I've been building generators with the AI Helper for a couple of months now. Lately I've been getting a few questions that could easily be answered with a beginner's tutorial that takes you from zero to a working generator in about ten minutes. No coding needed.
Eleven steps, roughly ten minutes:
- What Perchance is, and what a generator actually is
- Meeting the AI Helper and how to talk to it
- Finding your way around the editor
- Your first prompt — hands-on, you build something real
- Making it yours, adding a feature, saving and sharing
- The 3 golden rules for prompting the Helper
- Common mistakes and quick fixes, plus a quick-reference step to bookmark
It's interactive — each step has a "try it now" box, and your progress saves on your device, so you can work through it in bits. It's written for total beginners, so it's important that I get it right.
Here's where I need you. I've been staring at this thing too long to see my own blind spots, and I'd rather have the community sharpen it than leave it being just okay. If you build generators — experienced creators especially — I'd genuinely love your review. Specifically:
Is there anything a new builder NEEDS that I left out? Any step still too jargon-y for a true beginner? Anything wrong, outdated, or misleading? Does the order feel right to you? And if you're new and you work through it, tell me where it lost you — that's the review that matters most. You can comment here, or leave a note in the guestbook at the bottom of the tutorial.
I'm not pretending it's perfect — it's a first version. If you've got five minutes, I'd love your honest take, especially if you think a beginner would trip over something I missed.
The tutorial is here: https://perchance.org/ai-helper-tutorial

4 Comments
Hotstillnasty@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
i guess you mean this url??? https://perchance.org/ai-helper-tutorial
daveed@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Thanks! Missed that when I copy pasted.
Einskjaldi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
This seems to be a empty page, did you intend the two dash on the end to be in the url?
daveed@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Nope. Fixed.