I learn best by building something small and real rather than reading theory. What’s a good first project that touches the core concepts without being overwhelming? Ideally something I can finish in a sitting and actually see working end to end. If the community has favorite starter builds, I’d love to hear them.
The best “hello world” project in 3B…
I wish I could give you a nice clean answer of “build a app to do X”, or “make a workflow to sends leads from X system to Y chat” but I actually thing the best “hello world” project is automating or building an app for any process that you are personally very familiar with!
If you know exactly what the process is, how it needs to be done, and what the outcome should be you will have a much easier time describing it to 3B and know what you are working towards.
The only thing I would recommend is making sure you have all the necessary connectors already, or have permission to create those connectors as part of the process (or alternatively build something that dont really require a connector, but that kind of just limits the fun 
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Personally my “hello world” project in 3B was an Attack dice calculator app for Marvel Crisis Protocol to calculate chances of doing damage based based on number of attack and defense dice (and outed my self as a wargame neard right there!)
Because i knew the process for how the should be calculated very well, it was fairly complex process (when you start looking at modifier and order of execution) and something I could build a basic version 1 of and then iterate on.
(the downside to a project like that was there was no connectors involved, but then I could just add a export to google sheet options and a google sheet connector)
But would love to hear other people first 3B projects!
There’s millions of things you could do, but you could maybe start with something like:
- A morning digest of something you care about. “Every day at 8, grab the top posts from this subreddit, summarize them in three bullets, and send them to me in Slack.” A good first build because you’ll see it come through on Slack every morning, so you’ll actually keep tinkering with it.
- Some kind of nudge that fires only when it matters. “Check the surf forecast for my local beach and message me only if the swell is over three feet.” Teaching 3B when to stay quiet. This kind of thing exercises your understanding of conditional logic.
- Something small and maybe slightly ridiculous. A workflow that sends you a haiku about the day’s weather every morning, or emails you your dog’s monthly performance review. You’ll learn just as much if the thing you’re building is really fun and doesn’t necessarily have practical use.
Get it working end to end, then add error handling or a schedule, and keep building from there.
Two things worth a look: the Examples Gallery for inspiration, and 3B docs if you need help figuring anything out as you go.
You could also do something simple like call some free weather API for whatever city. then log that in a database/record or whatever and email a user each morning.
depending on the weather it can advise how to dress etc. e.g:
raining = bring an umbrella
cold = wear a jacket
hot = wear sunscreen