Every call's action items now go straight to my Gmail tasks
She connected Granola to the AI. Now the action items from every call go straight to her Gmail tasks.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,669 ideasA one-afternoon prototype showed his product idea was a dead end and saved him months
The AI knocked out a side-project prototype in an afternoon, which immediately showed the product interaction was a dead end and saved months of further building.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
His bot spends leftover agent tokens writing pull requests from his task lists
His RemainderBot uses excess the AI and the AI tokens to write PRs from his goals and task lists, 111 PRs done including customer call prep, runs as a cron job (own-use separable from the Show HN tool post).
AI agent booked his Tatkal train ticket end to end
He set GPT-6 Astra to start at 10:59:50, just before Tatkal booking opened, and the agent ran the whole IRCTC booking itself. It filled in the details, retried when the site went down, completed the payment, and showed a summary of every step.
The AI tells me about new plays every week
He could not find any service that tracks new plays by his 30 or so favorite playwrights. Now the AI checks and tells him every week.
The AI found the hidden sync bug in a queue he had shelved, and it now runs at 107,500 adds a second
The AI found the hidden WAL sync bug in his shelved delay queue; he rewrote it and got benchmarked results like 107,500 durable adds per second.
A team of agents made 300 commits and burned his weekly limit in 2.5 days
A team of Opus 5.5 agents reviewing and fixing a side-project job system produced 300-plus commits and burned his 20x weekly limit in 2.5 days.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
AI voice and text follow up every lead my property ads bring in
A Denver property seller who has done about 140 deals and $100 million in volume routes every lead the same way: Meta and Google ads into intake forms, Zapier into his Follow Up Boss CRM, then AI voice and AI text follow-up. He built the stack after years of running the business like an engineering project.
A bookkeeping file sorter over 40 companies logs every move with a hash
He runs AI against real client bookkeeping, sorting thousands of PDFs into folders for about 40 companies. Before any file moves, the system writes a log line with the current path, the destination, a sha256 hash of the contents and the path to put it back. Nothing is deleted; files go to a dated quarantine folder, and a file can only be cleared when its hash already exists elsewhere.
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.
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