Summary
Creator Magic’s Mike walks through a practical upgrade to his Hermes AI agent setup, solving a real workflow problem: research results gathered via Telegram were getting lost in chat history or abandoned markdown files. The solution connects Hermes — running locally on a Mac Studio with a 3.6 billion and 32 billion parameter model — to Apify’s newly released MCP connectors, enabling fully automated, end-to-end research pipelines with zero custom code.
The tutorial covers three main integrations: first, connecting Hermes to an Apify Reddit actor to pull top posts from subreddits like r/singularity in real time; second, enriching those posts with a Trends MCP server that cross-references live trend data across Google Search, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, Amazon, and Wikipedia simultaneously; and third, routing the combined output directly into a Notion board via Apify’s built-in Notion MCP connector. The whole pipeline is triggered by a single Telegram message to the agent.
The video is particularly useful for content creators and researchers who want to automate competitive intelligence gathering without writing backend code. Apify’s Trends MCP offers 100 free requests per month, making it accessible for individual builders. The result is a workflow where a Telegram prompt triggers Hermes to scrape Reddit, score trending topics across multiple platforms, and deposit a structured research brief into Notion — ready for action without any manual data wrangling.
📺 Source: Creator Magic · Published June 15, 2026
🏷️ Format: Tutorial Demo
