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Creating 'impossible documentaries' of Star Wars planets — generating scripts, directing video generation, and orchestrating audio

"In the last few weeks, I've been obsessed with Qwen 3 8B. It's very good at long horizon tasks, and it's actually really creative. It's a great storyteller. So, I've been using it to create these impossible documentaries, mostly of planets in the Star Wars ..."

Anish Acharya

Reading Twitter and Reddit 24/7 to look for market signals and customer pain points

"You can run mid-size good models like Qwen 36 pretty quickly on the DGX Spark, which is nice. Quinn 36, which is not quite as smart as GLM, I can have that reading Twitter and Reddit all day just looking for signal. That's a very simple thing to find."

Alex Finn

Hosting needs within an AI operating system

"He's got Railway for all of his hosting needs."

Liam Ottley

Hosting and deploying applications

"I'm more of a Railway guy these days, guys. Railway is my go-to hosting platform."

Liam Ottley

Tracking employee spending by department, issuing virtual cards with pre-approved limits

"If you own a business and need a way to track spending and waste, I would really look at this one company called Ramp. We're not sponsored by them, although I'd be open to it, because they actually create virtual cards for all the team members and have pre-..."

Codie Sanchez

Querying spend data via natural language in the app

"I love the fact that you can open up the Ramp app and just ask a model like, 'How much did we spend on camera equipment last month?' and it'll just tell me. And that's amazing."

John Coogan

Transactional email sending for the OnlyWaivers contact form and app

"Another thing I did over the last few days — I switched the email sending service from SendGrid to Resend. I got them confused. I always use Resend. I already had Resend connected to my Replit account, so I just used that again."

Chris Koerner

Sending transactional emails from his Replit-hosted web app

"I switched the email sending service from SendGrid to Resend. I got them confused. I always use Resend. I already had Resend connected to my Replit account, so I just used that again. Yes, Resend is awesome."

Chris Koerner

Researching what apps are charting and being downloaded to find opportunities to build AI-native versions

"Just go look at sensortower.com — not affiliated — but you can just see what's charting and what people are downloading. And it's like, okay, in a world where super intelligence is now on tap, how can I make an AI-native version of this?"

Greg Isenberg

Researching profitable app ideas for development inspiration

"You can go on Sensor Tower to search for ideas that are making a lot of money and you can literally copy the same app but make it 10% better."

Benjamin Chen

"Remember when you used to design WordPress websites back in the day, like when people actually paid for that service? I used the blog as like a calling card or a digital business card for designing websites for local businesses."

Vin

"I built this in WordPress and it still has Lorem Ipsum on the front page."

Frey

Personal and business password management

"1Password for password manager. On a personal note, absolute life changer. Could not recommend any more to set up 1Password."

Jake Glacer

"So I use one password which is a password and secret sharing kind of app. I made a vault that's called Claude. Claude only has access. Claudebot only has access to that vault."

Claire Vo

Booking unique, intentional travel accommodations — a palazzo near the river in Rome with space for family and writing

"This palazzo, which we booked on Airbnb in Rome, certainly the first place I've ever worked on a book — it was adorned with a 15th century fresco on the ceiling. I mean, it's like being in a museum. I'm thankful for the hosts who listed it so I could experi..."

Ryan Holiday

Booking accommodation in Rome for the run, and previously hosting his own home to generate income that funded his writing career transition

"I actually started my writing career — first house my wife and I bought, we would host it on Airbnb when we would travel. And it kind of is what helped me transition from being a corporate person to a writer. We bought this house and then listed it while we..."

Ryan Holiday

B2B content distribution and newsletter publishing

"There's Beehiiv for B2B — it's become the platform I'm obsessed with."

GaryVee

"I host it on Beehive. I love Beehive. I talk about them a lot."

Chris Koerner

Website setup and domain configuration

"I set up a new website for in fact this organizational singularity and I went on Cloudflare and the AI told me exactly how to run the exception rules and for domain forwarding."

Salim Ismail

"What's been really great for me is Cloudflare. They do all of my site hosting. I have all of my domains on Cloudflare and I also have a database where I can store static data."

Maddox Schmidtoffer

Database management via ChatGPT Work plugin

"I use Convex for anything that involves a database."

Riley Brown

Adding authentication and database storage to iOS and web apps built in Cursor, syncing databases across platforms

"Convex is a database provider that I believe is the best with Cursor — it's just really good at controlling Convex and creating a database for an application. You can do this for a web app or an iOS app, any type of app, a desktop app — anywhere you want a ..."

Riley Brown

Building and hosting the facilitator.com website

"Our website is currently built on Framer. One of our facilitator.com website is built on Framer. I still pay an external agency when I want to do something there."

Jonathan Courtney

"framer is 30 bucks per month for the marketing website."

Jonathan Fishner

"Like Glean and Slackbot and different um we're testing three of them or so right now."

Brian Armstrong

"Glean. Like now I've given it an action as well to search like our internal Glean tool which is awesome because then I could see like oh well we talked about this customer in Slack."

Reed Robinson

Personal use tool he creates tutorial content around; also promoting via Facebook ads with affiliate link on a 30-day free trial offer

"I use GoHighLevel a lot and I have an affiliate link for that. I've been posting my affiliate link to Facebook ads behind 34-minute GoHighLevel tutorial videos. I have a whole playlist of how to make money with GoHighLevel. I'll link to that here."

Chris Koerner

Running prospecting reports to identify gaps in local business clients' online presence, assessing conversion likelihood, and using snapshots to onboard new reputation management customers in ~10 minutes.

"We run a report in GHL, that prospecting report. It shows like where the gaps are, their citations, if they're responding to reviews. It gives them like a percentage rating on all of the different categories and an overall rating. And then it will even tell..."

Rachel Smith

Writing plans and tracking data in Google Docs and Sheets, connected to Claude so it can read and update documents

"It's connected to Google Workspace because I like to write plans and stuff that I actually want to read in Google Docs and Google Sheets. And I want to make sure that Fable can also read this and update the plan as needed."

Peter Yang

Allowing Hermes to draft emails, schedule meetings, edit Google Docs and Sheets, read Gmail inbox

"Google Workspace is the holy grail. If you're like me, you probably run your life using Google Docs, Sheets, Drive, Gmail, and Google Calendar. Letting Hermes draft emails, schedule meetings, and edit your Docs and Sheets just makes it way more useful. This..."

Peter Yang

"We use Holistiplan for tax projections. We are very happy to embrace the tools available out in the marketplace and are constantly evaluating new tools to figure out how we can do what we do better."

Adam Dell

"the other two advisers use Holista Plan because they don't do taxes and it's too big of a learning curve to use tax prep software just to do projections."

Andy Panko

Built a personal CRM to track 150 sponsors daily in real time; general consumer AI queries

"It's the first real ChatGPT competitor. It's one of the best pieces of software I've ever used. But it's also a Trojan horse to fight ChatGPT because the LLM's pretty good. It built me an entire CRM for every SaaS sponsor — it tracks every email about them,..."

Jason Lemkin

Building video games through vibe coding prompts

"And when I demoed Meta AI, the latest launch, one of the suggested prompts is like vibe code a video game, and it actually does a really really great job building a little miniature video game."

TBPN

Comprehensive financial planning for both retirees and accumulators; building plans alongside Holistiplan for tax planning; used in tandem with MoneyGuide for nuclear-engineer-style redundancy

"We're making the migration over to Right Capital. They're always adapting, adding more features, keeping up with the times. It's evolved beyond where MoneyGuide was able to take us. It's also a little bit better for accumulators, and we are starting to see ..."

Ryan Townsley

Creating financial plans and scenarios for G2 clients

"We use RightCapital. We're very pleased with it. Years ago we used eMoney. We were happy with the move to RightCapital."

Liz Miller

Data warehousing for analytics platform

"So like our early day bills on AWS and like the first time we set up Snowflake were like crazy high."

Zach Cherin

"then we have MCPs into all of the tools that we use. So into into Snowflake, into um into Tableau"

Owen Jennings

"And we rendered the entire scene in Unreal Engine 5 and then did set dressing. So we had live elements, dirt on the floor and cactuses"

Chris Williamson

"I chose one of the more difficult tasks to take on in my opinion when it comes to game development by going both, you know, 3D and also VR and then doing Unreal Engine with VR, which there just isn't a ton of support."

Chris Hawkes