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Matiklava Goes Partying

Weekly newsletter · 2026 · Claude Code · Python · Web crawling · LLM extraction · Cloudflare Workers · Telegram bots · MailerLite

Matiklava Goes Partying is a weekly guide to underground parties in Taiwan, started in August 2024 for 30 people. Every issue used to take three to four hours of copying flyers into MailerLite. In April 2026 I rebuilt it using Claude Code.

Issue 27 of the newsletter, top of the email
Email example.

April 2026Pipeline

A script reads 55 Instagram accounts and Resident Advisor, checks the dates and links, writes a draft issue, and ask for manual review.

Diagram: how an issue gets made, six steps and the tools underneath
Workflow diagram.

Every weekAI-assisted direction

  • "Let's start issue #27."

  • It asks me eight questions about the current issue.

  • It builds the issue and checks it against the original posts.

  • It hands it to me to read.

  • Every correction I make becomes a rule, so the same mistake doesn't come back.

Pythonthe pipeline
Instagram + RA55 accounts, cross-checked
LLMcaption and flyer to event
MailerLitedrafts and sending
Cloudinaryflyers that never expire
Cloudflare Workersboth Telegram bots

Around the emailArchive

archive.matiklava.com, optimized SEO and GEO for search engines and LLMs.

The archive index.

Two Telegram bots

Both on Cloudflare Workers: one reports to me, one serves readers.

Flow: a pipeline step finishes, the operator bot reports to my phone; an issue goes out, @MGPguideBot pings its subscribers
Bots flow diagram.

Growth and partners

Everything else runs off the same data:

Subscribe pagetracks which ad, post or bot brought each reader
Meta adssubscribers at NT$7 per lead
Partners pagesells placements, live numbers
Click reportwhat people opened, after each send
Trends reportgrowth and open rate across issues
Instagram carouselfive slides from each issue

27 issuesResults

794subscribers (30 at issue 1)
52%average open rate, twice the 25% benchmark
67.5%best open rate
19issues in six months since the relaunch
NT$7per subscriber lead from Meta ads
19Klines of code, built solo with Claude Code