Nerdy Hacks (page 14)

Domain seller exports 1,200+ listings to Excel and asks ChatGPT which ones are badly underpriced

A domain name seller exported their 1,200+ listings into an Excel file, asked ChatGPT to identify the top 50 that were severely underpriced, and adjusted 80 of 100 suggestions right away.

Spotted on @fmercaldo

Creator batches a month of Canva posts from one Claude project

A creator set up a Claude project with her audience, brand voice and content pillars, then had it build single-image posts, carousels and reels in Canva in one batch.

30 days of content in under an hour · their claim

Spotted on Modern Millie

Car buyer runs every VIN, buy order and dealer message past Gemini and negotiates a fair out-the-door price

A buyer who found dealerships intimidating used Gemini to research common problems, check VINs and buy orders, and negotiate over text, and it caught mismatched tires on a car they almost bought.

Spotted on u/WuggahWuggah

One-person sock maker has Shopify Sidekick build Flow automations that track the order queue and show customers a start date

A maker who knits one pair of socks a day asked Shopify Sidekick to build Shopify Flow automations that track how long the order queue is, then show the next open slot on the store and in order confirmation emails.

Spotted on @KevinCotedge

Diner at a German restaurant asks ChatGPT to picture every dish on a menu they couldn't read

Faced with menu names they didn't recognize at a new German restaurant, a diner photographed the menu and asked ChatGPT to make images of the dishes; it produced 9 images covering all 37 items.

Spotted on @tristanbob

Podcaster skips auto-clip buttons and asks an LLM to find the best moments in the transcript

A podcaster who found auto-clip tools grab the loud moments instead of the good ones pastes the episode transcript into Claude or ChatGPT and asks for the strongest 30 to 60 second moments with timestamps, then cuts them by hand.

Spotted on u/herrdan

Home alone during a basement leak, someone sends Gemini photos and a short video and gets step-by-step fix instructions

When heavy rain made a sump pump connection slip and flood the basement, a person with little handyman experience sent Gemini photos and a short video and was guided to shut it off safely and patch it in minutes.

Spotted on u/SadOnion2110

Freelancer turns a coach's tired PDF freebie into a Gamma lead-magnet deck with a video and sign-up form

A freelance assistant rebuilt a fintech coach's outdated budget PDF as a Gamma presentation in about 30 minutes, with a short Loom walkthrough and a Typeform sign-up embedded, and says it brought in 27 qualified leads in 48 hours.

Spotted on @EkawuFreedom

New gym-goer gets a calisthenics and aesthetics plan from ChatGPT by giving it their weight, routine, diet and goals

Someone who couldn't find a ready-made plan for their goals gave ChatGPT their weight, daily routine, usual meals and goals, followed the plan for five months while tweaking it, and says it changed their life. Others in the thread use it for running and marathon training.

Spotted on u/Maleficent-Season713

Customer success manager runs Claude scheduled tasks for call briefs, meeting notes and a weekly account digest

A customer success manager set up Claude scheduled tasks that build a pre-call brief for each meeting, log notes and draft follow-up emails after calls, and rank their accounts every Monday. Nothing goes out to customers without their review.

Spotted on u/witty__bitty

Student loads textbooks and lecture notes into NotebookLM and asks for the most likely exam questions with answers

With 48 hours before a final, a former NotebookLM skeptic uploaded 4 textbooks, 3 sets of lecture notes and 12 articles, asked for the 20 most likely exam questions with full answers, and passed with their best grade of the semester.

Spotted on u/Fine_Doubt_4507

Solo lawyer has Perplexity draft a settlement agreement and a purchase agreement, then checks them against their own templates

A lawyer described a client dispute to Perplexity and got a full settlement and release draft, then had it draft a 31-page equipment purchase agreement and compared both with templates built over 23 years.

Billable hours cut by more than half · their claim

Spotted on @anessasantoslaw

School librarian uses ChatGPT to turn a year of student messages into a vintage library keepsake

At the end of the school year, a school librarian gathered the messages they got from students and staff and used ChatGPT to make them pretty with a vintage library background and old books.

Spotted on @DartezKendra

SEO creator connects Claude Cowork to Google Business Profile to answer reviews and post weekly

An AI search creator connected Claude Cowork to Google Business Profile through PostProxy's MCP connector, then uses short prompts to reply to good reviews, draft careful replies to bad ones, and turn blog pages into Google posts before scheduling the routine.

Spotted on Nico (AI Ranking)

Volunteer church teacher makes a Noah's Ark coloring page with Gemini and compares it with other chatbots

Preparing a church lesson on Noah's Ark, someone asked AI image tools for a coloring page with a big rainbow at the top; Gemini gave the best result, Grok colored in the rainbow, and ChatGPT struggled.

Spotted on @JordanSorensen9

Virtual assistant uses HeyGen to make a busy client's weekly team video

An executive virtual assistant had a client who never found time to record his weekly video for his team, so the assistant made the video in HeyGen for him instead.

Spotted on @Aanubabalola8

Writer for small businesses turns one recorded client interview into a blog post, newsletter and more with ChatGPT

A writer who makes content for small business clients records a 30-minute call, gets a transcript, and runs five prompts in ChatGPT to draft a blog post, a LinkedIn post, a newsletter, FAQ entries and captions in the client's voice.

3+ hours per project · their claim

Spotted on u/Street-Gate7322

Dog treat shop owner hands Shopify SEO cleanup and blog posting to Claude

A small e-commerce owner who admits SEO was never their strength gave Claude access to their Shopify store and Google Search Console, approved its fixes for missing titles, meta descriptions and alt text, and let it post one blog article a day.

Spotted on Alex Willen (The Automated Operator)

Teacher adds NotebookLM infographics to lesson slides and makes study videos and audio live in class

A teacher showed their students how to use NotebookLM for studying, added NotebookLM infographics to their slides, and generated videos and audio files on various topics right in front of the class.

Spotted on @talentosprecato

Long-running podcaster finally gets intro music by making a 3-second jingle in Suno

A podcaster whose show went 15 years without music, because they never found the right song, used Suno to make a 3-second intro that sings the podcast's name.

Spotted on @AndrewWarner

Recruiter builds an AI phone line that checks their Calendly for open slots

A physician recruiter who doesn't code much had ChatGPT suggest a free-tier stack, then built a phone agent with Twilio, Vapi and Calendly, with Cursor writing the code, so callers hear open times for a 30-minute intro call.

Spotted on Matt Fuller

Podcaster picks clips with Claude, then sends cuts to Descript

A podcaster reads through the transcript with Claude to pick clip moments, then has Claude send the cut list to Descript.

Spotted on u/herrdan

Football jersey shop starts writing Google Business Profile updates with Gemini after a visibility dip

When a Lagos jersey shop saw its Google Business Profile visibility slide after the holiday rush, the owner kept posting regular updates but switched to writing them with Gemini instead of ChatGPT, and visibility slowly picked back up.

Spotted on @MakeleleJerseys

Web developer looking for clients has ChatGPT redesign a Facebook ad poster into a cleaner image fit for running ads

A web developer took an ad poster they'd seen on Facebook and had ChatGPT redesign it into a new image they judged fit for running their own Facebook ads to find clients.

Spotted on @Njoagwuani_