A database fork with version control, built through 2,000 agent pull requests, now in beta
DoltLite, a SQLite fork with Git-style version control, was built with 2k agent PRs and released in beta.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,693 ideasThe AI read a file system from the early 90s and got every file out intact
He spent $80 for the AI to read a proprietary file system from a piece of hardware from the early 90s. The AI extracted all the files intact.
$80one time
The AI made me games on demand for a cross country flight
On a cross country flight he asked the AI to make games for him on the spot. One kept him playing for 5 hours, and all of them worked on his phone.
He and the AI grew a replacement for his terminal tool over a few months and he never went back
A developer tired of managing terminal windows one way and other windows another way grew his own replacement with AI over the course of a few months, one that treats graphical apps as part of the session too. He uses it now and says he has never looked back.
The AI went through my three Kindle books and found the mistakes I had stopped seeing
He gave the AI his KDP series page, his Google Drive and his three cover files and asked it to compare them with the book descriptions. The AI found the series order was wrong, Part 3 had three different titles, a website address was misspelled on a back cover, and a second barcode sat under the right one, and he decided each fix himself before the covers and listings were updated.
Merge 78 pull requests in a week with a team of bots
A Builder.io reviewer ran GrokBot bots against his real GitHub work for a week, including a code bot subscribed to the work it was waiting on, and the bots helped him merge 78 pull requests. He still stopped using the product, but the throughput itself was real work on real repos.
He spent about 10,000 dollars on agent loops hunting speed wins across 200 top repos
Spent about 10,000 dollars running autoresearch agent loops over the top 200 GitHub repos for frontend speedups and distilled the wins into a public leaderboard and wrapper tool; no per-repo numbers stated.
$10,000
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Grow my startup's social reach 2% a week
The same founder gave a marketing bot a single standing goal - grow PromptBase's social reach 2% per week - and permission to experiment: it started a TikTok profile and a YouTube Shorts channel, tries formats, and doubles down on whatever works, doing content marketing he never had time for as a one-man company.
Software he built turns PDF invoices into bookkeeping files and cut a $300 monthly cost to $20
A coworker was paying $300 a month for software that turns PDF invoices into files the bookkeeping system can import. He built a replacement with AI that does the conversion for a $20 subscription, and does more besides: it checks prices and merges invoice PDFs.
$280
The AI runs my returns and cancellations chats and paperwork for me
He has the AI run the live chats and online paperwork for his returns, cancellations and similar chores. He calls it life-changing.
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