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.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,693 ideasA sandboxed agent checks daily whether the product spec and the code still agree
Sandboxed agent checks spec and code drift daily, triages findings, and surfaces issues; it revealed product miscommunications on the team.
The AI helped solve a GIS geometry problem that sat unsolved for 10 years
A GIS user went back to a PostGIS polygon problem he had asked about almost 10 years earlier. Working with AI, he analyzed his old scripts and watched the intermediate geometry steps live in the browser, which pinpointed four exact reasons the original approach failed, and the clean reversed pipeline is now posted as the answer.
My new app put out my newsletter for the first time. The AI fixed it live.
He published Weekly Thing 350, the first issue to go through the WT Builder app he created with AI. Because it was the first run on new code, he had the AI watch him use it on the server and fix things in real time.
Run my resale back office from an AI spreadsheet app
A solo reseller's the AI-built spreadsheet app is his back office: he dumps in a batch of receipts and it enters them, creates a folder for each new item, and sorts the item's photos and receipts into it alongside measurement files. The same app recommends prices, writes his listings and does resale research, which is the part he says makes the $20 a month worth it.
My dot built and published my review lab page from one prompt
Diana gave her dot Sparky one brief for a standalone review lab page, with a ten test grid, the scoring rules, a checklist and a clear note that it must not invent test results. Sparky built the page in an AI app Sites, published it, told her on its own that the page was set to private, and gave her a link she could share.
Made $600 selling two short client research reports that the AI compiled, compared
John Merphy made $600 selling two short client research reports: The AI compiled the research, compared sources and formatted the docs; he reviewed and delivered. Part of $1,150 total that month.
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A Belize travel agent automated client itineraries, invoices and CRM updates with AI
Travel agent Catherine Garcia says the AI now pulls deals from 501pulse.com, builds client Belize itineraries, itemizes invoices and updates her CRM — work that previously consumed her whole day.
The AI rebranded my old presentation. The fixes ate the hour it saved.
The AI took a 6 month old presentation and updated the branding. He then had to replace images and fix a dozen small things that did not look clearly wrong at first pass. It saved an hour of copy paste work and caused an hour of editing.
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Manager agents review every sales demo call and coach the humans who ran them
AI manager agents review transcripts of every demo call, compile insights, update company docs and give feedback to the humans who ran the demos; agents own KPIs and escalate to humans.
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