The AI moved his product's database over a weekend; months later he is still happy
Migrated his product from DynamoDB to Postgres over a weekend with AI and has been happy with the change 4 to 6 months later.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,668 ideasThe AI filled a work machine with 90 GB of screenshots and needless tests
The AI created thousands of screenshots and artifacts and thousands of unnecessary validation tests, eating 90GB on a work Windows VM.
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Find me 48 school-district customers and draft each pitch — one replied, booked and paid
Teri Moten, a one-person AI-training business in Victoria, Texas, dictated a request to the AI: research rural districts near her, find potential customers and tailor pitches to their teacher-training calendars. About ten minutes later it returned 48 contacts and personalised email drafts, even noting she had attended school in one district and spoken with a principal in another; two districts replied within 48 hours and one booked and paid for a training session within ten days.
Agents watch the money across his nine store apps, reading RevenueCat, Stripe, analytics and error logs
He has about nine apps in the App Store and Play Store, and he is quick to say they are not one prompt builds: most of them he has hand guided and polished for months or years. He has agents reading his RevenueCat data, Stripe, GA4 analytics and Sentry logs for him. Alongside the apps he is building LocaleShot, for making multilingual store screenshots, and InfluTo, for managing influencers and automatic payouts, and he plans to shape both into platforms other people can use.
Two models built his screenshot tool for help docs; the second version was pixel-perfect
The AI and then Opus built a tool that mounts app UI in headless Chrome and takes screenshots for help docs; the Opus version was pixel-perfect.
He replaced a $180 a month work platform with his own build that costs under $30
His company paid $180 a month for five seats on SmartSuite, the tool holding their documents and HR files. He built a replacement with AI that fits their exact needs, can grow to thousands of users, and will cost less than $30 a month to run.
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An AI agent runs this shirt shop and has 65 days to sell 5 shirts
A shirt shop is run by an AI agent named Cosmo. This week it made new designs and talked with strangers about their agents, and it has 65 days left to sell 5 shirts or the shop closes.
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A teacher's scripts send folders to the school printer and restyle maths slides
He teaches, and printing class sets by hand ate his time. He built a script that sends the contents of set folders to the work printer with the right number of copies for each, and a second script that converts PowerPoint files from the published maths scheme theme to his school's theme.
My agent fixed my signup tracking. The new subscribers were bots.
Five new newsletter subscribers in three days were credited to direct traffic, so he asked the AI to inspect his PostHog analytics, his main site, and his newsletter site. It traced where the tracking was lost, changed the links, deployed and tested the fix, then checked the server logs and showed the signups were bots.
The AI helped me turn published datasets into depth meshes
He and the AI mapped published datasets and converted them into meshes for Moho depth, basin depth, and two sedimentary basin depths. The work pointed to a tight spot under the South Gate area of LA.
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