Sending Daily TV Recaps by Paper Letter with Claude, Make.com, and Lob

Thomas (Josh) Thephasdin Atlanta, GA · 1H AGO

Last year my daughter went to camp and wanted daily updates on her favorite TV show, which ran every night. The camp only accepts letters, and I did not want to handwrite them every night, so I built a workflow to send them for me. It works for anyone who needs to send physical mail on a regular schedule. Through a website, I used Make.com to build the workflow: 1. It starts at a specific time each day. 2. It asks Claude for a recap of the previous night's episode. 3. The recap is fed into the Make.com workflow. 4. Make.com connects to Lob through an API. 5. I submitted through Lob to create the letter. Every late morning I see the new letter go out, and my daughter gets the episode recap a few days later. Recently I used a very similar workflow to build websites that send letters for people who want to cancel gym memberships or send landlords an email to end a rental. Both are situations where only physical letters are accepted. Connecting these tools took a little time, but it opened up a lot of possibilities, as long as someone still needs a physical letter.