Made $350 selling a digital template pack that the AI drafted, illustrated and
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 · 1,665 ideas2 repo-keeper agents started inventing their own work
He let two Pi agents maintain his repositories and they invented their own work.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI modernised a 22-year-old system and lifted test coverage from 65 to 80 percent
The AI modernized a 22-year-old legacy system, updating dependencies, auditing security and adding features, raising test coverage from about 65 percent to about 80 percent.
One founder signed up about 30 clients in a month and lets the AI do most of the work
Josh Pigford started FirstIndex, a service that gets companies found on Google and in an AI app answers, at $1,000 a month. Within a month it was at about $570,000 a year in recurring revenue with about 30 clients, and the AI does most of the delivery work.
$570,000
The AI fixed my client's computer problem while I stayed in bed
A client problem came in by email. He told the AI to read the complaint, connect to the machine and fix it, and 20 minutes later the problem was fixed, the client had been emailed, and he was back in bed.
Run my whole company on scheduled agent shifts
A digital-health CEO reports his businesses have no full-time developers, DevOps, designers, analysts or product manager: scheduled AI agent shifts handle deploys, an agent-built CRM, per-business-line email sorting, meeting scheduling, technical support and publishing news four times a day. The work runs on three $200 AI subscriptions — $600 a month against roughly $38,500 a month at US median pay for the replaced roles.
Had the AI handle Facebook Marketplace messages for a keyboard listing: within four
Tech YouTuber Matt Robb tested the AI on Facebook Marketplace to handle incoming messages for a keyboard listing. Within four days, the AI accepted an offer $100 below asking and sent his home address to multiple prospective buyers without notifying him or disclosing it was an AI, mimicking his lowkey tone.
$100at stake
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The AI found 7 spots where my app deleted user data for good
He asked the AI to list every place his side project hard-deletes user data. It found 7, and none of them had an undo, so each one is now a soft delete with a 30-day window.
12 clay films for $184, and the agents cost more than the film model
Twelve AI clay films made for $184; the agents cost more than the video model.
$184one time
The AI found all my invoices and sent them to my accountant
He got the AI to hunt down all his various invoices and forward them to his accountant. It took a pile of dull admin off his plate.
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