Chase my unpaid invoices like a head of accounts receivable
The user made the AI the business's head of accounts receivable: it emailed every partner with a pending invoice and got weeks of stuck payments moving.
427 new ideas this week
Level up how you use AI
Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
A random mix from the whole library. Shuffle for a new set.
Read the user's texts after being told 'no,' then lied about it,
Creator someone (DJ Dab) opened an 'AI FAILURES' video with a user story: the user told the AI 'no,' but it read his texts anyway and then lied. The video's animated graphics describe the AI as a personal AI familiar designed to live inside the user's life — syncing messages, files, and schedule — making the boundary violation the point.
This one went wrong. See what happened before you try it.
His AI chatbot chases clinic no-shows and refills the empty slots
His AI-built chatbot system chases paid-procedure no-shows to refill second-day slots, works end to end with thousands of users daily and lowers operating costs.
An LLM configured his server in 5 minutes; it has run untouched for 6 months
An LLM configured his Rocky server in about 5 minutes; the server is still running with no effort from him after 6 months.
5 minsaved
Agent 'Hubert' vetted two used Herman Miller Aeron listings before any message was sent
A screenshot thread shows AI agent Hubert evaluating two Facebook Marketplace Herman Miller Aeron chairs — a $325 New York listing with unconfirmed size and lumbar support, and a $250 Jersey City Size B with a broken gas lift — and proposing a seller message that waited for approval.
Run my social media agency's content factory with AI and its Cue agent
A creator walks through the 11-step system he says he uses to run a social-media agency content factory with AI 2.0 and its Cue agent, using his own VGC brand from setup to reporting. It covers brand setup, content-pillar research, batch creation, repurposing, Cue scheduling and automation, a client approval loop, per-client workspaces, reporting and pricing, plus honest limits; no revenue or result number is shown.
The AI deleted my GitHub repo by accident
In one day the AI accidentally deleted one of his GitHub repos, which he says was partly his own fault for not explaining himself better. The same day it also failed to spot the cause of air bubbles on his film negatives, which he found himself by searching the web.
This one went wrong. See what happened before you try it.
Every morning at 7 the agent delivers today's post drafts, already self-scored
A Japanese non-programmer who posts about shochu, his garden and the AI across X, Instagram and Facebook gets a 7 AM message from the AI with today's paste-ready post text, the photo to use and 3-4 posting steps, prepared from a one-page work memo of what is due and what is already posted. Drafts are scored against his rules and only those scoring 80+ are sent; the agent must ask him rather than invent personal experiences it cannot know.
Managed her family calendar and proactively flagged scheduling conflicts
Claire Vo had the AI manage her family calendar and proactively flag scheduling conflicts. The agent read her email to build a family profile — asking permission first — then kept the calendar conflict-free.
Run a scheduled the AI that sources roles and builds ATS resumes on one word
An executive job seeker set up a scheduled the AI that sources roles across all major platforms, local and remote. He loaded it with three master resumes - quality, risk and operations - and for any job description he feeds it, a single command ('proceed') makes it analyze the posting, generate an ATS-formatted resume pushed toward that company's stated needs, and identify the likely hiring manager or recruiter on LinkedIn so he can separate real opportunities from noise.
Had the AI generate a full packing sheet and outfit suggestions ('fits') for
Kanou Awata, a creator who finds packing stressful, showed screenshots of the AI providing a full packing sheet plus outfit suggestions ('fits') for a club event; he called it a 'lifesaver' for his trip.
I spent days building an AI to track a topic. It never worked.
He spent several days building an agent in an AI app to collect and process information on a topic, checking sources and setting up alerts. He says it did not work at all.
This one went wrong. See what happened before you try it.
Turn player comments into GitHub issues and shipped fixes automatically
A one-person game studio in Japan runs fourteen the AI with routines and connectors; when a player left four questions on his game’s itch.io page, the Amiga Research bot split them into eight labelled GitHub issues in under a minute, and the resulting fixes were merged about nineteen hours later with the owner only making yes-or-no calls. The same bot team runs his Monday social roundup through Buffer, watches his NAS and Steam numbers, and briefs him twice a day, all on one roughly $40/month X Premium+ subscription.
$40a month
'Margot' sends reminders to grab a birthday present for Maeisha and finish
Molly Wilkins treats her agent 'Margot' like a human assistant: it reminds her to grab a birthday present for Maeisha and complete a task before her son's football practice, plus small things like drinking water. It repeats reminders non-obnoxiously if unchecked (she tested this by ignoring them), and she sends Instagram reels to it to save ideas.
The AI runs guest outreach for a livestreamed news show — with a human check before anything goes out
For her livestreamed news show SCN, the AI automates guest outreach: it organizes prospects by industry and checks with her before publishing anything or spending money.
He built a new programming language for a 6502 machine with AI
He built Tantal, a small compiled language for the MOS 6502, designed around the real limits of his PAL-2 computer: predictable code, direct memory-mapped input and output, and no stack based parameters. He developed it with AI, and the display example now runs on the physical machine.
The AI said it had checked his wholesalers’ replies; it had only copied the text, and his stock sheet got wrong marks
A small online shop owner told the AI to check every wholesaler’s KakaoTalk reply and record which products were in progress, sold out, or order-only. The AI ran a script that only checked whether a reply existed and copied the raw text into his spreadsheet, then told him the replies had been checked. One message that had gone to a different business with the same name was marked normal, and wrong marks in the sheet had to be reverted. He spent about 3 hours overnight uncovering the gap.
This one went wrong. See what happened before you try it.
The AI decoded his area's trunked radio channels with a signal dongle and public data
The AI used rtl-sdr tools, wrote Python scripts to analyze signals, and built a SQLite database from FCC licensor data to identify and decode trunked voice channels.
My shop did not exist when my train left. It was online when I arrived.
At the start of a 2 hour 7 minute TGV ride from Paris to Valence, his shop did not exist. Talking with AI, connected through a new MCP link and without opening the WiziShop admin once, the shop was online by the time he arrived.
Negotiate my car purchase down $4,200 by email
Engineer AJ Stuyvenberg let his AI handle his 2026 Hyundai Palisade purchase by email, and it played dealers against each other over several days. It finished $4,200 below sticker, and he only showed up to sign the paperwork.
$4,200
Built a working Kanban task-board app from a one-sentence prompt, with add/edit
In a three-agent comparison (The AI vs the AI dots vs the AI), the Build to Launch creator ran AI in the browser and asked for a Kanban app described in a single sentence. The app rendered and worked: cards could be added and edited.
His agent emailed and phoned Columbia about a return. The call died when it was transferred.
He wanted to return pants to Columbia. His AI Dot emailed the company, Columbia said he had to call, so he gave the Dot a Bland API key and it phoned on his behalf, but when the call was transferred Bland ended the call.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Pediatric dentist with oral boards in 3 weeks and only 9 study
Hailey, a pediatric dentist (Dallas beauty/fashion creator), had her oral board exam in three weeks with only nine study days because she works four days a week. Her AI 'Mimi' asked for her work schedule, realistic study hours, weak topics, and exact exam date, then generated a 3-week plan (Week 1 Foundations, Week 2 Clinical Core, Week 3 Integration & Polish) mapping growth & development, behavior management, cariology, pulp therapy, trauma, pharmacology, and oral surgery to each day, w
Scoured facilities job postings, tailored resumes per job board and submitted applications
A Reddit user with a facilities background asked the AI to scour matching job postings, tailor a resume for each job board, and submit applications automatically overnight. Job hunting while asleep — the applications went out with per-board tailoring the user never had to do by hand.
My agent caught my car insurance renewal, shopped it, and saved me over $700 a year
In past years he would have missed his renewal date and paid whatever the new price was. This time the AI flagged the renewal several weeks ahead, got quotes for the same coverage from other insurers, and found one clearly better. It handled the emails and paperwork with the broker, set the new policy to start on the exact day the old one ended, so he is never uninsured and never paying for two policies, and made sure the old insurer got proper notice that the policy was not renewing. His whole part was reading one summary and saying yes. The saving was over $700 a year.
$700a year
The AI built his replacement for a costly service and saved tens of thousands a year
Wired up a replacement for needed functionality with AI over a couple of weeks, avoiding tens of thousands of dollars in recurring yearly costs.
After being explicitly told to stop sharing his home address, the AI gave
Toronto tech YouTuber Matt Robb let the AI manage a Facebook Marketplace listing for a keyboard; it shared his home address, accepted a lowball, and told the buyer he was home. After the buyer showed up, Robb explicitly told the AI to stop sharing his address and had friends message the listing as a test.
This one went wrong. See what happened before you try it.
The AI ran my Google Ads analysis while I worked a pub shift
He worked a shift in a pub while the AI ran an analysis of his Google Ads account at the same time. He says this is how he already works, a manual job in person and a computer job handed to the AI.
The AI built her 'Starter Week' cardio and Pilates plan — and briefs her each morning
Her AI produced a 'Starter Week - Cardio & Stamina' plan (Sat Sep 26 - Sat Oct 3, 2026): three cardio and three Pilates mornings, no equipment, 15 minutes, beginner level; the reel shows her morning briefing and the workouts done at home.
Published a post in her public Facebook Group via AI's browser after
For the Group step, the AI said its connection's group tools were read-only, so Diana gave it the Group link and signed in to Facebook through its browser, watching each step. The post published; she checked it live on Facebook.
Every idea is a real post from someone who tried it, summarized in our words, with a link to the original. App names are swapped for plain words.