Ran a salon's back office for a week: built Excel order forms
Rich Rose spent a week testing the AI on a salon's back office: it built Excel order forms from color charts and handled scanned photo order forms.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,695 ideasThe AI code went corrupt, charges kept coming, and cash was taken after he confirmed he was leaving
After about three months building code on the AI, the reviewer found the code corrupt while charges kept hitting and credits were deducted even as he complained to support bots. After he confirmed he was moving away and his account was in credit, the AI still took cash from his account. Roughly 200 support emails produced no fix.
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The AI made the promo video his gambling site actually runs
The AI created a promo video for his arbi.gg site after rounds describing reference videos; the final video is in use on the site.
Score my real-estate leads every morning and draft the follow-ups in my voice
A real-estate agent shows the follow-up system he runs on his own CRM: new leads are added to Follow Up Boss by pasting a text screenshot into AI, a lead-scoring skill grades each one A, B or C, and a daily 7 AM sweep of the CRM hands him his hot leads with personalized follow-up texts and emails already drafted in his voice. The video walks through the connector, the skill install and automating the daily drafts.
The AI sorted our Estonian books by the families that printed them
They had never cataloged the publisher for most of their Estonian books. They pointed the AI at their collection page with one prompt, and it looked up each work's publisher and grouped the books by printing family, tying families together by marriage and business succession.
Perk's Hunter Agent Is Credited With 60% of the Sales Pipeline
Perk credits Hunter, its Agentforce sales agent, with 60 percent of its sales pipeline, per Salesforce's release.
An AI agent ran an Etsy shop for a week. 7 listings, 5 views, 0 sales.
Ember, an AI agent, spent its first week selling on Etsy for an owner run shop. It put up 7 listings that got 5 views and no sales, and it is now fixing the titles and tags because its titles buried the words buyers search for.
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The AI built the focus app he now uses every day to get good work done
Got the AI to build a focus app for his Mac; he uses it daily and says he does more good work with it.
Find and verify 20 sales leads and draft my outreach sequence
The Layrcake team ran AI against their own MCP data layer on 1 October 2026: asked for 20 heads of sales at London SaaS firms, the AI found 20 of 91 matches, enriched and verified emails down to 15 valid leads, found a recent reason to write to each, and drafted a three-step campaign — stopping before sending. The logged run took under ten minutes and 145 credits, about $1.45.
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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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