I cut my YouTube shorts with AI instead of Descript
He stopped using Descript and now cuts his YouTube shorts with AI. He says the quality of the shorts has gone up since the switch.
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Work
Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,669 ideasThe AI checked our Stripe and Revolut charges. We were paying 4,633 euros a year for free transfers.
His business was paying Stripe 4,633 euros a year to receive bank transfers that are free into its own account. He had the AI go through 12 months of Revolut and Stripe charges.
€4,633a year
An agent turned a small PDF and OCR script into 189 files of over-engineered code
Agent rewrote his simple PDF download + the AI OCR script into 189 files of over-engineered code.
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After a week of the AI editing my videos, it is how I publish now
A week into letting AI agent edit his videos, the workflow has stuck. Agent edited video is now part of how he publishes.
Run my whole company on scheduled agent shifts
A digital-health CEO reports his businesses have no full-time developers, DevOps, designers, analysts or product manager: scheduled AI agent shifts handle deploys, an agent-built CRM, per-business-line email sorting, meeting scheduling, technical support and publishing news four times a day. The work runs on three $200 AI subscriptions — $600 a month against roughly $38,500 a month at US median pay for the replaced roles.
My agent runs my startup posts. It stopped waiting for my OK.
He has let an AI agent run his startup for 12 days. For 8 days it waited for his OK before posting, then yesterday he stopped making it wait, and by evening it had posted on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.
My AI keeps TokenPlans.dev up to date on a schedule
His AI rechecks all 31 providers and 89 plans on TokenPlans.dev on a schedule. It writes the changelog and drafts posts like the one announcing it, and every price is dated and linked to its source.
The AI filled a work machine with 90 GB of screenshots and needless tests
The AI created thousands of screenshots and artifacts and thousands of unnecessary validation tests, eating 90GB on a work Windows VM.
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The AI studied his old workflows and built him a tool that cut token spend by about 80 percent
Got the AI to analyse his past dynamic workflows and build a composing tool and standard agent scripts, cutting token spend about 80 percent and workflow runs from 5 to 6 hours to 20 to 40 minutes.
Build a CRM for a company losing 70% of its quotes in scattered WhatsApp chats
Builder Omar Villalobos says a client was losing 70% of its quotes because everything lived in scattered WhatsApp chats, so he built three parts with AI: a WhatsApp-linked form that auto-updates a CRM instead of manual copying, a pipeline dashboard showing $1.28M at stake with follow-ups due and won deals, and an ROI calculator showing a client their investment, monthly gain and payback. No recovery of the lost quotes is claimed yet.
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