The AI found all my invoices and sent them to my accountant
He got the AI to hunt down all his various invoices and forward them to his accountant. It took a pile of dull admin off his plate.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,665 ideasTurn my screen recording into an avatar tutorial video
A creator gave the AI a screen recording and asked for a setup tutorial; the agent produced a HeyGen video presented by her own avatar. It kept her preferences in memory for follow-up video work.
Build a micro SaaS with AI and land the first two paying subscribers
Brazilian creator Klebson tells the full story of Alvanto, a client-finding platform for website sellers that he built from scratch with AI: the idea from his own prospecting pain, what went wrong during the build, and how the first two subscribers arrived with no advertising at all. He gave the project a four-month deadline to prove itself and stresses the numbers are small and real — two people paying monthly.
The AI built a fuzzer for a sync service, then spent 30 hours fixing its own bugs
Guided the AI to build a fuzzer for Obsidian Sync without reading the code, functional prototype in about 30 hours, then the next 30 hours became a bug treadmill where the AI broke as much as it fixed.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Build me an autonomous business: VibeCheck, in 2.5 hours
Creator Jordan Rafealov asked the AI to build a fully autonomous business targeting $200 a day; the bot read real complaints on X, proposed six app ideas, and after he picked one live, built VibeCheck, a security scanner for vibe-coded apps, in about 2.5 hours including the name, plan and domain purchase. The video doubles as a funnel for his paid community.
I made a Chinese lesson video with AI, the AI and a voice tool
He produced a Mandarin grammar lesson video from his own writing from a few years ago. The AI made the visuals with Remotion, the AI did the drawings and BytePlus TTS did the voices, and the finished lesson is up on YouTube.
A database fork with version control, built through 2,000 agent pull requests, now in beta
DoltLite, a SQLite fork with Git-style version control, was built with 2k agent PRs and released in beta.
The AI Sites built his rehearsal space booking site in 30 minutes, with no code from him
A man fed an expanded spec sheet into AI Sites and got a working booking website for his rehearsal space in 30 minutes. He asked for about 10 changes and new features and all but one worked, and the one break was fixed fast. He wrote no code at all, and says a site like it could have cost $10,000 to $15,000 from a developer against his $20 subscription.
$10,000one time
The AI built my newsletter email sequence and skipped a $10,000 quote
He was quoted $10,000 for a newsletter automation. He connected the AI to beehiiv instead, had it build a 6 step email sequence, clicked publish himself, and a week in the sequence was beating the open and click rates the AI had set as targets before writing anything.
$10,000one time
The AI’s test scheduler cut his release builds from a minute to about 3 seconds
The AI wrote a test run scheduler and migrated to nextest, cutting local release build cycles from 60+ seconds to about 3 seconds.
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