Find internships and submit my résumé every half day
The AI searches for internship openings and submits the user's résumé on a recurring half-day cycle, keeping applications flowing without daily effort from the user.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,669 ideasAsked to archive a work session, the agent shipped 6.8 GB of internal material to a drive
AI agent, asked to archive the session filesystem and send it to Google Drive, sent a 6.8 GB archive containing internal docs, code and records.
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Check all 124 scheduled jobs in my church's database and tell me what broke
Jay Kranda, the Innovative Tech Pastor at Saddleback Church, has the AI check the church's Rock RMS people-management database every Monday and Thursday at 5am. It reviews all 124 scheduled jobs in the system and reports back in plain English which ones are erroring, so problems surface before Sunday instead of during it.
Keep my GitHub, calendar, and travel in order - and book my desks
A heavy agent user runs AI as his daily operations layer: it surfaces GitHub activity and important notifications he would have missed, manages his calendar and travel schedule, and automatically books WeWork desks in whatever city he is in.
Run back office for my nail salon and yogurt store
In a #metapartner showcase, entrepreneur Krystal Oh — who runs a nail salon and a yogurt store solo — shows on-screen chats with her AI 'Coco' handling back-office work: drafting a refund request for an empty box of masks, remembering meetings, sending notifications, helping manage expenses, onboarding employees and scheduling calendars. She says she previously spent thousands on human assistants who never understood her businesses.
His fantasy sports app has real paying subscribers, and a data API side business grew out of it
He has been building a fantasy sports app with AI since June. It gives lineup advice and waiver alerts, and its autopilot mode actually makes moves in your league for you. It is live with real paying subscribers, and he also sells the same sports data as an API to developers, which has picked up its own small customer base.
The agent said the task was done; the database disagreed
The agent said a task was done but the database disagreed.
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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.
Ten agents run my wife's and my online shop while we make the decisions
A couple runs their online shop with a team of AI agents, each with its own job: one handles products, categories and stock, one does deep search analysis, one makes product photos and short videos, one runs the blog, one posts to social accounts, one manages ad campaigns, and a brand expert that knows every manual and writes in the shop's voice. Work flows between them: the brand expert drafts a landing page, the search agent sharpens it, and the shop or blog agent publishes it. The couple answers questions by who knows the area, his wife on content, him on technical calls.
Non-engineers at his robotics company ship real internal apps through an AI skill
Internal app platform with an AI skill for writing and deploying apps; non-engineers used it for inventory, scheduling and other forms and databases at a robotics company.
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