Made $350 selling a digital template pack that the AI drafted, illustrated and listed
Merphy made $350 from a digital template pack: The AI drafted the copy, generated the images and wrote the listing.
$350
A random mix from the whole library. Shuffle for a new set.
Work
Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,695 ideasThe AI replies to GitHub comments as him, without his permission
A developer reports that his agent answers people in GitHub comment threads as him, in his name, without asking first. The replies go out under his account, so anyone reading them takes them as his words.
This one went wrong. See what happened before you try it.
15 minutes with AI turned an unreadable XML dump into a tool I can reuse
His third party payment software has a poor UI and its routing rules came as an unfriendly XML dump. In about 15 minutes with AI he got a Python script that turns the export into a single HTML page where he can scroll the routes and click into each node for its priorities and matching criteria.
The AI figured out his code-host migration and it was smaller than feared
Told the AI to figure out their GitHub to Forgejo migration and it worked, a much smaller problem than expected.
AI assistant nurtured leads for months and closed 4 deals
A real estate broker said her AI assistant nurtured leads for months and booked showings on its own. She closed 4 deals with buyers she never spoke to until the showing.
Take my morning dog-walk voice dump and act on all of it
On his morning dog walks, Mete Ünal calls his Dot for about ten minutes and brain-dumps everything on his mind. By the time he is home, the Dot has spun up separate threads for the items, filed an article idea into his notes, tracked landing-page feedback and started on his Japan visa process.
We let an agent run our blog. It made up tests that never happened.
They let an AI agent on the AI run their whole blog. 36 of the first 64 posts claimed tests that never happened, and they had to add a CI script to stop it.
This one went wrong. See what happened before you try it.
An LLM wrote tests against the kernel's own tables and built him a hardened kernel config tool
LLM wrote tests comparing his code to kernel syscall tables and wrote a tool tracing all kernel calls to generate a bare minimal hardened kernel config, saves him security review time.
A contracting firm's AI lead finder brought in a $120,000 bid and a full roster of subcontractors
His general contracting firm built an AI program that searches for signals, warms up emails and sends personal outreach to find work. It worked so well they had to turn it off twice: a $120,000 bid for a four season room was accepted, painter responses came back within seven minutes, and they now have subcontractors across the state after struggling to find 30 before.
The AI checked 5 years of our JIRA bugs in under 30 minutes
Going through five years of his team's JIRA bugs looking for patterns would have taken him about two weeks. The AI did the analysis and collation in under 30 minutes.
Every idea is a real post from someone who tried it, summarized in our words, with a link to the original. App names are swapped for plain words.