Nerdy Hacks (page 13)

Professional uses ChatGPT to write opening emails to their LinkedIn network: 5 sent, 4 calls, 1 new client

Instead of agonizing over how to reopen old connections, a professional had ChatGPT draft opening emails to people in their LinkedIn network; of the first 5 sent, 4 led to calls and 1 turned into business.

Spotted on @Subhash_ati9

Ecommerce freelancer pulls Omnisend campaign data through Claude

A freelancer who runs email for Shopify clients connects Claude to Omnisend to pull campaign data, adjust automations and check segment performance without switching apps.

Spotted on u/Relative-Arachnid129

Professional uses NotebookLM to make an infographic explaining their service and shares the exact prompt

To explain their work simply, a professional had NotebookLM generate an infographic of what they do, using a story-style prompt pitched at an eighth-grade reading level.

Spotted on @SteveROIBrown

Teacher exports a NotebookLM slide deck to PowerPoint, then uses Canva's Magic Eraser to replace the baked-in text

NotebookLM's slide decks come out as images, so the wording can't be edited directly. An educator exported one as PowerPoint, imported it into Canva, and used Magic Eraser's Text option to wipe the words and write their own.

Spotted on @alicekeeler

Wedding photographer pastes their Google reviews into ChatGPT to find what clients keep saying, then rewrites their bridal show booth

Instead of describing their work with the same words as every other photographer, a wedding photographer had ChatGPT find repeated themes in their reviews and used them for their website, emails and booth signs.

Spotted on Nicole Kirk Photography

Shop owner finally understands the accountant's reports with Claude

A shop owner of eight years asked Claude to explain each line of the accountant's reports in plain English and found a losing product line and a forgotten bill.

Spotted on u/Regular_Size_1279

Finance worker studying for a licensing exam splits the study manual into chapters and has NotebookLM make an audio overview of each

Studying for a finance licensing exam, a Reddit user loaded each chapter of the study manual into NotebookLM as its own source, used one prompt to get long, thorough audio overviews, then made quizzes and slides chapter by chapter.

Spotted on u/Lost-Try-9348

Founder turns a one-hour recorded interview into a captioned social clip with Descript

Interview footage usually sat unused on a founder's laptop, so they put a one-hour recording into Descript, which transcribed it, picked out clips and handled the edits; the first clip took under 20 minutes.

Spotted on @ryanbozarth

Newsletter creator connects Kit to ChatGPT and asks plain-English questions about subscriber groups

Instead of sifting through Kit analytics by hand, a creator connected their email list to ChatGPT and now asks detailed questions about new signup groups and their engagement, getting answers in about 30 seconds.

Spotted on @nevmed

Consultant drafts slide text in Markdown, then has Claude build branded HTML decks

A consultant turned their brand guidelines into a Claude skill, reviews every slide's content as plain Markdown first, and then has Claude render a branded HTML deck exported to PDF for clients.

Spotted on u/coolreddy

Every Sunday, a content coach has Perplexity research audience pain points and builds the week's posts around them

A coach who grows audiences for founders gives Perplexity a full picture of the person and what they sell, asks for their ideal customers' pain points and recent conversation topics, and plans that week's content from the answers.

Spotted on @arnoeu_

Professional compares AI slide tools for turning rough notes into a branded deck and picks Manus

Wanting to drop rough notes into a company-branded PowerPoint theme without doing the design, a finance professional tried several AI slide tools and found Manus produced the most polished deck while respecting what they meant.

Spotted on @anantggupta

Freelancer has Codex build their own timesheet, invoicing and bookkeeping app from a spec

A freelance developer wrote a spec and had Codex build a timesheet, invoicing and basic bookkeeping system for their business; they say it got everything right in one go except the PDF invoice layout.

Spotted on davedx (Hacker News)

Small consultancy drafts, redesigns and reworks decks with Claude

A consultant at a two-to-three person firm uses Claude to draft storylines from notes, improve slide layouts with the PowerPoint add-in, and rework decks and templated documents with Cowork.

Spotted on u/AvidSkier9900

Shop owner uploads inventory and sales reports to NotebookLM and gets a four-week purchase order

A business owner with 674 different items uploaded an inventory summary and the last four weeks of sales reports to NotebookLM and asked it to build a purchase order to cover the next four weeks.

About 3 hours per purchase order · their claim

Spotted on @AndriFuture

Someone starting an online resale business has Perplexity Computer research wholesale products and net margins

Planning to resell products online on a small budget, a person asked Perplexity Computer to find wholesale products with strong margins and got back a 14-page research document.

Days of manual research · their claim

Spotted on @AnikCodes

Person records their thoughts on walks and transcribes them at home with local Whisper

Someone who thinks out loud on walks records with cheap headphones and a voice recorder app, transcribes the audio at home with a local copy of Whisper, and keeps everything in a searchable database.

Spotted on prometheus76

Content studio has Claude load approved clips into the Metricool calendar

A content studio added Metricool as a custom connector in Claude and prompts it to place approved short clips on the content calendar for Facebook, YouTube Shorts and TikTok; they say they scheduled 50-plus posts in about two to three hours.

Spotted on COMMAND

Photographer turns a plain white wall into a curved infinity studio after the shoot with Nano Banana

A model wanted an infinity white backdrop the studio didn't have, so the photographer shot against a plain white wall anyway and afterward used Nano Banana, with prompts written by ChatGPT, to make the space look like a curved infinity studio.

Spotted on @OrangeIsAi

Middle school computer science teacher makes a short Suno song to explain functions

A middle school computer science teacher whose students weren't clear on functions made a quick song about them in Suno and had the class listen together instead of giving another lecture.

Spotted on @MSmakerRight

Middle school teacher asks ChatGPT to rank chosen conference sessions by impact on students

Before a summer education conference, a middle school teacher used ChatGPT to evaluate the sessions they had picked for the biggest impact on their students, and it also made a neat graphic of the final choices.

Spotted on @willmaynard1

Business owner keeps their books in Beancount with Claude Code, a read-only bank CLI and synced email

A small business owner keeps their accounts as plain-text Beancount files, gives Claude Code a read-only bank connection and their synced email, and lets it keep the books current. They then worked through a complicated tax return with Claude Code advising.

Spotted on arjie

Small business owner loads policies and procedures into NotebookLM and has staff ask it before asking the boss

A business owner put company policies, work instructions and procedures into NotebookLM, made it the company's central info center, and requires employees to chat with it before bringing questions to them.

Spotted on u/Ok_Loan6535

Startup investor posts twice every weekday using Perplexity for ideas and data and Buffer to schedule

To post 10 times a week on LinkedIn and X, an investor blocks 90 minutes each morning, uses Perplexity to find ideas and add data to posts, parks random ideas in Buffer and schedules everything there, even before vacations.

Spotted on @mikewchan