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Can you do this job yourself?

An honest answer for every job: you can do it yourself, you'll find it hard, or it's an expert job. Which tool, how many steps, how long it takes, and if it needs an expert, why.

You'll find it hardA few days (including the domain and legal texts)

Building a simple business website

Make a one-page business website with tools that build sites through chat. Getting started is easy; the domain, forms, legal texts and maintenance are the hard part.

Gemini CLI, Lovable
Steps and tools
You'll find it hardAbout half a day (for 100 products, including checks)

Writing e-commerce product descriptions in bulk

Generate many product description drafts from a product spec sheet, check them and upload them to your store.

Make, ChatGPT, Claude
Steps and tools
You'll find it hardAbout half a day

Setting up a form → spreadsheet → email automation

Automatically write website form submissions to a spreadsheet and email the right person. The most common first automation.

n8n, Make, Activepieces
Steps and tools
You can do it yourselfAbout 5 minutes per review

Drafting replies to Google reviews

Have polite, short reply drafts prepared for incoming reviews and publish them after approving them yourself.

ChatGPT, Gemini
Steps and tools
You can do it yourselfAbout 15 minutes per post

Writing an Instagram post caption

Draft the caption, hashtag suggestions and call to action with a chat assistant, then edit it into your own voice.

ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude
Steps and tools
Expert job1–2 weeks (document preparation and testing)

Building a site assistant that answers from your own documents

An assistant on your site that answers using your service list, prices and FAQs. Uploading documents is easy; preventing wrong answers is hard.

Botpress, Dify, Typebot
Steps and tools
You'll find it hardAbout 1–2 hours to set up

Summarizing customer data without sending it to the cloud

Summarize quotes, complaints or form entries with a model running on your own computer; the data never leaves it.

LM Studio, Ollama
Steps and tools
You can do it yourselfAbout 1 hour

Researching competitors and the market

Gather competitors' prices, services and customer reviews with search tools that cite sources.

Perplexity, GPT Researcher, Gemini
Steps and tools
Expert jobAbout 1 week (including the booking system connection)

Automating appointment reminder messages

Send automatic reminders a day and a few hours before an appointment; it can help reduce no-shows.

n8n, Make
Steps and tools
You can do it yourselfAbout 20 minutes per video

Adding automatic captions to a Reels video

Generate and correct automatic captions for a short talking video. It makes the video understandable for people watching with the sound off.

CapCut, Whisper
Steps and tools
You can do it yourselfAbout 30 minutes per script

Creating a voiceover for an ad or video

Voice your script with an AI voice. Many tools support Turkish voiceovers.

Chatterbox, ElevenLabs
Steps and tools
You can do it yourselfAbout 2 hours

Designing a restaurant or café menu

Make a printed or digital menu from a template and edit your food photos.

Picsart, Canva
Steps and tools
You'll find it hardAbout 1 hour

Building a monthly report from sales data

Upload spreadsheet sales data to an assistant and get a summary, charts and commentary.

ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude
Steps and tools
You can do it yourselfAbout 45 minutes the first time

Making a proposal or pitch presentation

Generate a slide draft from a text or your notes, then correct it with your own data.

Microsoft Copilot, Gamma, Canva
Steps and tools
You can do it yourselfAbout 30 minutes per meeting

Transcribing and summarizing a meeting

Turn a meeting recording into a transcript and summary, and list the decisions and tasks.

Notion, WhisperX, Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM)
Steps and tools
You can do it yourselfAbout 30 minutes the first time

Changing the background of a product photo

Remove the background from a product photo taken with your phone and replace it with a clean backdrop or a scene. The most common task for marketplace and social media images.

Photoroom, Picsart, Canva
Steps and tools
You can do it yourselfAbout 30 minutes

Creating original background music for a video

Generate original, royalty-free music by describing it, or pick ready-made music in your editor.

CapCut, Suno
Steps and tools
You can do it yourselfAbout 1 hour per page (including review)

Translating website copy into another language

Move marketing and product copy into a language such as English with machine translation, then review it.

LibreTranslate, DeepL
Steps and tools
You'll find it hardAbout 1 hour to install, a few days to settle the routine

Adding a live chat box to a website

Set up a chat box visitors can use to message you from your site. Installation is one line of code; the real work is deciding who replies, and when.

tawk.to, Chatwoot, Crisp
Steps and tools
Expert job1–2 weeks (setup, answer library and testing)

Auto-replying to WhatsApp messages with AI

Set up an assistant that sends a first automatic reply to customer questions about prices, location and appointments, and hands over to a person when needed.

Chatwoot, Dify, Typebot
Steps and tools
You'll find it hardAbout 1–2 hours (with retries)

Making a short product promo video with AI

Generate a few seconds of video from a product image or text. The result you want rarely comes on the first try; it takes credits and several attempts.

Wan 2.2, Kling AI, PixVerse
Steps and tools