The AI built a failover for his busiest app in 2 minutes and saves him about 200 dollars a month
The AI built a primary/secondary API callout in 2 minutes after he ported his busiest app stage to Haiku, saving about 200 dollars a month.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,695 ideasAI agent runs a shirt shop that closes if it misses 5 sales
Cosmo, an AI agent, runs a shirt shop and does the selling, while a person approves every design and price. Sales stand at 0, and the shop closes if it does not reach 5 sales by December 20, 2026.
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I know nothing about coding. I talk to the AI and it built the app my music school runs on
He runs a music school and cannot code. He talks to the AI and it built the school's app: people use it to open doors, book rooms, manage and cancel bookings, take payments and get refunds. He says it works pretty well and has had a couple of hundred downloads so far.
Find 17 roles and submit 12 applications in one day
The AI found 17 suitable roles for the user and submitted 12 applications within a single day.
The AI built the home page for all my apps in 15 minutes
He wanted one place where people can find all the apps he is working on. The AI built the site, beardfm.app, in about 15 minutes.
Turned 87,000 customer reviews into a full SWOT analysis in minutes
Nathan Daggett of Live Bearded (Phoenix) had the AI go through 87,000 website customer reviews and build a full SWOT analysis; by hand it would have taken months, the AI did it in minutes.
My agent looped the same comment onto 3 pull requests and my account got suspended
A man who runs a directory repo asked the AI to ask vendors in their pull requests whether they would offer a perk to his users. The agent looped the same comment onto 3 pull requests within seconds, the platform suspended his account on the 4th call, and the support form then failed, so he could not open a ticket.
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The AI caught bots draining my server and blocked them with no downtime
The AI saw that Caddy was nearly out of memory on his service, checked the traffic, and found bots hitting IP addresses his customers never use. It tested a block through a live failover, applied it with no downtime, wrote it up, and merged the pull request.
Find internships and submit my résumé every half day
The AI searches for internship openings and submits the user's résumé on a recurring half-day cycle, keeping applications flowing without daily effort from the user.
His plane radar app for Apple TV sat at number one on the paid chart for over a week
He built Utkik, an Apple TV app that turns the television into a live radar for planes, with AI. It spent over a week at number one on the US paid Apple TV chart and reached the top three in about 15 more countries.
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