Merchandise Your Inventory Faster
Turn images into custom descriptions in your own voice without opening ChatGPT.
Hello!
It’s been a bit! It's a little longer than I’d prefer to do in the future, but regardless - I'm excited to share the next project. This one typically falls outside of most common workflows shared by most knowledge workers and bleeds into helping you in your personal life - but regardless - I think this has a lot of value.
Today, we will explore content automation - and how to do it correctly. We’ve all seen a boatload of AI-generated images and videos and probably even have our suspicions about text from various sources. I think they lack 2 important things:
Soul & Effort.
This means we need to automate the content generate process elegantly. Let’s consider the task of selling some clothes or items on Facebook marketplace. Maybe you’re doing some spring cleaning, maybe you’re trying to sell some things out of your office. Regardless, using AI to generate captions of your items can be robotic and without soul, especially if they are not in your voice or missing context to your brand.
Platforms like Depop (which we will focus on today) are as much about the people selling the items as the items themselves. That’s why a consistent, friendly, self-tuned voice can help move inventory and save you time.
So, since we can’t automate taking pictures of the items we are selling, I think we can generate friendly captions without needing to upload pictures and images to ChatGPT Plus and constantly feed it context.
Let’s see how an application like this could work.
Scenario:
We are selling clothes. A LOT of clothes. Filling in the description of what you’re selling can take a lot of time & effort, but we still want to sound like ourselves. How can we do this?
Here’s an example function that leverages Gmail, OpenAI’s GPT-4o, and Google Cloud to email a picture of the item you want to sell to a pre-determined email address and receive a custom caption in your voice in seconds.
Let’s take a look at real-world examples!
We want to caption a green shirt for sale. Using the image of the shirt, I attach it to an email and send it off to a predetermined email address that processes my emails to look for a specific phrase in the subject. At this point, it’s “CAPTION”.
A few moments later, I received an email back in the voice that I had pre-set up the application to talk in, including specific text that I wanted to include. This is the result!
Perfect! Now I copy and paste this into my listing, and voila! The caption is generated.
This project can be challenging for novices, so I hired some help. PrompterGPT is a great way to get a guided walkthrough through building all of our projects. Fine-tuned with knowledge from our projects, PrompterGPT can help you customize, troubleshoot, or edit the project however you like. To build this project, just hit the button below and let PrompterGPT know which project you’d like to work on (this one is called “Merchandise Your Inventory Faster”.
Also, big shoutout to the Depop store this was built for, Maggie’s Closet! You can check out all of their styles at the link.
What’s next?
Over the next few weeks and months, I’m excited to highlight a three-part series on automating accounting for small businesses and projects and how to make a stack that keeps you from doing repetitive, mundane tasks and refocuses your valuable attention towards more important tasks.
Stay tuned, and as always, if you liked this article, consider subscribing and sharing!
I’ve also launched a referral program, trading my time to automate tasks at your business for subscribers. Check it out!
Cheers,
The Prompter Team