His staff spin up sandboxed dev environments through AI before bothering engineering
Company the AI hooked to Fly.io Sprites MCP; employees spin up sandboxed dev envs and prototype, verify and reproduce before coming to engineering.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,669 ideasResearch five competitors into a structured report in 15 minutes
Reviewers tasked the AI with researching the top five competitors in the freelance project-management space across 12+ websites including G2, Capterra and Reddit, extracting pricing, audiences, features and common complaints. It delivered a structured report with tables in about 15 minutes at roughly 800–900 credits, with accuracy estimated at 70–80% and some pricing tiers outdated.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Handled Instagram DMs and comments, produced full page analytics with growth charts,
A Persian-language reel demonstrated the AI managing emails and sending auto-replies, handling Instagram direct messages and comments, generating full page analytics with growth charts, and producing weekly content plans — then creating a custom avatar and a product video for a QCY SP2 Bluetooth speaker. It connected to Gmail and Instagram.
The AI transcribed over 28,000 documents for our history project
He and a colleague used AI to transcribe over 28,000 documents for the Papers of the War Department project. They wrote up how they did it on the RRCHNM blog.
The AI runs my weekly digest of new plant papers
He kept finding papers months late, so he set up a weekly digest with AI. It pulls new papers from Europe PMC, bioRxiv, and Crossref, filters them by his keywords, and puts them on one page every Monday.
Turn each day's article into a reel and post it everywhere
The MBI Deep Dives author writes that right after publishing each day he has the AI create a reel from the piece and post it to Facebook, Threads and Instagram after his approval. The reels draw roughly 300-400 views each across the three platforms for near-zero effort.
His publishing agent posted the same articles twice with changed web addresses
The publishing agent for his magazine posted duplicate articles to WordPress, with the copies sitting at addresses ending in -2 where readers could find both. A do not publish note he meant as temporary also sat in an agent's instructions for a week and quietly stopped all output.
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The AI does my quarterly sales tax and fills in the state website
He hates filing quarterly sales tax, so now the AI gets the data, works out what his business owes, and fills in the state website. He checks it and pushes the final button himself.
Pull my Meta Ads data every morning and rank winners and losers (replacing Foreplay)
Business owner Shane Duggan says in an Oct 13 reel that he replaced Foreplay ($175/mo) with an AI automation that pulls his Meta Ads data every morning into a dashboard ranking winning and losing ads. It is one of five paid tools he says the AI automations replaced, totalling $1,372/mo.
$175a month
My Dot found my resume in Gmail and brought back real job listings
PCMag connected all three agents to the reviewer's Gmail and asked them to find his resume and hunt for matching jobs. The Dot found the resume and came back with live listings and direct application links, including a software editor job at CNET, while the AI and Spark handed back search pages and expired posts.
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