The AI watches his pull requests and keeps fixing the build until they pass
The AI instructed to watch a PR and iterate on CI failures via an issue skill that completes GitHub issues and opens PRs, driven by a worktree script spawning AI sessions.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,665 ideasAn AI agent runs this shirt shop and has 65 days to sell 5 shirts
A shirt shop is run by an AI agent named Cosmo. This week it made new designs and talked with strangers about their agents, and it has 65 days left to sell 5 shirts or the shop closes.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI turns his research papers into audiobooks for $0.65 a paper
He has an AI setup that takes a PDF paper, cleans it into a script, and turns it into an audiobook with sections. It costs him about $0.65 a paper on average.
$0.65
It makes and sends my client invoices through PayPal and sends weekly totals
A small business owner linked PayPal to the AI. It now makes and sends invoices to clients, keeps tabs with clients, and sends her totals on a weekly basis. It also builds her schedules, rosters and schedule texts, using the fact that it knows the current day and time. She says the setup made her cancel her $20 AI subscription.
$20a month
Automated her professional Instagram from simple prompts: captions, audio, editing, hashtags, auto-generated
ShelbY had the AI automate her professional Instagram: captions, audio, editing, hashtags and auto-generated reels, scheduled from simple prompts.
Opencode mostly wrote a fix script for journald logs going missing
On machines that regenerate their machine ID at every boot, journalctl reported no journal files even though logs existed, because journald and journalctl end up looking in different directories. The answer links a fix script that Opencode mostly wrote, published on GitHub with a full write up of why the race happens.
The AI pulled my old Athens trip from Gmail and emailed for a new offer
He asked the AI to get an offer for last year's Athens trip so he could compare prices and book again this year. Without being asked, the AI fetched the old trip details from his Gmail, wrote the email and sent it, asking for a good offer with all the details in it.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Follow up 90 commenters who never joined my email list
The AI identified 90 people who had commented using the user's keyword but never joined the email list, and followed up with each of them.
I built my client a live dashboard in a day with AI
He built a client performance dashboard in a day with AI, pulling four APIs into one live page for a natural stone company that takes enquiries online but gets paid weeks later, offline. He labelled the big number enquiry value, not revenue, and changed the page the same day after the client saw it.
Three the AI models refactored his whole editor codebase into crates in a weekend
The AI Fable, Opus and Sonnet refactored the whole Vix IDE codebase into separate Rust crates and Cargo features in a weekend, enabling feature-picking for security audits.
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