• Codex on Linux: setup and troubleshooting
• Codex internal-linking workflow
• Build a React YouTube feed
• Track clicks after consent
• Run your first local API request
• Make and verify a code change with Codex
• Filter approved requests with Make and Google Sheets

Build and preview

Use Node.js 22.12 or later. Run npm ci, npm run lint, npm test, and npm run build. Use npm run preview to inspect the production build locally. Copy .env.example to .env.local for optional integrations; keep credentials server-side.

The build refreshes the saved video feed and generates 480, 768, and 1280 pixel WebP candidates for the featured video using the build-only Sharp dependency. Hashed files in public/assets/thumbnails/ and src/thumbnail-snapshot.json provide an offline fallback. Keep them together when committing a refreshed snapshot. A failed download retains the previous set; a different video arriving through the live feed uses its own YouTube image until the next build. The browser still falls back to YouTube JPEG if an image fails to load.

Email open pixel

Public path after deploy: https://www.ai-automation-station.com/o/{token}.gif

GET /o/{token}.gif always returns a 1×1 transparent GIF (image/gif, HTTP 200). On each hit it best-effort logs the token, UTC time, User-Agent, IP (when present), and which product prefix matched.

Airtable tenant is chosen by token prefix. Shared field names when a route is configured:

• Opens: Open Id, Send Token, Opened At, User Agent, Source pixel
• Sends: Send Token; first open sets Opened + First Opened At

Auth (one of these, do not commit secrets):

• AIRTABLE_API_KEY
• AIRTABLE_PAT

Prefix routing

Prefix	Product	Env key	Airtable IDs
SKOOL-FT-	Skool / AI Income Lab free-to-paid	(Skool defaults)	Free Members 3 defaults below
AFF-	TubeAnalytics Affiliate	AFF	set env (no code defaults)
TA-BL-	TubeAnalytics Backlink	TA_BL	set env (no code defaults)
VS-BL-	VisiScan Backlink	VS_BL	set env (no code defaults)
POD-	Podcast Outreach	POD	set env (no code defaults)
JOB-	Job App Agent	JOB	set env (no code defaults)
INV-	Startup Investor Outreach	INV	set env (no code defaults)

Unknown tokens (for example test-token) fall back to the Skool route.

Skool defaults (also used for unknown tokens)

Override only if you need to move Skool off Free Members 3:

• AIRTABLE_BASE_ID — default appK4Nu5Dy4imXrDp
• AIRTABLE_OPENS_TABLE_ID — default tblFS59vmxGSrLCPJ
• AIRTABLE_SENDS_TABLE_ID — default tblsb6CJxqWZ93w74

Per-bot env vars (paste IDs here)

For every non-Skool prefix, set all three or that bot logs to console only (GIF still returns 200):

AIRTABLE_ROUTE_AFF_BASE_ID=
AIRTABLE_ROUTE_AFF_OPENS_TABLE_ID=
AIRTABLE_ROUTE_AFF_SENDS_TABLE_ID=

AIRTABLE_ROUTE_TA_BL_BASE_ID=
AIRTABLE_ROUTE_TA_BL_OPENS_TABLE_ID=
AIRTABLE_ROUTE_TA_BL_SENDS_TABLE_ID=

AIRTABLE_ROUTE_VS_BL_BASE_ID=
AIRTABLE_ROUTE_VS_BL_OPENS_TABLE_ID=
AIRTABLE_ROUTE_VS_BL_SENDS_TABLE_ID=

AIRTABLE_ROUTE_POD_BASE_ID=
AIRTABLE_ROUTE_POD_OPENS_TABLE_ID=
AIRTABLE_ROUTE_POD_SENDS_TABLE_ID=

AIRTABLE_ROUTE_JOB_BASE_ID=
AIRTABLE_ROUTE_JOB_OPENS_TABLE_ID=
AIRTABLE_ROUTE_JOB_SENDS_TABLE_ID=

AIRTABLE_ROUTE_INV_BASE_ID=
AIRTABLE_ROUTE_INV_OPENS_TABLE_ID=
AIRTABLE_ROUTE_INV_SENDS_TABLE_ID=

Optional JSON override (keys are the env keys above, or the raw prefix). A complete entry wins over the per-bot vars:

AIRTABLE_PIXEL_ROUTES={"AFF":{"baseId":"appXXX","opensTableId":"tblXXX","sendsTableId":"tblYYY"}}

Missing API key, missing route IDs, or Airtable errors never change the GIF response.