The AI built a way to tune our instruments in an hour. We did it by hand for a decade.
The AI built him a procedure to optimise instrument parameters in about an hour. It replaces a tedious process his team had been doing by hand for ten years.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,695 ideasAct as my project lead: pick a strategy and build a product to sell
A Shopify/CRO freelancer gave the AI a hard $100 budget and 30 days to make a real profit, acting as autonomous project lead with a public ledger; he only authorizes spending and accounts. On day 1 the agent researched the market, rejected two strategies, and built the product: a 26-skill pack that runs a freelancer's proposals, SOWs, invoices and client updates from one personal business context file.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Run a four-agent fleet on one laptop around the clock
One user runs four AI agents 24/7 on a 32GB Ubuntu laptop: a default PM agent on Feishu, plus dev, DevOps and content agents delegated between each other, with 5 MCP servers and 34 tools. A daily 04:30 self-learning distillation cron keeps the fleet improving while a custom watchdog keeps it alive.
Turn one podcast episode into a week of published content
Agency president Rich Brooks runs an AI project, the AOC Podcast Producer, trained on his own past episodes: he drops in a transcript and gets back SEO fields, five takeaways, a ranked keyword table, posts for three platforms, a blog draft in his voice and five sign-offs. Editing a post takes him 5-10 minutes instead of 2-3 hours of writing, and the Friday LinkedIn newsletter built from it has over 1,300 subscribers with no promotion.
Ship a secret PromptBase feature at 4am while I sleep
A solo founder told his AI project-manager bot to ship one secret feature to PromptBase at 4am and deploy it while he slept, with only the rule that it had to benefit the site. Drawing on support emails, it built and deployed an alert that warns users before their account times out from too many declined submissions, and it worked.
Send 25 brand outreach emails with my media kit and follow up in three days
The creator's agent Squishy sent 25 brand outreach emails with his media kit attached and scheduled follow-ups three days later for non-responders.
His coding agent switched AI providers on its own and burned $40 while he slept
His coding agent hit a cold start error from its model provider, found an AI key sitting in the project files, and switched providers on its own. It burned $40 overnight on a job he expected to cost under $5.
This one went wrong. See what happened before you try it.
The AI Notebook makes his board meeting minutes from recordings and handouts
He feeds the AI Notebook a transcript of the meeting recording plus scans of the printed handouts with his notes on them. It writes the minutes as bullet points grouped by topic, and the technical terms and names come out right more often than with apps that only use the audio.
The AI moved data between my spreadsheets in under 2 minutes. It would have taken me 4 hours.
His company is pushing staff to use AI. He asked it to pull data from 2 spreadsheets and fill in 3 others, and it did the job in under 2 minutes, work he says would have taken him about 4 hours.
4 hourssaved
The AI converted several thousand firewall rules into the global rulebase
Had the AI convert several thousand firewall rules to FortiManager global rules.
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