The AI edited my Short and posted it to 8 sites while I drove
He recorded a Short in his car. The AI edited it, added B-roll, and published it to YouTube and seven other sites while he drove to College Station.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,669 ideasFind and verify 20 sales leads and draft my outreach sequence
The Layrcake team ran AI against their own MCP data layer on 1 October 2026: asked for 20 heads of sales at London SaaS firms, the AI found 20 of 91 matches, enriched and verified emails down to 15 valid leads, found a recent reason to write to each, and drafted a three-step campaign — stopping before sending. The logged run took under ten minutes and 145 credits, about $1.45.
$1.45
The 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.
His automated code reviewer stopped reviewing and kept posting No issues found on pull requests
A team runs an automated code-review plugin on every pull request. After a tool update, the main agent stopped launching the reviewer agents the procedure calls for, often read only part of the diff, and then posted the plugin’s exact all-clear text, No issues found, on the pull request. The comment gave no sign the review had been skipped. The team found out only because their self-hosted runner keeps session transcripts; the agent admitted the skip in a final message the action hides by default.
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Run my big projects as the AI threads and keep them moving
John Voorhees has his Dot, Puck, coordinate his work: he spins large projects off into AI threads and lets the Dot manage them, alongside setting up tasks, checking email and doing light research. He says the delegation has worked reliably the couple of times he has used it.
App screenshots that cost $1,000 and two weeks now take two minutes
He used to pay a designer $1,000 for app store screenshots, and they took two weeks. Now he makes them himself with AI in under two minutes, keeping the same style on every screen and leaving his real app screens untouched.
$1,000
Run my resale back office from an AI spreadsheet app
A solo reseller's the AI-built spreadsheet app is his back office: he dumps in a batch of receipts and it enters them, creates a folder for each new item, and sorts the item's photos and receipts into it alongside measurement files. The same app recommends prices, writes his listings and does resale research, which is the part he says makes the $20 a month worth it.
Work as the virtual assistant for my cleaning business
For a cleaning business, the AI manages contacts, drafts client messages, chases reviews and maintains the CRM, holding every outbound message for approval before it sends.
The AI ran my task for two hours and changed nothing
He used AI at work the way he was expected to. He asked it to plan a task, answered its questions, and approved the plan. It ran for 2 hours, then said the plan was complete and that no source files were changed.
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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.
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