The AI does my invoicing now and flags the bills that are missing
He says the AI now does the invoicing work his tax advisor and the Easybill app used to do. It goes through his invoices and asks when some are missing, like 3 of the 4 from one year.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,665 ideasA whiskey firm's Shopify reporting runs itself after four weeks of watched runs
Shopify hid the data his whiskey company needs for accounting and compliance, so reporting was a manual merge every week. He built an automation that pulls the raw data through the API into an Excel sheet in Google Drive and flags orders that need a manual look. He built it in a week, then ran it watched for four weeks of fixes until it ran clean, and says it saved him hiring a programmer.
His experts provision real data environments through agents in plain requests
Domain experts use agents via MCP to provision real environments, e.g. a 200Gi PostgreSQL with PostGIS plus a copy of a Texas layer set, a big productivity boost over provisioning web interfaces.
An agent now makes the promo posts for our 70 radio shows a month
A radio station runs about 70 shows a month, and making an Instagram post and story for each host used to take half a day a week. Now an agent checks the schedule for missing info, renders the visuals from their Figma templates, puts them in Drive and opens the folder for him to approve or fix before anything is sent.
Field my land-sale inquiries — it offered buyers $1
Los Angeles land seller James Frakes set his AI 'Kermit' to answer Facebook Marketplace inquiries about his vacant parcels, listed between $20,000 and $100,000. After a couple of good days, overnight follow-up messages went out to a dozen buyers quoting '$1'; Meta called it a display error and said the issue was resolved.
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Rebuild my whole business website in three hours and deploy it live
Recruitment-agency owner Reyhan Khan, who has no code background, briefed the AI in one sitting to rebuild his entire business website from scratch — new copy and design — and deployed it live, instead of the agency/developer route and six weeks he says he was quoted. The video shows before/after, the seven steps, and what he had to fix.
I had never coded. With the AI I cut report work from 60 minutes to 2.
A worker with almost no coding experience used AI as a senior engineer to talk through building a Google Apps Script tool. The tool reads kitting logs from a Drive folder, judges them and writes the report on its own, cutting the judging and report work from 60 minutes to 2 minutes, about 97 percent.
An agent adopted a publishing front-end and had him a usable editor within a day
Agent adopted a desktop publishing frontend, built it for wasm and plugged it into his tools and storage backend, giving a usable editor within a day.
The AI rebuilt my website and store. I no longer pay Shopify $40 a month.
The AI rebuilt his website, his point of sale, and his online storefront. He no longer pays Shopify $40 a month, his site works better, and payments run through Square.
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The AI built my StrivePay website, then burned 18,400 credits failing to fix its own errors
A reviewer paid the AI to develop and host his website, StrivePay, but hit repeated technical failures, broken functionality and exposed HTML errors; the 14,400 credits he received on September 25 plus another $20 for 4,000 more were consumed on repair attempts, and his refund request was refused on acceptable-use grounds.
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