The AI helped port a modern interface toolkit back to Windows XP, with graphics working
With the help of the AI, ported the current dev branch of Qt6 back to Windows XP with working OpenGL.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,668 ideasBuild my advisory firm's portfolio-optimizer algorithm with AI agents
A portfolio advisory firm says the algorithm inside the Portfolio Optimizer on its website - built through multiple iterations with AI's agents for structuring equity portfolios - would not have been possible without them, and would have cost upwards of $100,000 to build the conventional way.
$100,000
Draft an email to our lawyer about the new vacation policy
Newton had Kicker draft an email to his new company's lawyer setting out its vacation policy. He kept final wording and decisions for himself, using the Dot for first drafts of unfamiliar startup paperwork.
Shopify silently cut his store's UPS account; the AI had collect shipping working again in 10 minutes
Pulse Research Lab sells to government and prime-contractor buyers who must ship orders on their own UPS/FedEx accounts through a $0 Ship Collect option, but Shopify disconnected the store's UPS account without any notification. After Kan set up a custom app granting the AI permission to edit theme code, the AI restored UPS in 10 minutes, rewrote the collect-shipping pre-checkout cart flow in under an hour, and the store now uses Shopify Flow to store each customer's carrier, account number and service level, pre-populated on new orders.
His agent fleet built the project and filled the disk doing it; now it runs capped and watched
His agent fleet built a Rust project but crippled the machine filling the disk, forcing a cap of 5 workers and a dedicated resource monitor; the project was ended by rebuilding in Go.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
An AI coding tool built his device certification app in about a day, tests upgraded too
An AI IDE built a device certification app in about a day, then upgraded his production test codebase to a v1.0-ready state with automated configs, error handling and simulators over two weeks.
Update all 12 pages of my website in three minutes
Forum founder MJ DeMarco needed a text update across 12 pages of one of his websites, but the platform that built it demanded a new subscription just to edit. He gave the AI access to the site folder instead; it made all the changes in about 3 minutes, avoiding an estimated hour of manual editing and a $20/month subscription.
$20a month
A compiler built mostly by agents over 6 months, at over a million dollars of AI credits
Built the Gea Stack compiler mostly with agents (The AI and Opus, the AI) over 6 months, burning more than a million dollars in AI credits.
$1,000,000one time
His outreach setup has run a year and cut first message review from three hours to 15 minutes
His outreach system researches prospects and sends first outreach, and he reviews the first message of each batch, which now takes 15 minutes instead of 3 hours. Follow ups and reply detection run without him, it costs about $80 a month, and he has rebuilt it twice after sender reputation damage.
An AI skill scans job sites for me while I am out of work
He set up an AI skill that scans job sites for him. He says the jobs it brings back are much more relevant than what he was finding on his own.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
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