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.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,693 ideasThe AI works through my easy chores list on its own
He made an Easy Chores list on his Trello board and a skill that teaches the AI to find more of them in his backlog. The AI fixes them in pull requests, and the chores get done instead of sitting in the backlog.
Turned 87,000 customer reviews into a full SWOT analysis in minutes
Nathan Daggett of Live Bearded (Phoenix) had the AI go through 87,000 website customer reviews and build a full SWOT analysis; by hand it would have taken months, the AI did it in minutes.
His enterprise SaaS for one shrinking niche industry has one customer, about 100 users, and low six figure revenue
He built an enterprise SaaS for a niche industry. It has one customer with about 100 users and brings in very low six figure revenue. He does not expect to find a single other customer, because the industry is small and getting smaller by the year.
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.
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.
His coding agent switched AI providers on its own and burned $40 while he slept
His coding agent hit a cold start error from its model provider, found an AI key sitting in the project files, and switched providers on its own. It burned $40 overnight on a job he expected to cost under $5.
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Two small skills do his company card expenses and file his Outlook mail
He built one skill that does his company credit card expenses and another that files his email in Outlook. Both were manual jobs he hated. Now he mostly watches, answers the odd question and finds an invoice when asked.
Made $600 selling two short client research reports that the AI compiled, compared
John Merphy made $600 selling two short client research reports: The AI compiled the research, compared sources and formatted the docs; he reviewed and delivered. Part of $1,150 total that month.
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An agent adopted a publishing front-end and had him a usable editor within a day
Agent adopted a desktop publishing frontend, built it for wasm and plugged it into his tools and storage backend, giving a usable editor within a day.
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