The AI wrote a small PR and, unasked, set up live HTTPS testing for it
The AI wrote a minor pull request for an open source webapp and on its own suggested and actually used Cloudflare Quick Tunnels to test over HTTPS.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,668 ideasThe AI overwrote his site security config without checking it existed; the rules that kept his internal site private were wiped
In auto mode, the AI wrote a config file through the shell without checking whether it already existed. The file, staticwebapp.config.json, already existed and held the security rules for his site. The overwrite wiped them completely. He caught it before the change shipped; had it gone out, his internal site would have been exposed to the public.
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Script, voice and animate my videos with AI (replacing a $480/mo editor)
Duggan says he replaced a $480/mo Upwork video editor with an AI pipeline: The AI scripts the video, ElevenLabs provides the voice, and Remotion/HyperFrames handles the animation. He says the reel itself was produced this way.
$480a month
The AI researched Etsy's best-selling Wix templates to plan a resellable product line
In 'Using the AI for Business' Ep. 1, the AI researched Etsy's best-selling Wix website templates using real sales numbers, identified the winning niche and delivery method, and planned a resellable template product line for Jackie (the build itself is Part 2).
The AI deployed his code with an API key he handed it, and it ran great
Had the AI deploy code to Control Plane with a supplied API key and it ran great; a later attempt at a real landing page was disappointing.
His small businesses run on separate AI agents for inbox, outreach and quotes, and nothing goes out without his phone approval
He runs his own small businesses with AI agents. Each job has its own agent with its own instructions file: one triages the inbox, one handles outreach, one prepares quotes. The agents only draft; he approves every email and quote from his phone before it goes out. A brief arrives at a fixed time every morning with the overnight replies, what is waiting on him, and the follow-ups for the day, and it replaced his own daily check-in. When he corrects something, the correction goes into a shared notes file that every agent reads, so he only has to say it once.
Send my resume to jobs for me — service sent 150 applications full of invented facts about me
A Lowyat forum poster says a resume-sending service (a 'the AI jobs' site he stresses is not Microsoft's the AI) submitted 150 applications in his name stuffed with fabrications: fluency in Hindi and Punjabi and several other languages, advanced-software proficiency he doesn't have, a nickname 'ALEX', pronouns listed as 'myself', a reference named 'Jane Doe', and a claim that he is a veteran — plus childish cover-letter filler ('I am good at customer service, I am good at talking to people'), including to a high-risk pregnancy hotline. He calls the result absolutely humiliating.
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Scanned invoices in Drive get reconciled for billing errors and missing credits
His business scans every invoice into a Google Drive folder. The AI reconciles them there: checking they were billed correctly, that credits for returned goods actually arrived, and that there is no slippage. He says it is far faster than reconciling by hand.
The AI runs my wife's shop back office and replaced a $600 a month ads manager
For his wife's business, the AI reads hundreds of emails a day and prints her a short brief of what matters, files the rest, updates her website, runs her Square and her Google Ads, and prints a weekly report every Saturday night. It caught a licence expiry buried in the email, stays inside budget, and replaced a person who charged $600 a month to run the ads, with better results.
$600a month
The AI found one slow call eating 81 percent of his emulator's frame time
Working with AI on his NeoBox emulator, he found setjmp was eating 81 percent of frame time, switched to _setjmp for a roughly 130x per-call gain, and the fix was merged upstream in Geolith.
Meeting transcripts become Slack recaps, and the AI offers to take his tasks on
His meetings are recorded with Fireflies. On a set routine, the AI takes each transcript and posts a Slack recap to everyone who was in the meeting, with the action items and who owns each one. A second routine scans his meetings for tasks that fall to him and works out which ones the AI could do instead, then offers to run them in separate sessions.
The AI ports his business software from DOS-era BASIC to Linux, right first try
The AI automated porting business software from QuickBASIC on DOS to Tcl on Linux, usually right first try, to add features management needed.
Build my print shop's ERP and inspection system under ITAR constraints
An additive-manufacturing business used its $100/month AI subscription to build a custom ERP, an inspection system, and a build-analysis system - then started moving the whole stack onto a $15,000 offline Mac Studio, because customer and government work sits under NDA and ITAR and the finished system can never touch the internet.
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The AI linked thousands of work drawings into one spreadsheet
His team took over a big job with thousands of drawings, and each drawing had three drawing numbers that did not link to each other. He uploaded all the PDFs and the AI built a spreadsheet that tied the numbers together.
His AI skill turns plans into a Jira epic with a ticket per milestone
The AI skill plan-to-epic creates a Jira epic and a ticket per milestone, used to persist agent context and to show his work.
I built a live web app for a local business in one sitting
She pulled 50 local business leads for $0.44 and used AI to pick the ones with good reviews and a weak web presence. Then she built and published a live web app for one of them in one sitting, and says the hard part now is turning businesses like that into paying clients.
His AI setup routes tasks from chat and tickets to the right repos and opens the PRs
Cyrus and the AI system routes Telegram and Linear tasks to repos by label and opens PRs for review; he is more hands off across multiple projects.
Keep my launch video moving across Work, the AI and chat without me sequencing it
In Futurepedia's early-access test, the Dot coordinated a Dots launch video: it requested three intro versions in an AI app, selected one, sent it to an AI motion-graphics skill and started a thumbnail in another chat. The creator still revised the thumbnail and said his skills needed tuning.
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Furniture flipper runs AI as a Marketplace scout: dressers and nightstands under
A full-time furniture flipper (six figures/year) configured the AI to monitor Facebook Marketplace within a 20-mile radius of ZIP 88310 for dressers and nightstands under $150. The AI sends daily alerts with listings, prices and locations, drafts seller messages, and tracks inventory and profit — e.g.
$150
Plain the AI moved his repo in 20 minutes while a senior spent weeks building agent skills
Threw plain the AI at a git repo move with no skills or tools and finished in 20 minutes while multitasking, while a senior spent 6 to 8 weeks building the AI skills for the same job and moved only 5 repos.
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