Nerdy Hacks (page 6)

Shopify store owner has ChatGPT rebuild store pages so they can drop a page builder app

After nearly 10 years on the PageFly page builder, a Shopify store owner is using ChatGPT's agent to rebuild all the store pages with code and templates, using credits already in their plan.

Spotted on @SuttonThings

Butter brand founder builds a monthly financials spreadsheet with Claude and sends themselves practice investor reports

The founder of a small butter brand had Claude help build an Excel workbook that tracks direct orders, expenses, inventory and revenue month to month, then grew it into their own system and started writing bi-monthly investor-style reports to themselves.

Spotted on @ruthdulac

B2B marketer puts their whole framework in a public NotebookLM notebook so prospects can ask it questions

Figuring nobody reads the PDFs they send, a B2B demand-gen marketer put everything they know about their sales and marketing method into a public NotebookLM notebook that prospects can question.

Spotted on @devthemarketer

Artist builds a Midjourney image archive to use as reference for their own paintings

A traditional artist fed their own work into Midjourney as image prompts for years, and now scrolls the archive for reference instead of weeks of thumbnail sketches.

Spotted on u/jadiana

Renter has ChatGPT review a landlord's deposit refund denial and gets the entire deposit back

A former renter had ChatGPT review their previous landlord's denial of a deposit refund; it said the denial didn't hold up and helped write a response, and the renter got the whole deposit back.

US$1000 security deposit returned · their claim

Spotted on @LynneGuire

Creator has Claude Code sort footage and upload their podcast to YouTube and RSS.com

A creator built a Claude Code pipeline that imports the SD card, sorts talking-head footage from B-roll, and after a manual color pass uploads and schedules the episode to YouTube and RSS.com.

Spotted on Scotty Luu

Designer swaps Adobe Dimension for Nano Banana to make client product mockups in minutes

A designer who used to spend a lot of time on product mockups, sometimes needing Adobe Dimension, now gives Nano Banana the product details, gets a mockup in minutes, adds their logo and sends it to the client.

Spotted on @burhan__rafiq

Food video maker has Canva AI combine four photos into one cover

A Canva subscriber who makes slideshow food videos used Canva's AI prompt box, referring to photos by page number, to build a combined cover in under a minute.

Spotted on u/RizDroid

Driver calls their ChatGPT dot hands-free and has it plan a week of allergy-safe meals and place the Walmart order

On a drive, a ChatGPT user called their dot, had it log into Walmart, build a week of meal prep from what it knew of their tastes, check each item against their food allergy, and check out after confirming the total.

Spotted on u/BraveBrush8890

Etsy digital product seller rewrites 120 listings with a Claude skill after an AI image disclosure change

When Etsy's terms started requiring a disclaimer on listings with AI-generated images, a seller with 120 digital product listings had Claude build a Notion task list of listings to fix, then made a skill that rewrites each one from its link.

Spotted on Simon (Time Rich by Design)

One-person band makes a full-length music video alone with Nano Banana Pro stills, Seedance 2.0 animation and LumaFusion

A one-person pop punk act with fully human-made music made the whole video for a new single by themselves, generating stills in Nano Banana Pro, animating them with Seedance 2.0 and editing in LumaFusion, over several weeks.

Spotted on @LFSuburbia

Portrait photographer reframes off-center shots with Photoshop Generative Expand

A portrait photographer culls with the model's view in mind, lets the model veto picks in a shared Google Drive folder, then uses Photoshop's Generative Expand and blank-prompt Generative Fill to recenter subjects and remove distractions.

Spotted on The Tabletop Studio

Spanish learner turns ChatGPT voice mode into a conversation partner that corrects each sentence, then keeps the chat going

A polyglot language creator pastes one setup prompt into ChatGPT, then talks in Spanish by voice: it corrects grammar and anything that sounds unnatural, gives the natural way to say it, and replies so the conversation continues.

Spotted on Hamid

Son rebuilds his mother's career-coaching site with Claude

A son moved his 70-year-old mother's resume and career-coaching business off an old WordPress site to a new site built with Claude, with Calendly bookings.

Revenue quadrupled in two months · their claim

Spotted on u/gosuruss

Team wellness ambassador uses Copilot to brainstorm a team name and write all the competition announcement posts

Put in charge of their team's entry in an org-wide wellness competition, an employee asked Copilot for team name options, the team picked 'From Excel to Excellent', and Copilot then drafted all the announcement posts.

Spotted on @Meedeey

Expat keeps speaking their native Afrikaans by chatting with Gemini Live on solo drives

Living abroad, where Afrikaans conversation partners and teachers are hard to find, a native speaker chats with Gemini Live in Afrikaans and asks for impromptu grammar lessons while driving alone.

Spotted on jeanbza

Restaurant owner loads the supplier order guide into ChatGPT and costs every menu item down to the ingredient

Aiming for a 10% profit increase, a restaurant owner loaded their order guide into ChatGPT, had it pull the menu from online, and costed every dish down to the ingredient, giving a view of food cost, yields, margins and where money was leaking.

Spotted on @resellerrowe

Podcast producer turns each episode into eight pieces of content with one saved Claude prompt

A freelance podcast producer feeds each episode transcript into one long saved Claude prompt that drafts show notes, a YouTube package, clip picks, an email, Instagram Stories, Pinterest pins, a carousel and a blog post. Then they check every quote against the transcript.

Spotted on Julia Thompson

Professional builds a button that launches a long Perplexity investor search

For frequent investor research at work, a Perplexity Pro user vibe-coded a button that starts a new search with a long, multi-question prompt.

Spotted on u/nothingeverhappen

Traveler uploads a 26-page policy to Gemini and overturns a twice-denied travel insurance claim

After a travel insurance claim for an airline change fee was denied, a traveler uploaded the full policy and all the letters to Gemini, which drafted an appeal and then a targeted reply to the second denial; the claim was fully approved.

Spotted on u/ObjectiveExpression3

ChatGPT user connects a separate Outlook inbox so they can say 'email me about this next Friday' and get a real reminder

A ChatGPT user connected a dedicated Outlook inbox and their personal Gmail, so they can casually ask ChatGPT to email them about something later and it queues a scheduled email with the context they wanted.

Spotted on u/myrandomtips

Writer has Claude write and schedule a week of social posts every Sunday

An author connected Claude to the SocialBu scheduler so one Sunday session writes and queues a week of posts for LinkedIn, X, Threads and Instagram.

Spotted on Amy Suto

Notion user gets value from Notion AI as search, not as a writer

A Notion user stopped asking Notion AI to write and started asking it questions about their own pages, which is when it became worth paying for.

Spotted on u/aiprotivity_

Consultant turns a store's shipping spreadsheet into chatbot FAQs with ChatGPT

Building a support agent for an ecommerce client, a consultant had ChatGPT turn a per-country shipping spreadsheet into question-and-answer pages the chatbot could learn from.

Spotted on Joren Wouters