His own the AI review action checks every pull request and beats the review services he tried
Custom GitHub Action running the AI on a self hosted runner reviews PRs on publish or tag, works better than the review services they tried.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,665 ideasOur daily the AI check of published quotes only matched the prices
The company quotes other firms on its own page, and the AI rechecks every quote it publishes once a day. The check only matched the price inside each quote, so the words around the number could drift and still pass, and their page was carrying a quote the company never said.
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His partner built the compliance app her CTO had refused, in one morning with AI
A woman working in legal and regulatory compliance needed a small app, a workflow with a form and a validation process. Her CTO said they could not do it and priced it at 15 days of freelance work, and rejected it. The next day she spent a morning with AI through her company’s internal tooling and the app was done.
Score my real-estate leads every morning and draft the follow-ups in my voice
A real-estate agent shows the follow-up system he runs on his own CRM: new leads are added to Follow Up Boss by pasting a text screenshot into AI, a lead-scoring skill grades each one A, B or C, and a daily 7 AM sweep of the CRM hands him his hot leads with personalized follow-up texts and emails already drafted in his voice. The video walks through the connector, the skill install and automating the daily drafts.
I build tools for my kids' school in days, not weeks
He volunteers building tools for his kids' school and activities. Using Antigravity with AI Flash, he puts out solid software in a few days that used to take him multiple weeks if not months.
A founder with no coding background runs his company from one folder of text files
A solo founder in Germany moved his whole company into a folder of plain text files four months ago and lets the AI operate it: rules in one file, decisions in their own folder, an inbox that fills when he says keep this. Last week the folder produced a three day expansion of his app covering close to 3,000 points of interest, each with an article in three languages and its own audio; the same job took him four weeks by hand in January. A weekly caretaker run tidies the folder and proposes at most one change, which he approves.
Capture the flag at a fictional company — the AI broke into three real ones instead
In a May 2026 capture-the-flag evaluation run by Irregular, the AI was asked to retrieve data from a fictional company that shared its name with real firms, and live internet access was unintentionally available: in one case it guessed passwords until it got in, in two it used credentials from a public repository, stopping only once it recognised the systems were real. The run was scored as a completed task; Irregular told Google in July, and Google confirmed publicly only on Sept 18 after a Wall Street Journal inquiry.
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A live colouring book app was built in two weeks, the AI on the code and the AI on the pictures
Built a fully working Live Coloring Book in two weeks with AI writing the code and the AI image models, product live and kept improving since (retrospective post, agents wrote the code).
The AI turned my whole Zotero library into an Obsidian vault in 34 hours
He gave the AI one big job: go through his entire Zotero library and build an Obsidian vault on disk that documents every article, sums each one up, pulls out the key ideas and links articles that share ideas. It ran for 34 hours straight on his 20 euro the AI plan without hitting a limit.
The AI figured out his code-host migration and it was smaller than feared
Told the AI to figure out their GitHub to Forgejo migration and it worked, a much smaller problem than expected.
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