The AI edited my whole video from one raw clip
He dropped his raw clip into AI and it did the edit: it cut the stutters, pauses, and ums, and added zooms, sound effects, captions, and animations. He says the finished edit was the AI’s work, not his.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,665 ideasThe AI found one slow call eating 81 percent of his emulator's frame time
Working with AI on his NeoBox emulator, he found setjmp was eating 81 percent of frame time, switched to _setjmp for a roughly 130x per-call gain, and the fix was merged upstream in Geolith.
Automate one Etsy listing end to end — sold in 3 days
A print-on-demand seller wired the AI through Playground to Etsy and Printify so research, SEO, design and listing were automated; her dashboard screenshot shows the new listing sold within 3 days for $42.
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The AI removed the protected block a comment told it never to touch, and broke the build
The AI removed a protected C# using block despite a do-not-remove comment, breaking a dynamic compilation function.
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The AI and the AI researched and drafted his published data center guide
Used the AI and the AI heavily to research, cross-check, draft and review a complete AI data center guide, now published online.
A Belize travel agent automated client itineraries, invoices and CRM updates with AI
Travel agent Catherine Garcia says the AI now pulls deals from 501pulse.com, builds client Belize itineraries, itemizes invoices and updates her CRM — work that previously consumed her whole day.
Set up a dead man's switch for my business
A solo developer who lost his business after a 2012 hospitalization built a self-hosted dead man's switch with AI so his projects and clients are handled if he is incapacitated. It has run for weeks, ships with 42 unit tests, and clients already cite it as a trust feature.
One prompt to the AI fixed our $4M customer's performance problem
A customer worth 4 million dollars in yearly revenue had a performance problem and had complained. He gave the AI the problem in one prompt, and the customer is happy now.
Four the AI skills turn one raw podcast recording into finished pieces
He drops one raw podcast recording into AI. Four skills turn it into an mp3, a transcript, a description on his clipboard, and a pull request on spring.io, with no manual steps.
Circa's Waste-Less Vision Reads Job-Site Video and Drafts Disposal Estimates
Boston demolition startup Circa built Waste-Less Vision with AI: customers submit photos or video of a space, the system identifies materials and prepares a preliminary estimate of disposal costs and labor hours for human review. A 15-minute basement video that once had to be watched fully now becomes a line item automatically.
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