Nerdy Hacks (page 15)

Handmade accessories maker turns phone shots into styled product images with free ChatGPT

A maker of handbags and accessories turned a phone photo of their scrunchie into a styled product image with free ChatGPT, using a five-part prompt and a workaround for a distorted logo.

Spotted on L.J. Millfield

Realtor has Claude score leads and file them into Follow Up Boss from screenshots

A real estate agent connected Claude to Follow Up Boss so it ranks who to follow up with each morning, adds leads from text-message screenshots or voice, and rewrites generic drip sequences around their own videos.

Spotted on William Zhang

Solo founder with an auditory processing disorder has Gemini trim meeting transcripts into notes they can review

A founder who finds spoken technical detail hard to follow records meetings and runs the transcriptions through Gemini to cut the filler and summarize what was agreed.

Spotted on u/bigsadkittens

Everyday user has ChatGPT parse receipts and shipping confirmations into one spreadsheet

The one ChatGPT habit a user says they'd keep above all others: pasting in receipts and shipping confirmation emails and having them turned into a clean spreadsheet they can search later.

About 15 minutes a week · their claim

Spotted on u/enupim

Facebook Marketplace seller has ChatGPT write listings, tags and asking prices

Wanting to sell things faster on Facebook Marketplace, someone asked ChatGPT to write the description and tags for each listing and suggest an asking price; they listed 4 items that day and say 3 sold.

Spotted on @JaneOnAI

Solopreneur turns one long sales page chat into a Claude skill they can reuse

After days of back and forth with Claude to build a sales page that converted, a solo business owner had Claude read back over the conversation and write a reusable skill with the same structure, copy method, voice and visual style.

Spotted on Cordelia Kate

Parent scans textbook pages and has Gemini make quizzes and spelling drills for the kids

A parent photographs pages from the kids' textbooks and has Gemini turn them into multiple-choice quizzes, spelling-error texts to correct and dictation practice, plus asks it for coaching on helping with hard topics.

Spotted on u/LegitimateHall4467

Freelance designer makes Facebook video thumbnails in Gemini from a face photo and a scene prompt

A freelance graphic designer stopped spending hours on thumbnails: they upload a clear photo of their face to Gemini, describe the scene they want, and get a realistic background and visual elements in seconds, for clients and their own page.

Thumbnails in minutes instead of hours · their claim

Spotted on @iamtoufikpro (Toufik Day)

Language teacher builds a custom Gemini Study Partner in Google Classroom from their own vocabulary booklet

A head of modern languages created a Gem assignment in Google Classroom, loaded it with the class's own sentence-builder booklet, and got a personalized Spanish study partner for exam revision in minutes.

Spotted on Esmeralda Salgado (@BotonesSalgado, MFL Craft)

Beginner uses Claude as a personal Adobe Illustrator teacher and learns more in a day than in two years

Someone who had been tinkering with Adobe Illustrator for two years used Claude as a teacher they could keep asking questions, and says they learned more in that one day than in the previous two years.

Spotted on @starburstLuu

Copywriter loads 40+ client podcast transcripts into NotebookLM, pulls every customer-impact quote into a table, and turns them into case studies

A homepage copywriter transcribes a client's podcast episodes, adds the transcripts to NotebookLM and asks for every quote about customer impact in a table, then pastes the table into a custom Gemini Gem that drafts case studies.

1-2 days of work in under an hour · their claim

Spotted on u/alexnapierholland

Sales reps use AI to prep calls and rehearse objections

Reps use Claude to research a prospect before a call, run a weekly news digest, and role-play a tough buyer.

Spotted on u/Tennouheika

Creator stops copy-pasting by letting Claude build and update Notion pages directly

A productivity creator connected Claude to Notion with access to only chosen pages, then has it turn raw meeting and client-call notes into project pages with summaries, task lists and statuses.

Spotted on Benjamin Preston

Small email marketing team asks Claude for Klaviyo campaign reports instead of exporting them

A small digital agency connected Klaviyo to Claude through the built-in connector, so a weekly email report is a plain-English question and a one-paragraph summary instead of logging in and exporting.

20 to 30 minutes down to about 30 seconds · their claim

Spotted on Boko Digital Solutions

Marketing consultant turns each YouTube video into a local SEO article with Claude

A small-town marketing consultant has Claude turn each new YouTube video into a blog article aimed at the same keyword, with internal and external links, and uses Gemini to check search intent before adding content clusters.

Spotted on Wayne St Ledger

Newsletter writer connects Beehiiv to Claude so every issue gets a grade and a lesson

A newsletter writer with about 8,000 subscribers connected Beehiiv's MCP to Claude Cowork, which pulls their stats each week into a Google Sheet that grades each issue A to D and points out what to change next time.

Spotted on Brandon Smithwrick

AI coach turns one rough idea into a Substack article and a week of Notes with a Claude skill

An AI coach gives a custom Claude skill one rough idea and gets back a full Substack article, five to seven Notes and a posting schedule. They spend 20 to 30 minutes making it sound like them, then store it all in Notion.

Review takes twenty to thirty minutes · their claim

Spotted on Angelina Shively (AI Coaching with Angelina)

Podcaster has a Claude Code skill join, caption and level each episode, then ping them on Telegram

A podcast host built a Claude Code skill that takes the raw recording files, joins them, adds captions, balances audio and color, suggests intro clips, and sends a Telegram message when the episode is ready to check.

Spotted on Heaston Innovations

SEO writer has Claude build a content-brief app

An SEO writer used Claude to build a small local app that turns an article topic into a full content brief before any writing starts.

Spotted on u/Appropriate_Two_3965

Beauty business podcaster turns each episode transcript into show notes, a blog, an email and more with Claude

A podcaster who coaches salon and clinic owners puts every episode transcript into Claude and asks for YouTube and podcast show notes, a title, a blog post, a database email, a caption and a magazine-style article.

Spotted on Katie Godfrey

Creator has Claude build printables and post templates inside Canva using their brand kit

A Canva creator connects Claude to Canva, asks for a design "using my Canva brand kit", revises it in chat, and has Claude export the finished file as a PDF without opening Canva.

Spotted on Kate Hayes

Jewelry maker has AI build their online store, and their non-technical spouse now tweaks it with Claude Code

A programmer who sells science-inspired jewelry used AI to design their online store because they aren't a front-end developer, and their spouse, who has no technical background, now makes changes to the site with Claude Code.

Spotted on alphaBetaGamma

Sales rep points Claude at the day's meeting transcripts

A salesperson saves the day's Gemini meeting transcripts to a folder and has Claude work through the follow-up tasks from them.

Spotted on u/Ribeye_steak

Amazon seller sends photos of bad returns to a bot that writes the reimbursement case

An Amazon seller added a returns feature to their own Claude-powered Telegram and email bot: they send photos of the returned item, sticker and return slip, and it reads the tiny IDs and emails back a ready-to-file reimbursement case.

Spotted on Alex Willen (The Automated Operator)