The AI made narrated English and French versions of his project video in about an hour
AI session of about 60 minutes produced narrated English and French video versions for his project for about 30 dollars at API rates, with reusable assets.
$30
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,693 ideasA therapist built her own EMDR light bar app and saved hundreds of dollars
She used AI to build a web app with a moving visual target that works like the light bar used in EMDR therapy, instead of buying the equipment. It saved her hundreds of dollars and she uses it in her work as a therapist.
I built an online game on a Raspberry Pi between farm jobs. It made $3,000.
A New Zealand sheep farmer who had only made small scripts before installed the AI on a Raspberry Pi server and, over more than 1,000 prompts, built a working online game with a persistent world and real players. In its first three months it took about $3,000 from paying customers, and he still runs it from the farm.
$3,000
The AI checked 163 co-author profiles for me and found no Mastodon links
He asked the AI to check a researcher's co-authors on ORCID for possible Mastodon links. The AI checked 163 co-authors, 120 of whom had ORCID profiles, and found none.
Six agents run his business magazine while he stays out of the day to day
A non technical founder, who spent 25 years in banking, has six AI agents running his small business magazine: a CEO agent, trend scout, researcher, writer, SEO agent and publishing agent. He has caught real errors, including a sales agent that wrote a full report for a fake email address and a CEO agent that burned money by waking up too often.
The AI’s systems tools are in real use, one reverse engineered from a camera's wire protocol
The AI wrote Zig tools in real use, including a wasm utility integrated into a site and reverse engineering a USB wire protocol for an industrial camera driver.
AI agent runs a shirt shop that closes if it misses 5 sales
Cosmo, an AI agent, runs a shirt shop and does the selling, while a person approves every design and price. Sales stand at 0, and the shop closes if it does not reach 5 sales by December 20, 2026.
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My sales close rate went from 20% to 75% with AI
A corporate salesperson who cannot code keeps all his customer files in one folder that the AI reads directly. Before a meeting it pulls out up to three things to check, and after a meeting it turns his voice memo into minutes and a thank you email and files them.
Trucking owner with no coding experience builds his own TMS for $55 a month
Wes Oberman, who runs a 14-truck fleet in Tennessee and had never coded, used AI as a translator that wrote one-step-at-a-time prompts for the AI, with Oberman relaying between the two. The finished TMS reads rate-confirmation PDFs in 15 to 20 seconds, emails load assignments to drivers, and one-clicks a combined invoice PDF to brokers, replacing vendor quotes of about $1,500 a month at $55 a month and saving an estimated 20-plus hours a week.
20 hourssaved
Furniture flipper runs AI as a Marketplace scout: dressers and nightstands under $150
A full-time furniture flipper (six figures/year) configured the AI to monitor Facebook Marketplace within a 20-mile radius of ZIP 88310 for dressers and nightstands under $150. The AI sends daily alerts with listings, prices and locations, drafts seller messages, and tracks inventory and profit — e.g.
$150
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