The AI turned my portfolio site into a 30 second video resume
The AI turned a bullet journal style portfolio site into a 30 second video, like a resume in motion. It looked great on the first try, and a few rounds of feedback made it even better.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,665 ideasIt finds the building materials I need at the lowest price and sends me the total and directions
The same contracting owner has the AI finding the building materials he needs at the lowest price, telling him the total cost of all items, and sending Waze directions to the store. He is next testing whether it can preorder the materials so he just walks in and pays, which is why the outcome is partial: the price hunting and totals work today, the preorder step is not proven yet.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
One founder runs his whole company through AI sessions
He is the sole founder of BlueVeta, where a customer uploads one product photo and gets back a full marketing campaign for 20 platforms. Every part of the company runs as its own AI session, the sessions message each other and share docs, and nothing is built, deployed or spent without his OK first. The company has real paying customers through Stripe, and the AI does about 75 percent of the work in each customer pack.
After Indeed laid off his wife, he built a job service that now applies for people inside an AI app
A builder whose wife was laid off by Indeed built a job search platform with AI, then a connector that brings it inside an AI app: search about 15,000 new jobs a day for free, drop in a resume for matches and tailored versions, and have the service submit applications on employers' own sites once the user approves. It launched the week before his October 14 post and already has 450 users with 75 active daily; paid users on autopilot are seeing 83 interviews per 100 subscribers.
The AI fixed my client's computer problem while I stayed in bed
A client problem came in by email. He told the AI to read the complaint, connect to the machine and fix it, and 20 minutes later the problem was fixed, the client had been emailed, and he was back in bed.
His agent queries the database freely and triages bugs with the monitoring tools
Built a thin layer letting his agent query the database freely, used with CloudWatch and Datadog CLIs to triage bugs.
A working proxy extension shipped from a one-shot build
Shipped a working Envoy Rust extension built with Fable in a one-shot, though the agent often stalls and leaves him stuck on other proxy work.
I built an online game on a Raspberry Pi between farm jobs. It made $3,000.
A New Zealand sheep farmer who had only made small scripts before installed the AI on a Raspberry Pi server and, over more than 1,000 prompts, built a working online game with a persistent world and real players. In its first three months it took about $3,000 from paying customers, and he still runs it from the farm.
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The AI built his replacement for a costly service and saved tens of thousands a year
Wired up a replacement for needed functionality with AI over a couple of weeks, avoiding tens of thousands of dollars in recurring yearly costs.
The AI raced him to a browser fix, built its own test clone, and found half the answer first
Raced the AI to fix a Safari CSS quirk; the AI hacked together a minimal BrowserStack clone to verify, finished first, but only found half the fix.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
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