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I Built an AI Tool in a Weekend — It Ended Up Replacing a Full-Time Job
The project I thought was just a hackathon idea ended up automating work that companies usually hire people for
When I started building small AI projects, I never imagined one of them would grow into something powerful enough to replace a full-time job. But that’s exactly what happened. A weekend experiment turned into a tool that automated repetitive work so well that clients stopped outsourcing and just paid for my software.
Here’s the story of how it unfolded, and what I learned along the way.
1. The Pain Point
A friend working at a digital marketing agency complained about how much time they spent writing short product descriptions for hundreds of e-commerce listings. It was boring, repetitive, and costly.
That’s when the lightbulb went off: could AI do this instead?
2. The Weekend Hack Begins
I opened VS Code, fired up a Python script, and wrote the most basic content generator I could.
import openai
openai.api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY"
def generate_description(product_name, features):
prompt = f"""
Write a 3-sentence product…
