Made $350 selling a digital template pack that the AI drafted, illustrated and listed
Merphy made $350 from a digital template pack: The AI drafted the copy, generated the images and wrote the listing.
$350
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,695 ideasThe 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.
Two of my games were built by the AI and published on Google Play
He got a $510 Google Play payout. Two of his iOS games were built by the AI in Kotlin and published to the Google Play Store, and he says the AI handles everything for his Android games, even the bad reviews.
$510
An AI routine runs his company's X account, and the posts are landing flat
An AI cloud routine runs his company's X account from a markdown queue: it writes posts, publishes them, chases replies and tracks engagement in a file. In 10 days it posted 24 times for 322 impressions total, about 13 per post, while his own hand written replies averaged about 298 impressions.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Take my morning dog-walk voice dump and act on all of it
On his morning dog walks, Mete Ünal calls his Dot for about ten minutes and brain-dumps everything on his mind. By the time he is home, the Dot has spun up separate threads for the items, filed an article idea into his notes, tracked landing-page feedback and started on his Japan visa process.
I automated our hiring, I just reply yes and it books the interview
Job applications from a Google Form land in his spreadsheet on their own and each one is emailed to him to review. If he replies yes, the applicant gets his scheduling link; once they book they get joining instructions and a reminder an hour before. He runs the business next to a full time job and two kids in diapers, so every message it sends for him counts.
Automated photography-studio operations: video editing, social posting, email review for client photo
Photographer Jason KeyFootage James endorses the AI as a free business-automation tool that transformed his operations: it integrates disconnected services without Zapier/Make setups, handling video editing, social posting, email review for client photo selections, project management, finance tracking, and automated client follow-ups after four days. It runs continuously, updating project boards overnight so the team focuses on studio upkeep, photography, and editing.
An agent built a proof checker, then broke its soundness 5 ways and fixed them
Fable built a minimal proof assistant, then checked its soundness and found and fixed 5 ways it could prove false theorems.
The AI learned my writing style from 50 past cover letters and writes new ones
He fed the AI more than 50 of his own tailored cover letters, plus his resumes and job descriptions, and the AI made a style guide for his writing. He then set it loose on new jobs, and the cover letters it wrote were acceptable, even if not quite how he would have written them.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI ran on our ad server all night and found bugs we had missed
He let the AI UltraCode run overnight on their triggered ad server. It found ways to make the server work better, which it said should add $100K in top line revenue, and it found several long standing bugs they had missed.
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