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πŸ€–πŸ’‘ NxtConnect NY - Upcoming AI Events, AI Productivity Hacks + Community Insights πŸ§ πŸš€πŸŒ†

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Frederike Falke
June 09, 2025

Hi there. Why you are here? Because you signed up to one of our events or to the newsletter directly. How you benefit? We share a curated list of upcoming tech and AI events in NYC, practical tips to use AI in your day-to-day and miscellaneous insights and learnings on related topics.

What we cover today

  • Thanks for joining our NY Tech Week Event last week

  • Upcoming Events in town

  • 3 Tools, 3 Steps - how to build your own website in the blink of an eye

  • AI learnings, insights and ideas from last week

  • Community Updates & past events

🀝 Our NY Tech Week Event

It was great to see so many familiar faces at our NY Tech Week event last week on Scaling Communities with AI! We had over 500 registrations and 120 participants joining in, mixing and mingling and sharing best practices and success stories on communities and AI.

Thanks to all of you who came! I hope you had a great time!

What I heard is that you want more events - so stay tuned and check out below for some first next events and soon to be more.

πŸ“… Upcoming Events in Town

Here you learn all about our own upcoming events as well as additional events in town with a focus on Artificial intelligence and how it can enhance your work and make it more productive.

Our own upcoming Events:

  • Fri, 13th Jun - 3 Tools, 3 Websites with AI in 1.5 hours - This is for non-technical professionals that want to gain knowledge into available tools of how to quickly build themselves a website with AI (online)

  • Sun, 15th Jun - Women in AI Breakfast - Join us for a relaxed breakfast where we peer-share our learnings and best practices of how to use AI in our day-to-day to be more productive

  • Tue, 17th Jun - June Summer Tech Mixer - Join us for a relaxed mixer where we bring founders, investors, operators and enthusiasts in the AI space together to share best practices, connect and grow together

Other Events β†’ Next Week:

Week After:

After That:

πŸ’‘ The 3 Tools & 3 Steps that give you a personalized website in the blink of an eye

AI tools are everywhere, but the speed of new tools entering the market that help you to create your own websites is phenomenal. You focus on a deeper-dive project and a second later, another tool entered the market - and it often is better than the ones we saw before.

So here are 3 Tools and 3 Steps for how you can build our personalized website in the blink of an eye - almost πŸ˜‰ 

3 Steps - Write - Create - Improve

Step 1: Write - From Broad to Specific

The first step is all about writing what you want. Write in an AI tool like Claude, DeepSeek or else, what you want to build and ask for a technical deep-dive implementation and user flows for what you want to build.

Review the technical implementation plan of the AI model of your choice and make edits where necessary. You can also include colors, fonts, content and co. When done, save your technical implementation plan.

Step 2: Create - Choose your Tool and get started

For your second step, choose your implementation tool (wait a second for β€˜which one’), paste your implementation plan and see the magic happen.

Step 3: Improve - Make it better till you are happy

The third step is often the longest, but gets shorter the better you write down what you want to achieve in step 1. Here you talk to the model of your choice to fix what is not working as you wanted it and add more features - those that you did not include in your initial plan but realize that they are important.

Don’t overdo that step. You can easily end up in rabbit holes. Focus on the main minimal outcome you are happy with and then share your result with friends and clients. Only if there is traction, continue to fine-tune your website.

3 Tools - Manus, Lovable, Cursor

Manus - the latest tech stack addition

Manus came to my tech stack lately when I realized that they become strong in presentation creation that they can then easily turn into websites with the click of a button. Manus is great if you want to create a quick and easy visual website with little extra add-ons needed.

Lovable - the easy and yet powerful website builder

Lovable works great if you do not want to code yourself but still have a powerful stack, that allows you to not only create frontend (what you see as a user) websites, but also backend functionality (databases storing your data, functions to turn data into insights and more). When you are done with your website, you can either give the code to a developer to fine tune your website or you leave it as it is. Can handle a wide range of websites including member login, marketplaces and co.

Cursor - more powerful but less smooth design and steeper learning curve

Cursor is effectively a place where developers write code. But it has two effective additions that make it usable for non-techies that are willing to look at code. These are the Cursor AI agent and as a second add-on Claude Code. With these two, you have two powerful AI agents helping you create your website. And you make sure they build what you want to build. More powerful in its functionality, full control, but takes some time to not get overwhelmed with code everywhere πŸ˜‰ 

Deep Dive Workshop on how to effectively build your website with AI

Friday, 13th of June 2025, 3:30-5pm

Google Meet

Please share with friends that could profit from that session too.

🧠 AI Innovation Insights

Sharing insights and learnings from the last week on AI and what is going on in the space, new tools, ideas and learnings.

A paper that received widespread interest

  • Apple just published a paper that shows that AI models are excellent in pattern-finding, but fail miserably in reasoning and thinking - seems we are further away from AGI than often described - good news and my view: AI enhances our work, it does not take our work away - and yet, some view that paper also as a barrier soon to be overcome - let’s see how we view that paper and it’s reasoning in a year from now

AI Tools I stumbled across that deserve a closer look

  • Hebbia - automates work in the finance industry. Takes tables and turn them into AI workflows.

  • Graphite - for techies, shipping products faster to simplify the technical teamwork

  • Momentic - Testing for building AI Apps - I learned the last weeks that testing is everything and troubleshooting can take very long, so that is super valuable

  • Better Auth - Creating an authentication system/member login/logout is not as simple as it sounds and better auth solves that issue

Ideas based on the insights of the week

  • PgDog (wondering why they picked that name ;)) can extend one’s PostgreSQL database β†’ another idea: what if there is a PostgreSQL database that can not only be extended with pgvector for vector databases but also with graph databases and more? There are databases that do all like Surrealist DB, but particularly the graph transversals are not as powerful as using i.e. Neo4j (for all non-techie readers - that is a more techie idea ;))

  • Sim Studio makes building production AI Agents easier - like a Figma visual-design interface β†’ what if we take it one step further and do not need cards to define the agents and bring them together, but abstract that a layer and have AI agents creating those cards and steps for us? So that we can speak to our AI agentic flow that we are building?

Insights that lets you think deeper

  • Clarm automates workflows within restricted and highly compliance-concerned industries like banking and finance.

    • A great idea, because I learned this week at the Women in AI breakfast at NYSE that the following thing happened: A team leader asked ChatGPT for a team org chart out of interest for her company and the result was an almost accurate org chart even though she did not provide any initial company information upfront. What does it tell us about privacy in using AI? Clarm may be just what we need here. And a critical thought: what if all our data input has been used till now for sharing purposes with others?

    • And a second related thought - what if governments give all their residents (see UAE) access to ChatGPT, how much influence does an individual company gets over the shaping of a whole country?

πŸš€ Community Updates

Thanks again for everyone who joined our NY Tech Week event this week - it was a blast! And excited to meet you all again soon at one of our own or partner AI events in town.

Plus, we gained several new members this week, growing our community to 1100 members. Excited that you are onboard!

Plus love your feedback - if you have any, ideas to co-host events, want to get featured or want to sponsor an event - don’t hesitate and reach out. Love to hear from you! πŸ™‚ 

πŸ‘‹ Business Opportunities

We are working intensively to bring you our latest product: NxtCRM AI - connecting you in the age of AI with a tool to makes it as easy and simple as having a personal Linkedin in your pocket - whenever you need it. For that, we are looking for the following support:

  • Want to help us build? We have open Engineering internship roles.

  • Want to help us grow? Let us know and let’s have a 1:1.

  • Want to tell us your story? We showcase you + you help us shape the product to your needs. Plus you get to test it first.

Write an email to [email protected] if one of the opportunities speak to you!

🀝 Get Involved

  • Share Your Story: Building in NY in Tech & AI? We'd love to feature you!

  • Spread the Word: Know someone who'd benefit? Forward this newsletter!

Yours, Frederike

NxtConnect NYC Community

Want to be featured? Have feedback? Reply to this email or reach out on LinkedIn. Let's build it together! πŸ—½πŸš€πŸ’‘