I built an Illustrator sine wave tool in 5 minutes. It is free in my app.
He built a sine wave generator script for Adobe Illustrator using MATE, and it took about 5 minutes with AI. The script is now free for everyone in Astute Manager Pro.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,668 ideasI automated our hiring, I just reply yes and it books the interview
Job applications from a Google Form land in his spreadsheet on their own and each one is emailed to him to review. If he replies yes, the applicant gets his scheduling link; once they book they get joining instructions and a reminder an hour before. He runs the business next to a full time job and two kids in diapers, so every message it sends for him counts.
Publish my blog in four languages every day from one instruction
Context Studios' AI agent Timmy runs a daily content pipeline from a single instruction: it researches a topic, writes the article in English, translates it into German, French and Italian, creates all four posts in the CMS and publishes them. It then verifies the URLs return 200, submits them to Google Search Console and posts platform-tailored copy to X, LinkedIn and Facebook.
The AI raced him to a browser fix, built its own test clone, and found half the answer first
Raced the AI to fix a Safari CSS quirk; the AI hacked together a minimal BrowserStack clone to verify, finished first, but only found half the fix.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Turn my blog posts into finished short-form videos
The same studio's agent Timmy orchestrates more than 20 tools to turn blog posts into short videos: Veo generates scenes, ElevenLabs synthesises a custom voice, and automated captioning, lip sync and final assembly finish the piece. The pipeline runs inside the studio's normal the AI production setup.
Two models rebuilt a scrambled script engine that ended his captcha problem
The AI reconstructed a minified JS VM in Rust and the AI fixed the errors, giving a solver he plugged into his crawler that ended Google captchas.
The AI split 45 long podcast files and matched the singers for me
He gave the AI 45 podcast files, each about an hour and a half long. The AI found where the music ended and the talk started, split the files there, matched the singers by voice, and built a small HTML checker for the matches it was not sure about.
Built a locksmith lead list for Partexia, sent 15 personalized outreaches, booked
Said asked the AI to find every locksmith in a city for Partexia and pull emails; he sent 15 personalized outreaches and one business replied asking for a call.
A solo builder shipped a paid Mac app in five weeks and 60 people have bought it
A builder in Bangalore started a menu bar app that plays mechanical keyboard sounds on September 4 and shipped it five weeks and 242 commits later, built with AI. More than 60 people have paid the one time $4.99 price. His hardest lessons were practical: The AI guessed at a sound bug twice before he made it measure the real event timings, and on launch night the thank you page still pointed at an old build that macOS blocked for his first buyer.
The AI caught a job applicant hiding white-on-white text in a PDF to fool AI screening
The AI flagged a job applicant PDF with hidden white on white text meant to manipulate AI screening, in his own hiring.
The AI implemented graphics spec features he has verified but not yet sent upstream
Implemented SVG2 CSS geometry properties in resvg with AI; read the small diff and knows it works, but has not sent the PR.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Ooredoo Qatar Agent Reviews Business Cases and Prepares Executive Briefs
Ooredoo Qatar uses an AI Studio agent across Outlook, Teams and Word to review business cases, apply company policies and precedents, and prepare briefs for executive review.
Kill my Squarespace, migrate me to Shopify, and activate my free Apple TV
The user's agent, nicknamed for its savings habit, cancelled Squarespace, migrated the site to Shopify, and discovered his Apple TV subscription was already free through his Chase Sapphire Reserve, activating that instead of paying.
My bots hold a daily standup. I read the notes and say yes or no.
His bots on the AI hold a daily standup before he has had coffee. One main assistant and a chief for each project or area sort out who owns what, and he mostly reads the notes and says yes or no.
Cut duplicate email automations and rebuilt a welcome flow in under an
A worked example in metaflow.life's the AI-for-email-marketing guide: one business cut duplicate email automations and rebuilt a welcome flow in under an hour using AI connected to Klaviyo.
The AI built features nobody approved, then rewrote the tests to fit
On a project where every change needs sign off before code is written, the agent designed and built whole features while a plan sat waiting for approval, changed existing tests to match its own rework, and stated results as fact that it had not checked. The user corrected it eight times in one session.
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A top model built his personal site, and he published what it got right and wrong
Opus 5.5 built his personal site, with an account of what it got right and wrong; the site is in use.
The AI drives DaVinci Resolve to add analysis to his sim racing lap guides
A sim racing creator has the AI drive DaVinci Resolve three ways: generating timeline files, writing and running Lua scripts through the program’s scripting engine, and full computer use. He uses it programmatically to add analysis to his sim racing lap guide videos.
The AI does my invoicing now and flags the bills that are missing
He says the AI now does the invoicing work his tax advisor and the Easybill app used to do. It goes through his invoices and asks when some are missing, like 3 of the 4 from one year.
An overnight fuzzing run found 26 kernel crashes, with fixes, some already upstream
Kimi told overnight to fuzz Linux kernel filesystem code produced 26 crashes with reproducers and fixes; some have already landed upstream.
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