My AI posts to 7 channels while I sleep
He connects an AI to his posting app with one key. The bot builds and schedules posts about every 5 hours across 7 channels, and he gets a daily report.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,665 ideasOpenAI deleted my dot's VM and hours of work were gone
A person's OpenAI dot could not push its work to GitHub. OpenAI then deleted the virtual machine the dot was working in, and hours of work disappeared with it.
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Cross-posted top 20 Instagram reels to other platforms with dedupe check, then
Food creator Careese (someone) asked her AI avatar 'kwin' to solve the pain of manual cross-posting. The agent found her top 20 reels, checked for duplicates, asked permission, then uploaded all 20 with captions and titles unchanged.
The AI wrote yesterday's posts for my couples app and posted them too
He gave the AI a reference sheet with his taste for marketing his couples app. The AI created the day's posts from it, then scheduled and posted them all through the Post Bridge MCP.
An electrician's AI receptionist answered 6 calls while he was on site, and 4 turned into booked jobs
Robert Brown of RB Electrical Services uses an AI receptionist that answers calls while he is out on jobs. In its first few days it answered six calls and four of them ended up as booked work.
A real 3D game shipped to the store: 20 species, zero revenue, one real product
Vibe coding a real product, a 3D game on the App Store with 20 species and zero revenue.
The AI runs weekly SEO and analytics checks on all my sites and apps
He set up the AI cron jobs that run weekly SEO and analytics checks on all of his sites and apps. He says the checks are working well and keep him consistent.
Spark's Competitor Research Doc Mixed Up Prices and Cited a Retail Blog
Asked to compare the AI and the AI with citations in a saved Google Doc, Spark produced the table and doc but contradicted its own pricing figures and cited an electronics retailer's blog for software pricing. Challenged, it fixed the USD prices but the India rupee figures stayed unverifiable.
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The AI rebuilt the Jupyter kernel I use every day
He used Deno's Jupyter kernel all the time for exploring TypeScript libraries and automations, and was going to miss it. He pointed the AI at the problem and the result is cdp-kernel, Deno's Jupyter kernel extracted to run notebooks on any V8 runtime, now on GitHub.
Run my businesses by voice from the driver's seat
Florist and travel operator Tye Gordon runs his businesses through Morgan, an AI chief-of-staff agent he directs by voice while driving rideshare. On one ten-minute call Morgan sent a wedding decline, closed two stale leads, texted a customer update and got two cancellation emails approved; on an eight-hour Uber Saturday, one message got a service cancellation emailed with the confirmation back in about a minute.
Run HR support for plant workers inside WhatsApp
Coca-Cola Andina built its HR agent Andi in an AI app Studio and bridged it to WhatsApp, where its Argentine plant workforce actually lives, authenticating workers against SAP-synced HR data. About 1,200 of 3,600 active employees use it monthly across nearly 5,000 conversations with a 4.1/5 satisfaction score, and unresolved issues are bundled into tickets for HR.
Agents write most of the code for a solo blockchain project
A solo developer is building an independent Rust blockchain from a white paper. AI coding agents write most of the code under his direction, and AI models review it. An agent implemented the fix for a stake counting overflow in the consensus check, and the developer decides what merges and runs the tests.
The AI’s plot said 57 down. The picture showed thousands. I caught it by eye.
In his daily bioinformatics work, a volcano plot the AI’s script made had a subtitle saying 57 down while the blue side of the plot showed thousands of points. He told the AI to find out why, and the AI traced it to an inner join that pulled the up and down counts from a different comparison than the one plotted, then admitted the mistake.
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I build tools for my kids' school in days, not weeks
He volunteers building tools for his kids' school and activities. Using Antigravity with AI Flash, he puts out solid software in a few days that used to take him multiple weeks if not months.
Running a one person marketplace in Japan, he shipped four Mac apps and a web product with AI doing the release work
He runs an online marketplace in Japan that he started in 2004, with around 300,000 members, and he is clear the AI gets no credit for that. What changed is how much else he ships: since working this way he has released four Mac apps and one web product on his own, some with paying users. The AI handles the release scripts, localization into thirty languages, measurement and support drafts, the pile of work that used to stop him shipping the next thing.
Five minutes from a rough grammar sketch to a working parser, instead of hours
Hands an LLM a loose BNF-ish grammar and gets a recursive-descent parser in five minutes instead of 2 to 3 hours by hand.
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The AI built our chronicle and compiled its people register
Their chronicle puts every document next to the key events of 1989 and 1990, with filters by country, type and place. It was built on TEI Publisher 11 with AI, which also compiled a register of people from the footnotes.
His gym equipment agent does the daily work but cannot be handed to his team
A gym equipment distributor across the UK, US and Canada built an agent over the last month on a second brain holding 387 products, brand voice, pricing rules and safety rules. It does morning inbox triage, freight quotes, reporting and a live CRM. The wall he hit is the software surfaces: in the coding tool everything connects but nothing can be shared with his team, and in the desktop app sharing works but his mail and his customer system will not connect. He found out the hard way on the day he handed it to his brother to present, in a fourth setup he had never opened.
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Agent ran cold spray simulations and chose next runs
An AI powered agent ran OpenFOAM cold spray simulations without a person doing each manual step. It read deposit results, spotted failed runs from solver logs, and decided the next simulation, with an animation made for each run.
The AI turns each of my wife's photo shoots into a blog post
Mark Mason says the AI watches his wife's Instagram for new photo shoots. When she posts one, it writes a blog post in her voice, saves it in WordPress and emails her the link.
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