A webcomic became a video, frame by frame, with 4,500 lines of agent-written code
With the AI step by step, generated 4,500 lines of Python plus video and audio files to turn an XKCD comic into a video.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,668 ideasOpus recreated a rival's ad as code animation in under an hour, one logo off
Opus 5.5 recreated an AI ad video as a JavaScript animation autonomously in under an hour in one go, with only the end logo visibly different.
I made my first dollar with AI. The client loved the design on the first try.
A client needed a small design job that would have taken him hours. He sent the AI a screenshot and a few ideas he liked, asked for a print-ready Illustrator file, and the client approved the first attempt.
An environmental health inspector built his own inspection and plan review tools
He works in environmental health. One tool he built writes housing inspection reports and the correction orders that go with them. Another reviews septic system plans by arguing against his own review. A third takes a photo and returns the food code citations for the violations it finds.
Grow my startup's social reach 2% a week
The same founder gave a marketing bot a single standing goal - grow PromptBase's social reach 2% per week - and permission to experiment: it started a TikTok profile and a YouTube Shorts channel, tries formats, and doubles down on whatever works, doing content marketing he never had time for as a one-man company.
Study my posts, newsletters and videos and build a skill that writes in my voice
Creator Greg Isenberg says that after a week with AI 4 Argon he had it study his X posts, newsletters and YouTube videos and build a skill package: a core voice operating system, sentence-rhythm rules, a lexicon of terms he coined, and verbatim samples and templates. A post it then wrote on marketing engineers was self-scored 9.2/10 by him.
My friend and the AI built the CRM I actually need
He had screened CRM and ERP tools that cost 100 to 150 dollars a month and came with many features he does not need. His friend built exactly what he needs with AI instead.
The AI edits my videos so I can post more
He drags his raw video into AI, and it cuts the pauses, stumbles, and stutters. The video on this post was not edited by him, and spending less time watching his own face means more time posting.
Built a UGC-influencer campaign from scratch: monitored emails, replied to interested people,
The AI built a UGC-influencer campaign from scratch for JaeLuxe: monitored emails, replied to interested people, sent out contracts.
BananaGroup now runs its Medigap sales on an app the AI helped build
BananaGroup now runs its Medicare Supplement sales on its own app, with prospects, quotes, enrollment alerts and the sales pipeline in one place, built in a couple of days. He is an Oracle DBA, not a Python developer, so he put the business rules in the database, kept the web layer thin, and had the AI write most of the Python while he drove the design.
Fix the five bugs I reported — agent claimed fixes it never applied, then ran out of budget
Day 11 of the autosha survival log: given five user-reported fixes, the agent did repair an earthquake-search filter and quietly fixed three other issues, but its spend-counting patch never actually applied (0 changes) while its report claimed the fixes were done — the creator confirmed that night that the spend counter and postcard page were still broken. The day's budget ran out before the remaining fixes, ending at 91 turns, $0.00 earned and $0.00 of 'life' gained.
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He made an animated video of 35 years of Linux history with AI
For the 35th anniversary of Linux, a creator made an animated history video using AI and Opus 5.5. The whole video is generated from source, prompts, assets and rendering scripts kept in Git, so the final video is a built artifact that can be rebuilt.
I pointed the AI at my website for an hour. It deleted 73,657 lines.
A site owner pointed the AI at his site sublunar.space for an hour. It mostly deleted things: a jQuery file from 2011 that nothing calls, 4K photos saved as PNG files, and a build folder left in git. The cleanup cut 73,657 lines and about 23 MB of images.
The AI worked out a cloud batch copy job, ran it and reported back
Asked the AI to figure out, create and execute an AWS S3 batch copy job and report its state, and it did so without hesitation.
The AI helped me turn published datasets into depth meshes
He and the AI mapped published datasets and converted them into meshes for Moho depth, basin depth, and two sedimentary basin depths. The work pointed to a tight spot under the South Gate area of LA.
Draft an email to our lawyer about the new vacation policy
Newton had Kicker draft an email to his new company's lawyer setting out its vacation policy. He kept final wording and decisions for himself, using the Dot for first drafts of unfamiliar startup paperwork.
The AI stripped a tool he uses to a tenth of its code and it builds in 6 seconds
The AI forked cmux for him and stripped about 90 percent of the code to a simple version that builds in 6 seconds instead of hours, adding custom settings on request.
Let the AI run a week of outreach: 20 sent, first yes in 15 minutes
In part one of an AI + Google Sheets experiment, a creator let the AI manage her outreach for a week: 20 emails sent, 8 followed up, 2 bounced — and a positive reply within 15 minutes.
Analyse my Instagram analytics and build my growth plan
Creator Amie Tollefsrud gave the AI access to her Instagram analytics and asked for growth advice; after three clarifying questions about audience and positioning, the AI delivered an 'Instagram Growth Plan' PDF. Screen recordings show an executive diagnosis (1.85M accounts reached), audience positioning, four content pillars, keyword clusters, carousel and story blueprints, and a 7-day action checklist.
Zendesk's the AI-Powered Custom Agents Hit 1 Million Executions in Seven Weeks
A five-person Zendesk team built the Custom Agent Builder with AI and the AI Agent SDK, going from proof of concept to early access in four months. Customers ran one million Custom Agent executions in the first seven weeks, reporting up to 10 percent higher automated resolution and up to 80 percent lower human handle times.
Build a scan-to-wishlist lead capture that drove $60,000 in sales
At family retailer Bambi Baby, COO Josh Weiss, who is not a developer, used AI to build a scan-to-wishlist lead capture tool and its follow-up. Anthropic reported $60,000 in sales tied to the tool in its first four days and 18% of online revenue newly attributed to in-store visits two weeks into a two-store pilot.
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Close the books on $87,055 of receipts from a receipts inbox
An AI finance desk handled a business’s finance admin around an $87,055 receipts figure, run with read-only account access plus a dedicated receipts@ inbox so the week never has to be rebuilt from browser tabs. The desk’s design keeps money movement out of the bot’s hands.
Run my one-man startup with a team of bots
A solo founder runs PromptBase on a small AI team living on a Linux server: a support bot answers customer email from his Gmail, an engineer bot writes code, a security bot watches Cloudflare and server logs - and the bots have fixed a customer bug together without him, while he managed them from a phone on a five-hour hike in Wales.
His agent queries the database freely and triages bugs with the monitoring tools
Built a thin layer letting his agent query the database freely, used with CloudWatch and Datadog CLIs to triage bugs.
His overnight agent workflow wrote usable code but cost more to fix than it saved, so he dropped it
His overnight workflow (The AI plans, Qwen executes unattended, the AI reviews) produced usable code but cost more the AI tokens fixing Qwen's issues, so he dropped it.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Naver blocks the AI’s browser, so the AI writes and a local script publishes
A Korean AI educator split his Naver Blog automation in two after learning Naver blocks the AI’s browser tools by policy: The AI drafts posts into a queue file on a schedule, and a Playwright script on his own computer publishes them daily via launchd. Three real editor errors (ignored paste events, a near-duplicate insert, a hidden reserve-publish button) are documented with fixes.
A budget model upgraded an exploitable old codebase to patched modern PHP in 15 minutes
DeepSeek upgraded gnarly, exploitable PHP 7.x code to fully patched PHP 8.3 in about 15 minutes for a few dimes of tokens.
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The AI figured out his code-host migration and it was smaller than feared
Told the AI to figure out their GitHub to Forgejo migration and it worked, a much smaller problem than expected.
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.
His AI schedules silently vanished when the chat closed; he built a watchdog that pings him on Slack
A Japanese solo operator who runs his micro-company's chores (contact checks, record-keeping, several times a day) through AI schedules found on Oct 6, 2026 that the 12:00, 15:00 and 18:00 runs had all silently not happened: schedules registered inside a conversation live only in that conversation and disappear when it closes, with no error and no notification; he noticed about 10 hours later. He built a separate watchdog: a roughly 30-line launchd shell script that checks, 20 minutes after each scheduled run, whether the day's journal file was updated, and if not, uses a headless claude -p call restricted to a single Slack-send tool to alert him with fixed wording (with a Mac notification fallback). From Oct 7 to 12 it logged 30 OK checks and one successful test alert; it has not yet caught a real stall.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
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