Nerdy Hacks (page 11)

Sales rep builds proposals from call comments with GPT and Gemini

A sales rep has GPT draft proposals from templates plus what the client said on the call, then has Gemini lay them out in Google Slides.

Spotted on u/ClinTri-Boss

Cold emailer swaps Excel tracking for a dashboard built with Claude Code, n8n and Supabase

Someone running cold email campaigns whose reporting, lead management and CSV tracking in Excel had grown bigger than the outreach itself built their own cold email dashboard with Claude Code, n8n and Supabase.

Spotted on @imrnjh

Owner logs repeat tasks for two weeks, then hands them to n8n

A business owner wrote down every task they repeated for two weeks, found 23, and moved lead routing, email triage and weekly reports into n8n.

Spotted on u/iaminDigital

Educator takes conference notes entirely by hand, then uses NotebookLM to reflect and make an infographic for each session

At an education conference, a teacher took every note by hand for the first time, then fed them to NotebookLM to reflect on each session and produce an infographic summary.

Spotted on @TechRav

Homeowner has ChatGPT list the top 5 rated garage flooring companies in the area, then texts them all for quotes

Rather than filling out a form on every contractor's website, a homeowner asked ChatGPT for the top 5 rated garage flooring companies covering the area and texted each one their details for a quote.

Spotted on @randychipman

Sales rep has Claude grade deals against a scorecard

A sales rep feeds every call transcript for a deal into Claude with a MEDDICC/BANT scorecard so the forecast rests on the same rules each time.

Spotted on u/Icognitpro

Wedding photographers clean up shots with Lightroom's Generative Remove

Wedding photographers use Lightroom's AI Generative Remove to take distractions out of photos, and trade notes on how slow it can be.

Spotted on u/Venice_Photographer

Worshipper uses Gemini Live Translate to follow a Friday sermon in a language they don't know

Someone who used to feel disconnected listening to a Friday khutbah in a language they don't know used Gemini Live Translate during prayer and says it was flawless, real-time and natural.

Spotted on @m_anas_syed

Worker prepares for an unemployment appeal with ChatGPT and wins

After benefits were denied, a worker spent weeks with ChatGPT going over the hearing packet and practicing questions, and it kept steering them to the legal issue instead of every small detail. The judge reversed the denial.

Spotted on u/CleanandTall

Transformer maker builds its own ERP and quote tool with Claude

The owner of a manufacturing business that shrank from 15 to 3 staff built a custom ERP and CRM with Claude, including a design engine and one-click quotes.

Spotted on u/Adarsh_Ajith

Person makes a birthday song for their mom with Suno to say the thank-you they find hard to say out loud

Ahead of their mom's birthday, a person made a song with Suno thanking her for everything over the years, with every line something they really wanted to tell her; listening back to check it, they almost cried halfway through.

Spotted on @Shrek0519

Person asks Gemini to help build and organize a prayer list with scripture references to start the day

A person asked Gemini to help make a prayer list; they found the suggestions good, and Gemini organized them into parts and found scripture references for each, which became how they started their morning.

Spotted on @EquivCorgi827

Truck tire shop replaces a 20-page price sheet with a ChatGPT-built tool

A commercial tire and truck service business built a phone-friendly tire and parts lookup with ChatGPT Sites in an afternoon.

Spotted on u/Hacebeanbreakfast

Solo SaaS founder has a Claude Routine write and publish a blog post every day from search data

A solo SaaS founder set up a scheduled Claude Routine that reads their Search Console data through the Ahrefs connector, writes and fact-checks a blog post, and pushes it to GitHub so Vercel rebuilds the site, with no one reviewing it first.

Spotted on David Yu (Futureman Labs)

Small studio turns listing photos into AI video tours for realtors

A Miami video studio turns realtors' listing photos into cinematic property videos with Higgsfield and Nano Banana Pro, then finishes them in CapCut.

Under a week instead of 2 to 3 weeks · their claim

Spotted on Acost Studio

Parent asks Gemini to dig the early release time out of their kid's weekly school email

Needing to know what time school let out early that day, a parent asked Gemini to find the weekly email from their kid's school and pull out the time, and it found it, saving them a bunch of dead time.

Spotted on @PseudoAICoder

Special ed teacher asks ChatGPT for calming corner ideas using only the furniture already in the room

After a local business donated a rug, a special education teacher asked ChatGPT for ideas to set up a classroom calming corner around it using furniture they already had.

Spotted on @LoriLS79

Non-developer builds client websites with Claude Code

Someone with no web development background uses Claude Code to design websites for local restaurants, med spas and nonprofits, and has sold six.

Spotted on u/throw656598

Note-taking teacher points Claude Cowork at an Obsidian vault for a 6 a.m. daily brief

A note-taking educator with about 17,000 Obsidian notes gave Claude Cowork three map files (me.md, a vault map and a skill map) so it can find the right notes, and a scheduled skill writes a daily brief every morning.

Spotted on Nick Milo

Teacher writes lessons in Markdown and has a homemade tool turn them into Google Slides

A developer who also teaches built md2gslides, a small tool that converts Markdown into slides through the Google Slides API, to save effort on the lesson presentations they make all the time.

Spotted on michaelteter

App user explains a billing problem to ChatGPT, which drafts a Google Play refund request that's approved in 12 hours

Stuck on a purchase problem, a user explained the whole situation to ChatGPT, which walked them through it step by step, suggested contacting Google Play Support and drafted the refund request; Google Play refunded them within 12 hours.

Spotted on @farazktwt

Patient pastes a confusing medical bill into Claude, sends the dispute letter it drafts, and the bill drops to 180

Faced with a medical bill full of codes they couldn't read, someone asked Claude to explain every line and flag anything wrong. It found two duplicate charges and drafted a dispute letter citing the codes, and the revised bill came back far lower.

About 1,000 off one medical bill · their claim

Spotted on u/Kindly-Ambition-1796

Real estate agents use AI for showing routes and listing drafts

Agents use AI to plan afternoon showing tours with drive times, draft listing descriptions, and analyze neighborhood sales.

Spotted on u/Glad-Citron4651

Fitness-minded user gets a morning sleep brief and a Sunday workout, recipe and grocery plan from Perplexity Computer

Someone connected Apple Health to Perplexity Computer and set two scheduled tasks: a short morning read of last night's sleep and heart data, and a Sunday plan with workouts, recipes and a grocery list based on their recent health numbers.

Spotted on u/Suitablesouls9364