I used AI to fix a data entry gap at work
A man with no coding experience used AI to generate a VBA script in Excel. The script fixed a manual data entry gap at his work and took the risk of typos and misreads out of the job.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,693 ideasRealtor's the AI watches his own MLS login for price drops every morning
Realtor Dave Hutchinson opens the AI Chrome extension inside his logged-in MLS, gives it one narrow standing instruction (his example: condos under $500,000 in his farm area with a price drop in the last three days), then converts the result into a scheduled task that reruns every morning. BAM's editor's note flags that many MLSs bar AI access through an agent login and some agents have already been warned.
Script, voice and animate my videos with AI (replacing a $480/mo editor)
Duggan says he replaced a $480/mo Upwork video editor with an AI pipeline: The AI scripts the video, ElevenLabs provides the voice, and Remotion/HyperFrames handles the animation. He says the reel itself was produced this way.
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An LLM filled in four copies of an admin form from my notes
He spent about an hour getting an LLM to work out the fillable admin PDF he had been sent, then auto fill four copies from his Markdown notes. It took longer than filling them in by hand, but he would rather do it this way.
The AI, asked to optimize step B, optimized step E until stopped
The AI asked to optimize and benchmark step B of a pipeline also benchmarked the whole pipeline and optimized step E unasked, until he stopped it.
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Built a reusable SEO toolkit: keyword brief generator and on-page audit checklist
The AI drafted reusable SEO templates as document artifacts. He ran them on a real topic and saves them for weekly reuse.
The AI takes over my cursor and fonts my comics in Clip Studio
For a few weeks he has had the AI take over his cursor, open Clip Studio, and put the words on his comics. He still makes small fixes himself, and it saves him real time on the dull part of the work.
Set up my recurring Instagram posting schedule
A marketing agency reviewer gave the AI a week of real client-style work, including setting up a recurring Instagram posting schedule. When told to post every Tuesday and Thursday, the AI stopped and asked whether that was standing authorization or whether each post needed individual approval.
Audited email automations before the holiday rush: shut down duplicate flows double-emailing
Before the holiday rush, the AI audited Polk's email automations, shut down duplicate flows that were double-emailing customers, recreated the flows, rebuilt templates, and turned on tracking so she can see which emails drive sales — while she kept running her other businesses.
The AI built a full GoHighLevel system while the owner was in meetings
The owner had a morning full of meetings while the AI built a complete system for her business in GoHighLevel on its own, doing work with calendars, forms and follow-ups that she used to spend whole afternoons building by hand. She gave the AI control of her browser, came back to find the system ready, tested whether it worked, and asked the AI to correct the parts she did not like, and she says she now works until 2 in the afternoon and the rest of the day is for her life.
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