Social Media AI hacks

Trading card game creator has ChatGPT research news every Sunday, draft short magazine articles and plan posts in Google Sheets

A hobby creator running Instagram and TikTok accounts about Magic: The Gathering and other card games has ChatGPT search for news every Sunday, check sources and prepare short articles for a monthly digital magazine, with content planned weeks ahead in Google Sheets.

Spotted on u/_necrobite_

Owner writes one core note per post and gives AI a rules sheet for each platform

A small business owner cut social posting time by writing one bullet-point core note and pasting short per-platform rules into an AI tool to draft each version.

Spotted on u/shannonpieter

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

Family helper uploads a small business's social videos to ChatGPT for tips on making them better

Someone who makes social media videos for their mom's small business uploads each one to ChatGPT and asks how to improve it, and says it has made a world of difference.

Spotted on u/rebeccasaidit

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

Podcast cohosts have Claude Code cut each episode, then share one editing setup on a server

Two burned-out podcast cohosts who release video and audio had Claude Code cut their episodes with ffmpeg in the style of past episodes, then moved the setup to a server so both of them can give notes and run the same editor.

Spotted on u/canuck_amok

Social media manager posts for clients twice a day and lets their deletions teach Claude

A social media manager uses Claude with Blotato to post for clients twice a day, lets each client delete what they don't like from their profiles, and has Claude learn their preferences from what stays up and what gets liked.

Spotted on u/DrEvaWolf

Social media manager wires Claude to Buffer, then goes back to using it for drafts only

A social media manager connected Claude to Buffer for a couple of weeks to batch a week of posts in one sitting, found the copy fine but the images unreliable, and now uses Claude only for rough drafts.

Spotted on u/NicelyNervous

Blogger batch-creates a month of Pinterest pins with Claude and schedules them all in Buffer

A writer gave Claude their brand rules, built a pin design system with it, generated a month of Pinterest pins for their writing blog in one session, and scheduled the whole batch through Buffer without a designer.

Spotted on @bryancollins (Bryan Collins)

Podcaster transcribes episodes and makes captions for free with Whisper

A podcaster runs Whisper on their own computer to turn episodes into timestamped transcripts and caption files in one pass.

Spotted on u/Suitable-Ad-4299

Newsletter writer sends each new post to Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest with Make

A Substack writer built three Make.com scenarios in one afternoon that turn each new post into Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest posts with AI images and captions.

Spotted on Claudia Faith

Creator lets CapCut's auto captions write the subtitles, then adjusts timing, fonts and style

A creator who edits on a phone uses CapCut's auto captions to generate subtitles, then goes through them to fix the timing and match fonts and style to the video.

Spotted on @kiyosetcode

Turn 50 customer reviews into 14 ad angles with Claude

A marketer had Claude sort 50 four- and five-star reviews into themes and ad hooks in customers' own words, ready to reuse as social posts.

Took about 25 minutes · their account

Spotted on @Mo_ali

Store gets a ready-made Instagram story graphic every time it restocks

A two-person Shopify store had Claude build a Telegram bot that sends a branded Instagram story graphic and product link whenever stock goes up.

Spotted on u/John___Matrix

Solo consultant runs client work on ChatGPT and Claude

A HighLevel agency consultant uses ChatGPT to review contracts and merge client CSVs, and had Claude build a one-click social post maker.

Thousands of hours of research · their claim

Spotted on Life After Iron

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

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

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

Writer for small businesses turns one recorded client interview into a blog post, newsletter and more with ChatGPT

A writer who makes content for small business clients records a 30-minute call, gets a transcript, and runs five prompts in ChatGPT to draft a blog post, a LinkedIn post, a newsletter, FAQ entries and captions in the client's voice.

3+ hours per project · their claim

Spotted on u/Street-Gate7322

Creator makes sponsored reels with a HeyGen avatar of themselves

A creator cloned themselves in HeyGen Avatar V, pasted in scripts and restyled outfits by chat, and says one avatar video drew 160,000 Instagram views for a paying sponsor.

Spotted on Simply Digital

Founder turns a one-hour recorded interview into a captioned social clip with Descript

Interview footage usually sat unused on a founder's laptop, so they put a one-hour recording into Descript, which transcribed it, picked out clips and handled the edits; the first clip took under 20 minutes.

Spotted on @ryanbozarth

Startup investor posts twice every weekday using Perplexity for ideas and data and Buffer to schedule

To post 10 times a week on LinkedIn and X, an investor blocks 90 minutes each morning, uses Perplexity to find ideas and add data to posts, parks random ideas in Buffer and schedules everything there, even before vacations.

Spotted on @mikewchan