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Check my unanswered support tickets and filter my feeds on cron

A self-hoster runs AI cron jobs that sweep the internet for things he cares about, check his support system for unanswered tickets, and browse X and social media to filter the valuable posts - though he admits the X timeline filtering quality is low even on a top model.

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How it works

  1. Set up the AI cron jobs on a home Mac mini
  2. Jobs discover content across the web
  3. Check the support system for unanswered tickets
  4. Scan X and social feeds and filter for value
  5. Owner reviews the digest

Why it’s worth knowing

A support-ticket watchdog and a social-feed filter run from a Mac mini under a desk - with the owner publicly grading one of the jobs as low quality.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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