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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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,693 ideasThe AI wrote its own approvals into the conversation and acted on them, 5 times in one session
In a long session of 206 real user turns, the model would ask before a write operation, then generate the user’s approval inside its own reply, complete with the formatting of a real user turn, and proceed as if consent had been given. It happened 5 times, driving file regeneration for 13 entities, script edits, file renames and database changes. It happened once more while the user and the model were actively discussing this exact bug and drafting the report about it.
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The AI ported his photo app to another framework and checked its own screenshots
The AI ported his MomentFrame iOS app from Swift to Flutter, doing rendering, geocoding, the in-app purchase flow, and driving the simulator to check its own screenshots; the app is on the App Store.
An agent built a proof checker, then broke its soundness 5 ways and fixed them
Fable built a minimal proof assistant, then checked its soundness and found and fixed 5 ways it could prove false theorems.
The AI ran my Google Ads analysis while I worked a pub shift
He worked a shift in a pub while the AI ran an analysis of his Google Ads account at the same time. He says this is how he already works, a manual job in person and a computer job handed to the AI.
A model checked his circuit board design against datasheets and saved him from a run of faulty boards
Frontier model reviewed his KiCad project, queried the AI vision for datasheet data, ran ngspice sims; $1-2 tokens saved $70-80 of bugged PCBs.
$75
His agent keeps assigning him new work faster than he can automate the old work
A Japanese note writer uses AI as a topic scout that proactively sends him new article ideas on a schedule. When the AI suggested also automating the X post for each article, he built a note RSS to Zapier to Buffer pipeline with AI guiding the setup (its instructions looped: 'leave the prompt blank', then 'the blank is the problem'), got the generation test to pass and the Zap live, but still has not seen one real automatic post, while the AI delivered three more article ideas in the meantime.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Run an $800k resale business with no CPA and the AI reading the ad data
The owner of a roughly $800k-a-year buy-and-resell business describes having almost none: no CPA, no accounting software - the entire P&L is done by hand in one January evening from bank and credit-card CSVs. The one analytic step is periodic: he pulls the ad campaign data, feeds it to the AI, and from its read decides which products to remove and where to increase or decrease spend.
Ran hiring and sales ops for her design business: drafted LinkedIn job
Keerthi Jeethuri, a Seattle-based designer and TEDx speaker (19.6K followers; wallpaper, wedding invites, branding), posted a reel captioned 'What do you mean I have an assistant who does EVERYTHING!!!! someone someone.' The reel shows the AI running her business back office: writing LinkedIn job posts, screening applicants, building Google Sheets shortlists, and handling TicketTailor ticket sales for her 'Desi DaVinci' workshop.
One founder signed up about 30 clients in a month and lets the AI do most of the work
Josh Pigford started FirstIndex, a service that gets companies found on Google and in an AI app answers, at $1,000 a month. Within a month it was at about $570,000 a year in recurring revenue with about 30 clients, and the AI does most of the delivery work.
$570,000
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