Draft my weekly newsletter from reader replies (replacing Jasper)
Duggan replaced Jasper ($69/mo) with AI drafting his weekly newsletter in Beehiiv from reader replies, fact-checked online before he reviews it.
$69a month
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Work
Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,665 ideasThe AI built me a copy of a $100K a year work service
He used AI to build a fully working proof of concept of a service his workplace uses, in 10 minutes and $15 of tokens. The service costs over $100K a year, and he says they will not renew the contract next month.
$100,000a year
A loose prompt wasted all his tokens rebuilding a tool that already exists
Mis-prompted the AI on a toy project; it wasted all his tokens building a specialized Docker clone instead of building on Docker.
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Every Monday my agent scans my YouTube comments and drafts replies for me to approve
Every Monday the AI scans one of his YouTube channels for new comments and drafts replies to them. He reads the drafts, gives the go ahead, and the AI posts them with its browser. Nothing goes up without his review.
Turn TestFlight beta feedback into ranked build tasks automatically
Bennett runs an AI skill that pulls Helm's TestFlight feedback — screenshots, comments and crashes — from Apple into Todoist with attachments. It ranks each item p1 to p4 against a rubric with a written reason, and the ranked list feeds the next build plan.
Check every new chapter against my series bible, daily
Author educator Christopher Kokoski set up a test the AI with a series bible in Google Drive for a mystery series (hero Rudy Relish: seven hard rules including a bad left knee, never touches a gun, no ketchup on the cart). He added the first three chapters of book four and had the AI check each against the bible and all other pages, on a daily scheduled check. Chapters 1-2 were clean; in chapter 3 the AI caught every one of several mistakes he had planted, including one he considered an unfair plant. (Test manuscript on a fresh account, run for a week.)
Runs a monthly background scan of press and viral posts and stages
Content creator Colin Rocker (someone) named his AI 'Marlowe' and set it to keep his personal website updated without manual input. Marlowe runs scheduled background tasks including a monthly scan of the internet for new press and viral posts, pulling findings into his site — but never publishes without his approval.
Six patches for a build tool from an AI software factory, plus a cache security bug found
Six Bazel patches from an AI software factory, plus a remote-cache security bug found.
Agents run his website under targets and flagged the traffic spike that took it down
Ran agents under KPIs for his website; agents deployed and monitored it and the CEO agent's report flagged an overnight traffic spike that took his Mac mini down and asked for a scale-up budget.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI built the interactive probability guide I had always wanted
He had always wanted a compact guide to probability distributions, what they are used for and how they relate to each other. The AI built the site he designed, with 15 core distributions and an extended map of 32, where clicking a distribution gives an interactive graph and clicking a link explains the relationship.
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