Nerdy Hacks (page 5)

Subscriber lets ChatGPT handle Adobe's cancellation support chat and gets the early termination fee waived

Unable to find a cancel button for an unused Creative Cloud plan, a subscriber had ChatGPT open Adobe's support chat and negotiate; after it calmly repeated the same clear requests, Adobe waived an early termination fee of AUD 394.99 including tax.

AUD 394.99 early termination fee waived · their claim

Spotted on u/Bit_Blitter

Blue-collar service owner has Claude create invoices in the CRM

A service business owner connected Claude to Jobber through the API so it creates the first draft of each invoice under custom merge and split rules the CRM lacked.

Spotted on u/Typical_Tie_4947

Business traveler gives Gemini their company travel policy and gets a last-minute layover hotel plus walking directions

Stuck with an unexpected overnight layover at Heathrow, a traveler told Gemini their company policy limits, how tired they were and their next flight, and got a hotel that fit plus step-by-step directions from the gate to the room.

Spotted on @Patti881921424

Podcast host uses ElevenLabs to turn a Japanese-language interview into an English episode in the speakers' cloned voices

For an episode recorded in Japanese with a building executive in Fukuoka, a podcast host used ElevenLabs to clone the original Japanese audio into English and published the English version.

Spotted on @rowe

Solo business owner has Codex write a data-entry script, then an in-house shipping tool

A solo business owner picks the single most time-consuming job, has Codex write a Python script to automate it, then moves to the next, including a PHP shipping tool built on EasyPost.

Spotted on u/BlueRidgeTog

Consultant has Claude learn a builder's writing style from six months of sent email

For a building company, an AI consultant had Claude read six months of sent emails, group them by recipient and purpose, and turn the patterns into a skill that drafts inquiry replies.

Spotted on Blake Harkness

Office worker asks Copilot in Excel what to check before sending a budget report, and it catches a duplicate invoice

Before sending a budget report, a worker asked Copilot in Excel for a list of checks to run; the figures held up, a duplicate contractor invoice was zeroed out, and the corrected total matched the raw export.

Spotted on @Cliffinkent

Builder sets up an n8n inbox that sorts client email and drafts replies, never sends

For a client buried in leads, support requests and invoices, a builder made an n8n workflow that labels and prioritizes Gmail, drafts replies using a knowledge base, and flags anything sensitive for a person.

Spotted on u/Either-Nerve116

Small company runs about 20 scheduled ChatGPT jobs that check orders against the CRM and draft invoices overnight

Every night ChatGPT pulls the company's completed orders, checks them against CRM entries, drafts invoices in the accounting system for review and logs them in a Google Sheet, while other jobs file NDAs and fill in insurance requirements.

Doing the work of 3 people · their claim

Spotted on @SunnyvaleSBay

Video editor has Claude Code rough-cut a two-track video in DaVinci Resolve

A video editor pointed Claude Code at their footage folder and a DaVinci Resolve project, had it transcribe and build a rough cut across camera and screen-recording tracks, then spent under 30 minutes cleaning it up.

Spotted on Angelo Diaz

Blind listener who uses text-to-speech every day switches to ElevenReader for books that sound like audiobooks

A totally blind user who relies on text-to-speech daily listened to books in ElevenReader with the v4 voices on the free plan, and says they can no longer tell it apart from a well-recorded audiobook.

Spotted on u/ZB_Makes_Music_2013

Newsletter writer lets AI draft three issues: open rates hold, but replies drop and a reader notices

A weekly newsletter writer with about 700 subscribers had AI draft sections of three issues from their past issues and outlines. First drafts went from about 2 hours to 35 minutes and open rates stayed flat, but replies fell and one reader said they sounded tired.

Spotted on u/Zunab_Tariq

Teacher drafts a Bloom's taxonomy worksheet in ChatGPT, then checks it against a trusted source in NotebookLM

To avoid copy-paste recall worksheets, a teacher prompted ChatGPT with Bloom's verbs for each skill level on a Grade 9 Industrial Revolution unit, assembled the tasks in Word, then added a web source to NotebookLM and asked whether the worksheet matched it.

Spotted on Teachers Tech

Tutorial creator has Claude Code run transcription, cuts, animations and sound for every video

A non-coder YouTuber built a Claude Code editing setup where Parakeet transcribes, Hyperframes renders animations, Tella handles screen recordings, Epidemic Sound supplies music and FFmpeg finishes the file, all guided by a 1,400-line style skill.

Thousands of dollars a month · their claim

Spotted on Christian Peverelli

Audio fiction maker learns to use fewer emotion tags on ElevenLabs v4

A creator of phone audio dramas made a 55-minute, six-voice story on ElevenLabs v4 and found that a handful of emotion tags and careful punctuation steer the read best.

Spotted on u/Sad_Ad_4320

Insurance agent runs a HeyGen clone of themselves with a strict "face budget"

A one-person business owner built a HeyGen photo avatar and voice clone, has Claude write and assemble videos from 60-to-90-second chunks, and shows their face only for the hook, big moments and ending to save credits.

Spotted on Tyler Mougey

Small business has staff put receipts into ChatGPT to get a CSV their expense software can import

Their expense software only handled electronic data, so paper receipts meant manual entry. Instead of paying for a receipt-scanning app, staff now give receipts to ChatGPT, which returns a CSV the existing software understands.

Avoided buying a new receipt-scanning app · their claim

Spotted on true_religion

Home cook moves recipes into a Notion database, connects it to Claude, and has Claude add new recipes and build meal plans and lists

A home cook keeps every recipe in a Notion database with images, and since connecting it to Claude just sends a link or recipe for Claude to add with all the details, or asks it to pick five meals and make a grocery list.

Spotted on u/lifebeyondzebra

Solo IT support business uses Gemini to turn shorthand field notes into work orders, quotes and client emails

A one-person IT support business that runs on Google Workspace uses Gemini to structure rough tablet notes into standard work orders, draft quotes from parts and labor lists, and explain tech problems in plain English.

Spotted on u/Historical-Ranger222

Meta's AI assistant finds unclaimed insurance money and walks someone through the claim form in about 20 minutes

A user says Meta's AI assistant found unclaimed insurance money they didn't know about, then walked them through the whole claim, including the form, fixing the PDF and the upload.

Unclaimed insurance money recovered · their claim

Spotted on @jamesdtoole

Parent uses ChatGPT to book a private chef and pull together a two-family ski trip by talking while walking the dog

A person started using ChatGPT for personal errands: it found private chefs for a birthday dinner, emailed them for quotes, handled replies and summarized options, then researched and organized a ski trip with another family.

Spotted on @pauldm

Sales rep hooks Claude into their CRM to fill leads, log calls and say who to follow up with

A salesperson connected Claude to their CRM so it fills their lead list, logs their calls, flags which leads are worth a follow-up, and pulls the last call's transcript before a callback.

Spotted on u/nonibear89

Busy parent connects Gemini to Gmail and has it find school events in their inbox and add 10 of them to Google Calendar

A parent who wanted AI for everyday family life, not business, turned on Gemini's Google Workspace connection, asked it to pull event dates out of their email, removed one from the list and had Gemini create the other 10 calendar events with details.

Spotted on Jen | The AI Mom

Teacher builds a Copilot agent for each admin directive that rewrites their lesson plans in the language admin wants

Facing ever-growing lesson plan paperwork, a teacher set up three Copilot agents purely for admin tasks; the favorite is fed all of admin's directives plus their lesson plans and returns what they did in admin's preferred wording.

Spotted on u/StoneofForest