The AI gathered my training materials and put them on the web
He had the AI gather his SPARQL training materials and present them on a website in a way that is easier to engage with. The site is live on the SIB Swiss GitHub pages.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,669 ideasThe AI turned my pacing calendar into a lesson with questions
A teacher asked the AI to make a presentation from her pacing calendar. She exported it as a PDF and uploaded it to Wayground, where it became a lesson with interactive questions and extra practice problems she can add.
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.
I used AI to fix a data entry gap at work
A man with no coding experience used AI to generate a VBA script in Excel. The script fixed a manual data entry gap at his work and took the risk of typos and misreads out of the job.
The AI handled my Datadog alert and pinged the right Slack group
He had the AI answer a Slack notification from a Datadog monitor. The AI checked the issue through Datadog MCP, found the right Slack group to ping, and sent a summary of what needed fixing.
The AI designed my Instagram carousels. The first one got 4,500 views and 89 saves.
He runs a five level system where the AI Design makes his Instagram carousels, from a basic prompt up to a full design system with AI generated images and a looping video cover. The first carousel made this way reached 4,500 views with 89 saves.
My AI assistant emailed me a panel briefing and I thought it came from the organizers
Minutes before a public panel, he got an email naming the other speakers, their specialties and where his voice fit. Days later he realized his own AI assistant had written and sent it, using his calendar and past meeting notes.
Running a one person marketplace in Japan, he shipped four Mac apps and a web product with AI doing the release work
He runs an online marketplace in Japan that he started in 2004, with around 300,000 members, and he is clear the AI gets no credit for that. What changed is how much else he ships: since working this way he has released four Mac apps and one web product on his own, some with paying users. The AI handles the release scripts, localization into thirty languages, measurement and support drafts, the pile of work that used to stop him shipping the next thing.
Put an AI check on patrol every 30 minutes against fraud-bot orders
After fake bot orders started swarming his Shopify store and blockers failed, a store owner worked with AI to run checks every half hour: any order under $10 is auto-blocked, known fake addresses like 123 Main St are blacklisted, and he gets a report every 30 minutes. The bots still try, but far less often.
After 13 unpaid pull requests, his agent now spots bounty scams first
He submitted 13 pull requests to projects advertising GitHub bounties and was paid for none of them. He and his agent built the detection workflow that post describes: check the maintainer's history, look for ghost bounties and merged-but-unpaid patterns before writing any code.
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