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Writing long-form articles, such as an 8,000-word piece

"I used it for writing all weekend and it is without a doubt my favorite new writing model. It beats Astra, which was my previous favorite. It definitely beats Claude. It has an incredibly good feel for structuring information and I used it all weekend to wr..."

Dan Shipper

Medical research and turning interview transcripts into newsletter posts

"I think really pleasantly surprised by how good Gemini 4 did at doing medical research, answering the questions that I had... for something like medical questions, I actually do want something that's super well researched. And that combined with its improve..."

Peter Yang

Running AI agents independently on local hardware for AI sovereignty

"OpenClaw is a vote on making agents that are independent. If you use OpenClaw with Neotron or Gemma, which is Google's open source product, you will be sovereign AI. In other words, the AI running on your Mac Studio with 256 gigs of RAM."

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Powers Jim, Brex's AI recruiting employee; also powers Pedro's personal 'autopilot' life management system that ingests Slack, email, and meeting notes

"This is Jim. Jim is our OpenClaw recruiter. It runs on effectively like a three-stage pipeline. We do use OpenClaw for this but the harness doesn't really matter as much as just the skills. I have this system that I call autopilot and basically what it does..."

Pedro Franceschi

Launching niche accounts to get organic views without needing followers

"I started a TikTok account called You're Somebody Now as the name of the handle, @yoursomebodynow. The first post I posted on that account with zero followers was a slight edit on the video that did well for me... That video with zero followers got 8.2 mill..."

GaryVee

Posting content and building audience; demonstrating that content finds its audience regardless of follower count

"I have 15 million followers on TikTok, right? My latest post on TikTok right there has 25,000 views, right? You see it? Now, I'm starting a new account where I'm just going around TikTok and I'm replying to people."

GaryVee

Online shopping for general goods with reliable delivery and returns

"My personal revealed preference is I would almost always want it from Amazon because I trust it's going to get there. I know where to go to look to see if it's on its way. I know where to go to process a return if I want to do that."

Ben Thompson

Brand awareness marketing and retail distribution channel for a beverage CPG brand

"We were 100% on Amazon from day one, which was a decision we made as a board to do that. And it was such a good decision, but you don't make a lot of money on Amazon as a beverage. We saw it as a great marketing tactic for awareness because it's in so many ..."

Allison Ellsworth

Screen recording herself building Zapier workflows while narrating her thought process, to capture authentic content to feed into AI for article drafting

"I recorded myself — like I did a screen record, like a Loom, if you guys use that tool — and I would build the automated workflow and I would narrate as I was building it."

Steph Spector

Having job candidates demonstrate their skills and work process instead of submitting résumés

"I like people to show me in Loom videos. I'm like, what's the point of an interview anymore? There's no point in submitting résumés. Instead, I like when they show me — show me what your calendar looks like, show me the list of people you reached out to, sh..."

Codie Sanchez

Getting started with AI personal assistants as a non-technical user

"Muse has been number one in the App Store for like the last couple of weeks. So, that one's pretty easy to get and you can just sign up for it. So, I would say probably Muse."

Kevin Rose

Emotional storytelling in animated shorts

"Wow. You know what? I think Muse created the most emotional video... I think Muse did the best job even though the graphics aren't as good as Opus as some of the other options. So, yeah, I think for emotional short, I'm actually going to have to give the aw..."

Peter Yang

Children's supervised screen time, homework rewards, educational coding projects

"My kids are too young to use social media. They're 10, eight, and six. But they each have an iPad. They have to earn their time."

Adam Mosseri

Primary computing device for everyday work

"I also have an iPad. Basically, I only use the Lenovo right now because we're on this Zoom, but otherwise I'm a no laptop guy. I'm an iPad, iPhone guy."

Ben Ling

Video conferencing for client review meetings conducted remotely

"Video conferencing, still Zoom — we use Zoom — but now have Microsoft Teams, which is very different for us."

Wendy Ciehanski

Always-on team coordination channel replacing traditional meetings and project management tools during a 10-week zero-to-one product build

"The only thing that we had was one permazoom. So we had a Zoom meeting that was going 24/7 — people just hop in and out — and Claude Code, lots of Claude Code tokens, and that was it."

Eddie Kim

Building niche gaming communities for casual players, particularly dads who want to connect with others

"I'm assuming you haven't heard of the Discord group called Dads of Marathon. There's 13,898 members. It's a Discord group of dads or basically casual gamers who don't have time to play video games, who don't have time to play competitive video games. This D..."

Jonathan Courtney

"We started this with Discord to be honest. Um, you know, we started a Discord community. Like we had the idea in November. We started a Discord, got it to like 10K people"

Albert Brotherton

Posting photo stories of day-to-day life with automotive theme to earn view-based revenue

"Snapchat is huge. Snapchat is amazing, dude. I love Snapchat. I post on Snapchat almost like an Instagram story — just take photos, add a caption, my day-to-day life, whatever I'm up to. You get paid based on views just like you would on anything. It takes ..."

TheStradman

"I do TikTok also. I'm on YouTube. I also do Snapchat."

Sophie Rain

Rendering video overlays, captions, and word-by-word highlight animations

"Transcribe it using Whisper, then use Remotion to create a UI that shows the transcript with each individual word being highlighted and different overlays. Goal: don't stop until the video is fully rendered."

Thariq Shihipar

Launch videos, B-roll, on-screen overlays for YouTube videos, creating video templates and animations

"I like the Remotion editor. It's been around for longer and it feels more professional, but hyperframes can do more advanced motion graphics."

Riley Brown

"I could go in there and say, 'Make me look like a bodybuilder.' And it did a good job and I looked great in the videos"

TBPN

"I've enjoyed making some videos in Sora. I've never enjoyed having to go to a separate app. I want all of that to live in one place."

TBPN

Programmatically creating video clips from long-form podcast videos, including adding captions and generating vertical versions

"It's going to go off and use FFmpeg, which is an open-source library, to basically make the actual video."

Peter Yang

"FFmpeg is a CLI that you can use to edit videos. And I use this all the time. I use it to strip audio off of videos."

Marco Casalaina

Generating AI avatar UGC-style video ads that talk about customer pain points and outcomes

"On the video side, what we're still using and still seeing great results with, which is crazy to me because it's not even the best, is HeyGen."

Cody Schneider

"This stuff, this is all HeyGen and so if you want good photos and videos of people holding the product, I generally do it through HeyGen. The voice cloning feature is like really good."

Samuel Thompson

Product launch videos with brand style matching — customizing fonts, colors, and logos; showing keyframes for feedback before final render; syncing animations to music

"For product launch videos or videos that you want to match your brand style and guidelines, I recommend installing Hyperframes. Again, it's free, and give it your logos, colors, and fonts. The more information you give it, the more likely it is to match the..."

Peter Yang

Video editing — adding overlays, animations, and effects to video intros via Claude

"One suggestion I do have is to install this HyperFrames open-source repo for all kinds of video editing needs. It uses HTML to add the overlays and other things that you saw in my Muse video. Personally I'm still using HyperFrames right now and it's free an..."

Peter Yang

Assembling AI-generated video clips with voiceover and background music

"You can use something like Cap Cut, which is a very user-friendly video editor, both for desktop and for iPhone or Android. And you can add in background music and stuff like that. It's free."

Chris Koerner

Filming YouTube travel/documentary content as a solo creator

"It's me and a GoPro. I figure out the story, she edits."

Peter Santenello

Running multiple AI video generation models (Kling, Sora, Veo) side by side for comparison

"Higgsfield, where Harry and I are both investors. I was one of the first 10 users or customers. Higgsfield just announced they're at 500 million in revenue, actually doing 2 million a day now just in credit card billings outside of the enterprise. You can r..."

Jason Lemkin

Creating viral ultra running content

"When reels and TikTok came out, it allowed me to edit videos on my phone like with, you know, no barrier to entry. So, I just started making videos and the first reel I ever made got 70,000 views and I was like, what is going on?"

Andy Glaze

Motion control for creating anthropomorphic animal exercise videos

"I found that Cling is the model that works best for these videos. Fun fact, Higgsfield was down a couple weekends ago and I was fiending for more video creation. So I went and downloaded Cling separately and it didn't make videos that were as good as Cling ..."

Bryce Rattner Keithley