The AI fixed his Kotlin software to work with his Java version in half a day
Spent half a day coaxing the AI to fix Kotlin software so it worked with his Java version, work he says would have taken weeks without AI.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,665 ideasShortlist workshop venues and audit the seating catch
In an October 1, 2026 test, a Cue agent returned three Manhattan workshop venues in about four minutes with capacity, price, accessibility and cancellation fields plus source links, flagging unconfirmed availability. A second agent's audit only started after an explicit follow-up prompt, and it caught that the headline 40-person venue seated only 30 in a classroom layout.
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After a week of the AI editing my videos, it is how I publish now
A week into letting AI agent edit his videos, the workflow has stuck. Agent edited video is now part of how he publishes.
Non-coder runs her side business on 10 recurring the AI jobs, about 95 runs a week
A Japanese note creator who cannot code describes (Oct 14, 2026) running her side business on the AI: 10 recurring scheduled jobs, roughly 95 runs a week over seven weeks, covering number tracking and logging, draft writing, summaries sent to herself, and timed posts. Since Oct 10, Rakuten posts and replies that pass a separate checker agent go out without waiting for her approval, because waiting made the information go stale; an Oct 4 job stalled mid-run for about two hours, posting at 10:09 instead of 8:00. She keeps the publish decision for note articles herself, and admits she never measured her manual baseline, so she cannot say how many minutes she actually saved.
A Belize travel agent automated client itineraries, invoices and CRM updates with AI
Travel agent Catherine Garcia says the AI now pulls deals from 501pulse.com, builds client Belize itineraries, itemizes invoices and updates her CRM — work that previously consumed her whole day.
The AI ran on our ad server all night and found bugs we had missed
He let the AI UltraCode run overnight on their triggered ad server. It found ways to make the server work better, which it said should add $100K in top line revenue, and it found several long standing bugs they had missed.
One subagent cleaned up with a glob and deleted the work of the other three
Four the AI subagents were working in parallel in one session, each with its own temporary directories in a shared scratchpad. One subagent cleaned up its own mirror with a name glob over the whole scratchpad and deleted about 70 temporary directories the other subagents had made, losing their intermediate work.
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The AI’s systems tools are in real use, one reverse engineered from a camera's wire protocol
The AI wrote Zig tools in real use, including a wasm utility integrated into a site and reverse engineering a USB wire protocol for an industrial camera driver.
Monitored 14 local community Facebook groups and alerted the tradesman whenever anyone
A middle-aged plumber wearing a Vic's Plumbing shirt addresses trades business owners who get work from Facebook groups, saying they will have nothing to sell without this tool. He programmed the AI to watch his 14 local-area community groups for service requests; each alert carries the post link so he can go directly to engage, answer questions, and offer his phone number.
A bot fixes his team's production errors overnight, every night
A bot fixes the team's production errors overnight, on an ongoing basis.
My agent applied for data entry jobs, got one, and now does it for about $200 a week
Answering a thread about saving and making money, he says he had the AI look online for part time data entry work and found a few positions paying $15 an hour for remote work. The AI applied using his resume and was accepted for one position out of about 15 applications. The AI does the job while he works at his actual job during the day. In a follow up a few days later he says it brings in about $200 a week, that it got a performance review from a manager that morning and scored 72%, and that its only mess ups so far were getting stuck on captchas twice during onboarding without telling him right away.
$200a week
Find why my 90-night booking priced below breakeven and counter at $7,450
Rental host Jacob Weaver says a 90-night booking request came in at $4,762, below his $2,300/month breakeven. Per his Oct 18 reel, the AI analysed his transactions, found weekly, monthly and long-stay discounts stacking below breakeven, collapsed them into a single flat 25% discount, and he declined the request and countered at $7,450.
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The AI drafted my dad's parking ticket appeal and saved him £100
His dad got a private parking ticket for staying 15 minutes too long at his doctor's surgery. The AI drafted the POPLA appeal, it cited the Equalities Act, and his dad saved £100.
£100
One founder signed up about 30 clients in a month and lets the AI do most of the work
Josh Pigford started FirstIndex, a service that gets companies found on Google and in an AI app answers, at $1,000 a month. Within a month it was at about $570,000 a year in recurring revenue with about 30 clients, and the AI does most of the delivery work.
$570,000
Three the AI models refactored his whole editor codebase into crates in a weekend
The AI Fable, Opus and Sonnet refactored the whole Vix IDE codebase into separate Rust crates and Cargo features in a weekend, enabling feature-picking for security audits.
The AI replies to comments on all my platforms every three hours
Mufti Hassan set the AI to reply to comments across all his social platforms. The video chapter says the replies run every three hours.
Run a marketing bot tasked with growing social reach 2% a week
The same solo founder gave an AI marketing bot a standing goal of growing PromptBase's social reach 2% per week, with freedom to experiment. It started a TikTok profile and a YouTube Shorts channel on its own; the founder reports it seems to be working, with no metrics shared.
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Prepare my contracting invoices and draft my outgoing emails
A contractor onboarded Instinct through a WhatsApp chat that simply asked what he had been putting off; it now prepares his contracting invoices and drafts his outgoing emails - the two admin jobs that used to pile up behind the actual work.
Every 30 minutes it picks the top open issue in my repo and leaves a draft pull request by morning
A builder runs AI as a night shift for his side project. Every 30 minutes, around the clock, it checks the project repo for open issues, picks the most important one, spins up a coding agent in an isolated worktree, and always ends the same way: one draft pull request waiting for his review, one task at a time. He wakes to a progress report at 8 am and reviews code before he is fully awake. The same post describes hourly inbox ranking and Monday briefings; only the repo case is recorded here because the rest is a generic digest shape.
The AI drafts the reply to my weekly ad report on its own
An outside agency runs some of his advertising and sends a report with the numbers every week. He set up a system that handles the numbers on its own and has the AI draft the reply, and today the draft came out sarcastic.
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