The AI negotiated a business deal for him and saved more than $30,000
A man who pays $200 a month for the AI says it already saved him more than $30,000 in a business transaction by negotiating for him.
$30,000one time
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,669 ideasThe AI routines run his two long projects every few hours, inside a hard spending cap
The AI Routines fire every few hours for two long-running projects; the AI decides the tasks itself and keeps OpenRouter spending within hard daily limits, doing other tasks after the cap.
The AI brought my broken R package back after two years
His crashapi R package, for getting road crash data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, had been largely broken for two years. He used AI to bring it back, and the package is live again.
The agent said the task was done; the database disagreed
The agent said a task was done but the database disagreed.
This one went wrong. See what happened before you try it.
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.
The AI wrote a small PR and, unasked, set up live HTTPS testing for it
The AI wrote a minor pull request for an open source webapp and on its own suggested and actually used Cloudflare Quick Tunnels to test over HTTPS.
Local AI submitted almost 200 job applications in about 5 days
A man ran a local AI on his own machine that submitted almost 200 job applications over almost 5 days. His only part in the applications was clicking the captcha boxes, and running the work locally saved at least $400 in token costs at the AI rates.
$400one time
Smarsh's Archie Agent Resolves Over 7 in 10 Support Sessions Without a Human
Smarsh's customer support agent built on Salesforce Agentforce, named Archie, now resolves more than 7 in 10 sessions without a human.
Two models built a legal PDF text library that works well and stalls at 80 percent
Fable and the AI vibecoded a library improving text extraction from legal PDFs; it works pretty well but is stalled at about 80 percent on design and heuristics, with the models churning.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Run my WhatsApp enquiries, call bookings and payments with an AI
Creator Luv Kapruwan's screen demo (Oct 19 reel, Hindi) shows his AI answering collaboration-rate enquiries on WhatsApp, offering a 15-minute call for 499 rupees, showing his calendar with three free slots, taking the 6:00 PM slot, presenting a UPI QR code for payment, and confirming 'You're booked!'
₹499
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