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3 Cursor Scripts That Save Me 2 Hours a Week — No Coding Background Needed
A non-developer freelancer shares three specific Cursor automations with exact prompts, time savings, and the mistakes that wasted first attempts.
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I Keep a Perplexity Space for Every Client. It Beats Bookmarks by a Mile.
How Perplexity Spaces turned scattered client research into a persistent knowledge base and cut proposal prep time from 90 minutes…
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My $102/Month AI Stack: 4 Subscriptions That Pay for Themselves, 1 That Doesn’t
A freelance consultant runs a cold ROI audit on five AI subscriptions totaling $102/month. Four pass clearly. One is on…
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Canva AI Saved Me from Hiring a Designer — But Only for 3 Things
A non-designer freelancer breaks down which Canva AI features hold up in client pitch decks and which ones waste more…
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I Built 4 Claude Projects for Repeat Client Work. Only 2 Survived.
A freelance consultant audits four Claude Projects after two months of daily use. Which setups became habits and which ones…
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DeepSeek V4 at $0.14 per Million Tokens. I’m Watching, Not Switching.
DeepSeek V4 ships near-frontier performance at 1/6th the cost of Claude Opus. A freelancer’s Field Report on pricing, benchmarks, and…