Nerdy Hacks (page 4)

Sales rep has ChatGPT turn his PDF and Excel price sheets into a quoting tool that runs in the browser

A sales rep gave ChatGPT all the pricing files he uses for custom quotes and had it build an interactive quoting tool that runs in the browser, cutting a quote from 20-plus minutes to about five.

From 20+ minutes to about 5 minutes per quote · their claim

Spotted on Cristian Liani (@liani_does)

Founder has Gemini Notebook (NotebookLM) check a raw business plan against an MBA book and a video, then build a mind map and pitch deck

A founder uploaded a rough business plan with an MBA book and an entrepreneurship video to Gemini Notebook, formerly NotebookLM, which checked the plan against their frameworks and produced a refined strategy, a mind map and a pitch deck.

Under 10 minutes · their claim

Spotted on @priteshkgupta

Online seller has Claude reconcile platform transactions and draft month-end entries

An online seller lets QuickBooks handle bank transactions while Claude works through API transactions, reconciles them, writes month-end journal entries and updates cost of goods from invoices in Google Drive.

Spotted on u/Easterncoaster

Hobbyist lists Suno jazz instrumentals on itch.io as game soundtrack assets and makes a first sale

A hobbyist uploaded a couple of Suno instrumental jazz tracks to itch.io as low-priced, AI-labeled game soundtrack assets, and three months and about 20 views later someone bought one.

Spotted on u/WuxiaScrub

Family historian exports ancestors by county from Ancestry and has ChatGPT merge the lists to plan a research trip

Before a research trip to two North Carolina counties, a genealogy creator filtered their Ancestry tree by place, pasted each county's list into ChatGPT to merge, and asked it where the local libraries, museum and deeds office are.

Spotted on Genealogy TV 2

Pet owner removes a leash and swaps a car-seat background for a Halloween scene with Nano Banana Pro

Someone took a portrait of their dog in the back seat of a car and asked Nano Banana Pro in Gemini to remove the leash and give it a festive Halloween background, while keeping the dog's face, markings, expression and bandana.

Spotted on u/rurbornse

Small brand owner has Claude Code build one inbox that drafts every customer reply

An e-commerce owner had Claude Code build a phone-friendly web app that turns every email, Facebook and Instagram message and comment into a ticket with a drafted reply, order details from Shopify and Amazon, and buttons for refunds, cancellations and return labels.

Spotted on Alex Willen (The Automated Operator)

Office worker has Copilot read email and Teams chats each morning and write a ranked to-do list into Excel

Instead of scrolling back through emails and Teams messages to remember what they'd agreed to do, a user has Copilot read both every morning, pull out the tasks, rank them and add them to one Excel file.

Spotted on @exceldictionary

Maker engraves herb garden tags with QR codes that open ChatGPT with a prompt about the herb and recipe ideas

For a DIY vertical herb garden, a maker put a QR code on the back of each herb tag that automatically prompts ChatGPT to explain the herb and suggest culinary uses, and shared the codes for free.

Spotted on On To The Next

Creator makes a 30-second spec ad from one product photo with Google Flow visuals, a Suno jingle and a CapCut edit

After seeing a trending drinks ad, a creator who makes commercial videos built their own 30-second spec version from a single product photo, using Google Flow for the scenes, Suno for the jingle and CapCut to edit.

Spotted on @BlessCreates

Listener has AI lightly rewrite articles before ElevenLabs reads them aloud

A Hacker News user who turns articles into audio with ElevenLabs shares one tip: ask an AI agent to rewrite the article slightly for listening first, because small changes to sentence structure make it more pleasant to hear.

Spotted on kolinko (Hacker News)

Teacher turns a colleague's paper test into a ready-to-use Google Form in about five minutes with Diffit

When another teacher came with a test that only existed on paper and needed it digital, a teacher uploaded it to Diffit and had a Google Form ready within five minutes instead of retyping every question.

Spotted on u/frizziefrazzle

Photographer with ADHD runs their business planning through ChatGPT

A photographer and videographer connects an always-on ChatGPT agent to Notion and Google Drive to plan each day, draft social posts and watch competitors.

Spotted on u/Ice2jc

Patient records doctor visits and keeps a Gemini Notebook of their history, test results and research

A patient has AI transcribe recorded doctor conversations and keeps a Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) filled with their history, test results and articles, then asks it for a summary and recommendations at each stage of treatment.

Spotted on clemencello (Hacker News)

Storyteller makes 28-minute mystery radio dramas with ElevenLabs v4 voices, sound effects and music

A creator of AI-labeled mystery audio dramas runs the whole voice, sound and music layer on ElevenLabs, with a short direction tag on every line. They shared what worked, such as overlapping interruptions and capping whispers.

Spotted on u/MaTeZZ

Product maker has Claude map every specialty store for outreach

A bird-feeding product seller used Claude to build a list of Wild Birds Unlimited stores, their owners and which camera feeders each one stocks.

Spotted on u/Choclit99

Founder fills in a proposal template, then has ChatGPT tighten it

A founder stopped writing proposals from scratch: they fill in the blanks in one template doc and have ChatGPT tighten the result.

About 2 hours down to 20 minutes per proposal · their claim

Spotted on u/Aware_Risk7076

Teacher with three different preps gives NotebookLM only their own resources, then has it draft presentations and study guides

To keep up with three preps both semesters and still leave work at school, a teacher uses NotebookLM so it only works from the resources they provide, then generates presentations and study guides from them.

Spotted on u/MrMurrayOHS

Developer dictates every Claude prompt using VoiceInk and a remapped media remote

A Hacker News user says they now code with Claude almost entirely by voice, using the VoiceInk dictation app and a small Bluetooth media remote whose buttons they remapped to dictate, delete a word, add a new line, submit and scroll.

Spotted on crazygringo (Hacker News)

Podcast host dictates a prompt and has Claude rebuild their guest signup in Make

A real estate investor who hosts a podcast replaced an old Zapier setup by planning with ChatGPT, dictating the prompt, and having Claude build a Calendly to Make to Monday.com guest signup workflow.

Spotted on @GabePetersen

Working parent uses ChatGPT to design a custom-themed 10th birthday party with character cards, clue cards and storyboards

Instead of a store-bought theme, a full-time working parent of three had ChatGPT help design a party built around their daughter's interests, then printed character cards for each guest, a clue-card treasure hunt and comic-style storyboards of the kids.

Spotted on Life with the Choi's

Non-editor cuts a five-episode audio series by editing the transcript

A self-described amateur is editing a five-episode audio-only series in Descript by editing the transcript, and found the desktop app fixed the bugs that plagued the browser version.

Spotted on u/GinsbergianWindpipe

Teacher combining two lessons into one day uploads both slide decks to Gemini and asks for one file with a matching style

When a teacher decides to squeeze two lessons into one class, they upload the slides to Gemini and ask it to make them one file with a matching style, instead of copying and restyling slides by hand.

Spotted on u/ThatOnePK

Person uses Copilot to help send a demand letter and complaint to an insurance company, which paid within a week

In a dispute with an insurance company, a person used Copilot to help put together and send a demand letter and a complaint, and says the insurer paid within a week.

Spotted on @jayw1848