Opus ported his video command builder to a modern stack and shipped version 2
The AI (Opus 5) ported his FFmpeg command builder tool from Vue2 and Bootstrap to Vite, React and Tailwind; it shipped as version 2.0.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,695 ideasHe pointed 11 fresh agents at his own product and only 3 finished
Pointed 11 cold AI agents at his own product and only 3 finished (result stated in the post title itself).
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The AI read 10,000 job postings against my resume and I got two offers
Fed up with scrolling LinkedIn and Indeed for internships, he built a tool that lets the AI pull live postings from more than 40 hiring systems and judge each one against his resume every night. Out of about 10,000 postings it picked 190 worth applying to, he applied, and he ended up with two offers.
Agent workflows I built make our invoices and send our emails
A 24 year old AI engineer at an elevator industry company in New York says he built agent workflows into the internal work system. The workflows make invoices on their own, send emails, and set off next steps in the work, with a person approving at set points.
Match every rent payment across Venmo, Zelle, Cash App and Section 8
A landlord’s the AI rent desk matches incoming Venmo, Zelle, Cash App and Section 8 payments to his property sheet, reminds tenants before rent is due and escalates when a payment goes past due. Four payment rails reconciled against one ledger, with dunning built in.
File everything I text myself into the right category
Shreya Agarwal connected the AI to WhatsApp so every thought, task and reminder she messages herself is classified and stored automatically, with deadlines extracted — a 'cancel the free trial in two months' note becomes a task dated today plus 60 days. Setup took under 15 minutes and new categories are created by the agent as new kinds of items appear.
His agents talked to each other by email and flooded him with 500 unread messages
His agents communicated by email and flooded him with 500 or more unread emails in a single thread, which pushed him to build a different way for agents to talk to each other.
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The AI checked if my NMR experiment could work while I ate dinner
He had an idea for an NMR experiment he had been sitting on for years. The AI did the literature review, found reference data, ran spin and spectrum simulations, checked if the idea could work, and compared it with other methods, all while he ate dinner and watched TV.
Build websites on your own idea and sell them to local businesses
The user's the AI came up with the idea itself: it built websites and the user made the calls, closing two sales out of roughly 50 outreach attempts to local businesses.
Review my Salesforce pipeline and flag the deals going stale
In CData's worked test, a Dot queried live Salesforce data through one plugin and tabled the five largest open opportunities closing this quarter, flagging all five with no logged activity in 30 days. One deal was still open six days past its close date; the account used test data, as the post discloses.
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