Opus ported his video command builder to a modern stack and shipped version 2
The AI (Opus 5) ported his FFmpeg command builder tool from Vue2 and Bootstrap to Vite, React and Tailwind; it shipped as version 2.0.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,695 ideasThe AI scores new job posts against my CV and emails me the best ones
He kept finding good job matches days after they were posted, so he built a pipeline called SnapplAI. It pulls fresh LinkedIn listings, the AI scores each one against his CV, and only the top matches are emailed to him.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI read 10,000 job postings against my resume and I got two offers
Fed up with scrolling LinkedIn and Indeed for internships, he built a tool that lets the AI pull live postings from more than 40 hiring systems and judge each one against his resume every night. Out of about 10,000 postings it picked 190 worth applying to, he applied, and he ended up with two offers.
An AI script turned a 3-hour chore into a 10-minute repeatable one
The AI wrote a PowerShell script that turned a 3 hour manual task into a 10 minute task he can repeat any time.
The AI cleared dozens of his household annoyances and built two work apps besides
Used the AI to solve dozens of annoyances around the house and life and to develop two work apps, one a complete polished interactive web app he says he could not have completed alone.
My AI posts to 7 channels while I sleep
He connects an AI to his posting app with one key. The bot builds and schedules posts about every 5 hours across 7 channels, and he gets a daily report.
Run my online shop with scheduled AI agents and post the earnings
Ten days after handing his online shop to 30 AI agents (scheduled tasks built with AI), the someone creator published a day-10 report: the agents built 67 Etsy listings, 49 print-on-demand products, 2 paperback books and 6 YouTube videos, but revenue was $0.00 on 165 views, 0 favorites and 0 sales, with $42.60 spent. His lesson: "Building is cheap now. Getting seen is the hard part."
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
He had LLMs rewrite his Python science code in Rust and it now answers instantly
A man reimplemented his GIS science code from Python into Rust using LLMs, with a hard test: identical inputs and outputs at 10,000 points. Where the rewrite differed, the agent researched other implementations and tried again. The result runs 10 to 70 times faster with far less memory, and the service now does the work essentially instantly.
His agent found the vulnerability in under an hour from disclosure scraps meant to be useless
Gave his AI agent pre-patch disclosure details meant to be useless; the agent found the vulnerability in less than an hour.
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His property tool's first version came from a 3 sentence prompt and a 31 hour agent run
The first version of his Groundhog property tool was built from a three sentence prompt. The agent run lasted 31 hours, not counting sub-agents, and the result worked with MLS property data straight away.
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