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67 real examples so far, from gamer making their first game, about their own dog, creates all 25 soundtrack tracks with suno to songwriter uploads rough acoustic and vocal demos to suno and shares the style prompt that gets an 80s synth sound. Each one shows the tool, what happened and a prompt to try.
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Suno
Gamer making their first game, about their own dog, creates all 25 soundtrack tracks with Suno
A gamer who decided to make a game about their real dog made the whole soundtrack in Suno, from menu themes to battle loops, boss music and a Balkan folk trailer theme.
Spotted on u/Cookiesaner
ChatGPT + 1
Video creator directs a ChatGPT dot in plain English to rebuild a famous film sequence as editable 3D previs in Blender
A creator used a ChatGPT dot working in Blender on its cloud computer to reverse-engineer the camera work, blocking and timing of a movie scene into a simple 3D previs, refining it over about 11 rounds of small changes.
Spotted on u/Objective-Rip-7268
Suno
Songwriter uploads rough acoustic and vocal demos to Suno and shares the style prompt that gets an 80s synth sound
A songwriter who writes the lyrics and arrangement first uploads rough acoustic and vocal recordings to Suno, and shared the short style prompt that gave them an 80s Yamaha synth sound they were happy with.
Spotted on u/adinwalls
ChatGPT + 1
Parent runs a kids' science podcast where ChatGPT writes each script and NotebookLM turns it into a two-host audio episode
A serial entrepreneur built a simple pipeline for a podcast aimed at kids ages 5 to 10: he picks a child's question, ChatGPT writes the script from his prompts, NotebookLM turns it into audio with two AI hosts, and he checks it before publishing.
Spotted on Roey Granot (@RoeyGranot)
Gemini + 1
Viewer of a lot of how-to videos asks Gemini inside YouTube for a summary, then copies it into notes for later
A person who watches many instructional YouTube videos uses the Gemini feature built into YouTube to get a summary of a video, then copies and pastes it to keep for later review.
Spotted on Mike Miller (@mj196410)
Suno
Musician trains a Suno v6 custom model on their 30 best tracks to get closer to their own sound
A musician who releases songs as QUELL trained a Suno v6 custom model on 30 of their best, stylistically consistent tracks and says it sounds much closer to their own music than the stock models.
Spotted on u/QuellMusik
Suno + 1
Churchgoer expands an old church chorus with new lines of praise and has Suno add vocals and a full arrangement
A user took an old chorus they remembered from church, used Grok to help with some of the writing, added new lines of their own, and had Suno generate the vocals and musical arrangement for a song they shared as a video.
Spotted on Joe Rindal (@JoeRindal29094)
Suno + 1
Producer auto-quantizes Suno tracks on the way into Ableton
A lifelong musician and producer noticed tempo drift in Suno tracks and built automations that snap them to the grid when importing to Ableton.
Spotted on jrickert
Suno + 1
Singer builds a Suno voice from a clean stem of their own singing
A Suno user records their voice, has Suno generate songs from it, splits out the best vocal stem, and turns that clean take into a reusable Suno voice.
Spotted on u/bonerfleximus
Suno + 1
Songwriter mixes Suno tracks in a DAW and checks them on every speaker
A Suno user downloads the WAV once a song is locked, fixes the levels in a DAW, and checks the mix on headphones, a phone, a car and a stereo.
Spotted on u/Toxikfoxx
Suno
Rock and metal creator writes Suno v6 prompts that give every instrument a job
A Suno user who makes rock and metal songs shares a fixed order for v6 style prompts, plain lyric section tags, and a problem-and-fix table for muddy mixes, distant vocals, vanishing guitars and cut-off endings.
Spotted on u/SevenSky_Tech1
Claude + 2
Builder has AI agents report their work as short podcast episodes
A developer running a team of Claude agents has each one turn its chat history into a podcast script, voiced with ElevenLabs, to keep up with progress.
Spotted on jbdamask
ChatGPT + 1
Songmaker cleans radio-like static out of Suno tracks by sending the WAV to ChatGPT with a denoise prompt
A Suno user shared a long prompt that has ChatGPT run spectral noise reduction on an uploaded WAV file and return a cleaned track plus a file of what was removed, aimed at the grainy static some Suno songs have.
Spotted on u/Cookienomster45
ElevenLabs + 1
Author narrates their own audiobooks with ElevenLabs
An author used ElevenLabs' v4 voices to narrate one finished audiobook and was partway through a second when the voice quality changed.
Spotted on u/DarranSmith_author
CapCut Video Studio + 1
Daily CapCut Video Studio user shares what stopped the wasted credits
After a month of daily use, a CapCut Video Studio user found that lighting words, short prompts and keeping 'mostly good' clips got better AI video with fewer credits.
Spotted on u/Ancient_Fun5105
Claude Desktop + 2
Real estate title rep has a Claude skill cut hour-long classes into 26 short clips
A title company rep who teaches AI classes to real estate agents gave Claude Desktop folder access and a long-video-to-short-clips skill, and it found and edited 26 clips with hooks and B-roll from two recorded classes.
Spotted on Jerad Larkin
Suno
Video producer swaps stock music libraries for custom Suno tracks after false YouTube copyright claims
A media professional of two decades kept getting false copyright claims on YouTube for stock music they had licensed, sometimes on client videos. They now make background tracks in Suno, tailored to each project's style and lyrics.
Spotted on u/condra
ElevenLabs
Course creator uses an ElevenLabs clone of their own voice to fix and redo tutorial voiceovers
A creator who makes software tutorials for courses and YouTube uses a professional voice clone in ElevenLabs so script changes can be typed and regenerated instead of re-recorded.
Spotted on Bryan Guerra
Suno + 1
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
Google Flow + 2
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
ElevenLabs
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)
ElevenLabs + 4
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
ElevenLabs
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
Claude Code + 2
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
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