Nerdy Hacks (page 16)

Shopify store owner has Claude triage the support inbox twice a day

An ecommerce coach's own Shopify store runs a Claude Cowork scheduled task at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. that reads support emails, checks the Shopify order and drafts a reply in Gmail for a person to send.

Hours of inbox time · their claim

Spotted on Brendan Gillen

Real estate agent has Claude Code write platform captions and post every video through Zernio

A real estate agent and creator built Claude Code skills that trim silences, cut clips, make thumbnails and write per-platform titles and tags, then hands the Zernio API key to Claude Code so it posts and schedules to every account.

Spotted on Aidan Holt

Blogger has Claude turn each new post into a Mailchimp draft, then approves it from Telegram

A freelance developer who kept forgetting to send their newsletter set up a GitHub Action that has Claude write a short newsletter from each new blog post, saves it as a Mailchimp draft, and waits for them to tap Approve in Telegram.

Spotted on David Dal Busco

Marketing consultant builds a six-email nurture drip with Claude Cowork's email-sequence skill

A B2B marketing consultant uses the Marketing plugin in Claude Cowork to plan and write an educational email drip that takes people from a free playbook download to a booked call, complete with send timing, branching, exit rules and A/B ideas.

Spotted on Tony Chan

Etsy seller has Claude design a sale banner through the Canva connector

An Etsy seller connected Canva inside Claude, asked what the connector could do on their plan, then had Claude make Mother's Day sale banners to finish in Canva.

Spotted on Handmade & Beyond

Creator automates weekly planning with a Friday Claude Cowork task

Every Friday at 4 p.m. a Claude Cowork automation reviews how the week went, checks it against quarterly and annual plans in Notion, and puts next week's time blocks on Google Calendar.

About 1.5 hours a week on planning · their claim

Spotted on Evan Tarver

RV rental owner uses Claude for a remodel, ads and tool choices

The owner of a 20-RV rental fleet in Los Angeles uses Claude to plan a low-cost interior remodel and to help with the website, ads and tool decisions.

Spotted on u/PVPirates

Ceramics shop owner has Claude find thin Shopify product pages and draft new copy

A student who runs a Shopify ceramics store connected Claude to it and runs one weekly prompt that lists products with missing or short descriptions and drafts on-brand replacements for approval.

Spotted on dapo

Motion design studio owner turns each client call transcript into a brief, tasks and a follow-up with Claude

A studio owner feeds client call transcripts to Claude with a custom skill, and gets a project brief, action items, a follow-up email and scope-creep flags by comparing against earlier calls in an Obsidian vault.

Spotted on Dave, Nexus Motion

Founder has Claude research anyone they're about to cold email or meet, then add them to a personal CRM

A founder built a research routine in Claude that takes one social link for someone they're about to cold email or meet and returns a career overview, three things they probably didn't know, and possible overlaps, then adds the person to their personal people CRM.

Spotted on @Jared_Seidel_

Store owner redesigns a Shopify store past the theme's limits

A Shopify owner spent three days with Claude Code and their brand voice to build a store design a standard theme couldn't give them.

Spotted on u/loosepantsbigwallet

Garden center owner uses Claude Research to find right-sized fleet tracking

A small business owner used Claude's research feature to find vehicle tracking services priced for a three-truck crew.

Spotted on @RoryTyer

Vintage reseller uses Claude for listing drafts and sales exports across six platforms, but writes buyer messages by hand

A vintage reseller on eBay, Etsy, Poshmark, Depop, Mercari and Vinted keeps a Claude project for listing drafts and built small tools for receipts, sales exports and photo batches. Customer service, condition checks and pricing calls stay with them.

Spotted on Yvonne Cheng (Bored Biddy)

Descript coach lets Claude cut bad takes, add chapters and publish a tutorial through Descript's connector

A Descript trainer connected Claude Desktop to Descript and had it remove bad takes and filler words, add chapter titles, speed up long pauses and publish the project, then counted the credits it used.

Spotted on Make Videos with Ross

Email agency owner builds on-brand campaign emails in Claude Design

An email marketing agency owner sets up a Claude Design design system for each brand from its website, guidelines and Figma file, then attaches an email-rules text file and a short brief so Claude asks questions and builds email variants.

Spotted on Max Sturtevant

Ghostwriter builds a Claude voice profile from past writing before any drafting

A newsletter writer and ghostwriter runs a voice-creation skill in Claude Cowork that interviews them and studies writing samples, then saves a voice profile skill that every other writing task calls first.

Spotted on Alex McFarland

Social media manager splits writing work across Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT, then schedules in Buffer

A social media manager drafts plans in Google Docs, uses Claude for long-form posts, Gemini to polish their English and ChatGPT to tidy up drafts they've written themselves, then makes visuals in Canva and schedules everything in Buffer.

Spotted on @Ayomide_Nuella