Work as the virtual assistant for my cleaning business
For a cleaning business, the AI manages contacts, drafts client messages, chases reviews and maintains the CRM, holding every outbound message for approval before it sends.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,691 ideasThe AI found the server login in my notes and saved me a midnight site visit
The AI and iDRAC saved him from a midnight trip to a site. GPT could not find the right credentials, but the AI found them in his notes, with some guessing.
Three blogs run by an agent stalled for three rounds on an AI review gate
A Korean content operation handed three channels (Naver blog, Threads, WordPress) to an AI agent publishing at 9:00, 13:00 and 17:00 daily, logged over Oct 15-18, 2026. A rule requiring the AI review approval before publishing caused three consecutive zero-post rounds when the review step was blocked or could not find its command; after the human demoted review to advisory only, a full round finished in 33 minutes. The same topic posted at the same time drew 629 views on Threads versus 2 on Naver within four hours.
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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.
AI wrote the script that let him type into his terminal from his phone
He wanted to type into a remote tmux session from his phone. The AI wrote a script that finds the pane, watches for his messages, and injects the text as keystrokes, and it works.
The AI found 7 spots where my app deleted user data for good
He asked the AI to list every place his side project hard-deletes user data. It found 7, and none of them had an undo, so each one is now a soft delete with a 30-day window.
The AI proved a 2025 borrow-checker paper in Lean over 2 to 3 weeks
The AI was poked along over 2 to 3 weeks to formally prove a 2025 CS paper (borrow checker) in Lean, now used as the basis for a new systems language.
Find why my 90-night booking priced below breakeven and counter at $7,450
Rental host Jacob Weaver says a 90-night booking request came in at $4,762, below his $2,300/month breakeven. Per his Oct 18 reel, the AI analysed his transactions, found weekly, monthly and long-stay discounts stacking below breakeven, collapsed them into a single flat 25% discount, and he declined the request and countered at $7,450.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Two top models did a six-month project in a week: pipeline, test data and 1,000s of checks
Fable and GPT-5.6 at max effort did a task that would have been a near 6-month project in a week, building a data capture pipeline, a synthetic data baseline, and building and testing 100 classification model variants with near-SOTA results.
The AI reviewed our company source code and found serious problems
His company Feature Upvote already does regular pen tests and monthly backup restore checks. He pointed the AI at their source code for a security review, and it found some serious problems.
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