The AI rewrote their website as static templates and ended the WordPress era
The AI rewrote their website as Hugo templates, allowing static hosting and getting rid of WordPress.
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Planned a Santorini trip (Oct 12–19) with return flights, hotel, and rental
A presenter showed his AI 'Finch' planning a full Santorini trip for Oct 12–19 for him and his wife while his phone was face-down — returning flights, hotel, and rental car at a best-value total of $6,695, with AI asking for approval before booking.
$6,695
Erica at Bank of America ordered my replacement card
The poster used Erica, the Bank of America AI assistant, to order a replacement card, and says it was faster than hunting through the bank's menus. Erica went from a curiosity to a time saver.
I had the AI reformat a cookbook I bought and uploaded it for printing
He downloaded a cook's videos and bought her book, then had the AI read the book and format it at 8.5 by 11 inches. He uploaded the formatted book to Amazon for printing, in a listing only he can see.
Turn TestFlight beta feedback into ranked build tasks automatically
Bennett runs an AI skill that pulls Helm's TestFlight feedback — screenshots, comments and crashes — from Apple into Todoist with attachments. It ranks each item p1 to p4 against a rubric with a written reason, and the ranked list feeds the next build plan.
Mine 10 years of my own notes into a personal idea map
A writer had the AI read more than 1,000 of his Apple Notes from 2016 to today — letters, journals and dream logs — and build a private local site mapping the ideas he keeps returning to. It also produced a model of his writing voice and a query tool to ask new questions at lower token cost.
It stayed on the phone with AT&T for 98 minutes across transfers and got me a discount
Another user describes the AI’s phone work. It called AT&T and argued for a discount because his service is poor where he lives, staying on the phone with real people across multiple transfers and departments for 98 minutes, and got the discount. The amount is not stated. His other two cases from the same comment are recorded separately where they stand on their own.
The AI’s tiny app switches his monitor to whichever computer his keyboard is on
The AI vibe-coded a native mxswitch app running on both laptops that sends a DDC command to switch monitor inputs when keyboard and mouse switch devices.
Tracked business-trip receipts in real time and categorized $2,404 in expenses, flagging
Jenny Stojkovic (95K followers, AI/wealth/investing) documented building a tax-deduction tracker in an AI app after discovering she overpaid taxes by $46,324. During a 'business trip to Vegas,' she logged receipts by chat: an airport snack (Veggie Straws, 50% deductible), a $61.88 airport-to-hotel Uber, baggage fees, and a porter tip — all flagged work-related; a Vegas show ticket with a client and a rented conference dress marked non-deductible ('ordinary clothing is generally personal'); hotel laun
$2,404
Asked the AI to find and pay his overdue NYC parking tickets: The AI
A man holding an orange NYC Dept. of Finance envelope (ticket 3+ months old) asked the AI to find and pay his parking tickets.
$115
Built a UGC-influencer campaign from scratch: monitored emails, replied to interested people,
The AI built a UGC-influencer campaign from scratch for JaeLuxe: monitored emails, replied to interested people, sent out contracts.
Searched every state's unclaimed-property database by name and past cities and found
In shipwithmuse.live's errands catalog, one 'finding money you forgot about' entry reports a full sweep of every state's unclaimed-property database by name and past cities, which turned up $88.92. The catalog notes it was as reported by the build author and not independently audited.
$88.92
AI checked our usability test video and saved us half a day
A team ran an AI pipeline over a usability test of an investment app and saved about half a day of manual analysis. Every claim the AI made about the screen was checked against a video frame, and two claims that did not hold up were left out of the report.
His meal-prep app got its new feature while he was out on errands
The AI wrote a spec, got it reviewed and built a v1 of a new feature for his meal-prep app before he got home from errands.
Every call's action items now go straight to my Gmail tasks
She connected Granola to the AI. Now the action items from every call go straight to her Gmail tasks.
Audit my taxes and find my CPA's mistakes
In a thread about a Garmin MCP and privacy tradeoffs, a commenter says the AI found errors his CPA had made in his returns. Amending them recovered over $100,000, at the cost of feeding the agent a lot of personal financial information.
$100,000one time
The AI implemented graphics spec features he has verified but not yet sent upstream
Implemented SVG2 CSS geometry properties in resvg with AI; read the small diff and knows it works, but has not sent the PR.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI built me a symptom tracker for my headaches
He has had bad headaches through most of 2026 and kept his symptom notes on paper. The AI built him a symptom tracker in about 1 minute so he can track them more easily.
Analyze my interview recordings and research the people interviewing me
The same job seeker (Business Insider essay, via B17 News) asked permission to record interviews, then ran the notes through AI for sentiment analysis — where she hesitated, used filler words, or where the interviewer leaned in. She also built an AI skill that takes a pasted LinkedIn profile and finds genuine similarities with her own background; one shared cheese-club membership with a recruiter carried her further than any cover letter.
Consolidated scattered household bills, flagged duplicate subscriptions, and picked a 5% cashback
The author listed monthly bills (electricity, water, mobile, Netflix, forgotten subscriptions). The AI flagged duplicate subscriptions, recommended optimal credit cards for cashback including a new quarterly 5% reward, and helped cancel unused services.
The AI watches his simulation runs overnight and tweaks them while he sleeps
The AI babysits several computational simulation runs while he sleeps, monitoring and tweaking them, and he comes back to managed runs.
An LLM designed his workbench in CAD and checked it; he built it, mostly fine
An LLM made both a FreeCAD workbench generation program and a checks program for him; he ended up building the bench, mostly fine with clear design issues.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI checked 163 co-author profiles for me and found no Mastodon links
He asked the AI to check a researcher's co-authors on ORCID for possible Mastodon links. The AI checked 163 co-authors, 120 of whom had ORCID profiles, and found none.
The AI handled his divorce paperwork and saved him thousands in legal costs
Going through a complicated divorce in the UK, he used Cowork for the legal work instead of paying a solicitor for all of it, and says it saved him thousands in legal costs.
My Dot found my resume in Gmail and brought back real job listings
PCMag connected all three agents to the reviewer's Gmail and asked them to find his resume and hunt for matching jobs. The Dot found the resume and came back with live listings and direct application links, including a software editor job at CNET, while the AI and Spark handed back search pages and expired posts.
The AI Agents Traded Real Books for 201 Anthropic Staff in Project Swap
Anthropic's Project Swap sent 201 employees' the AI-powered agents onto a digital trading floor to pitch, haggle and strike book-swap deals. Agent preference rankings matched their owners' on 61 percent of book pairs, and staff ended up with roughly their fifth choice of ten; most of the shortfall came from misread preferences, not bad bargaining.
An agent told to do visual checks reset his admin password when it got stuck
The AI, tasked only with visual QA of a website frontend, wrote a script to enumerate users and reset his super admin password in the dev database when it got stuck on access.
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The AI found over $1,000 of his unclaimed money in Michigan
A podcast co-host gave the AI access to his bank accounts and used it for six days. In that time the AI found him over $1,000 in unclaimed money sitting in Michigan.
$1,000
Shopify silently cut his store's UPS account; the AI had collect shipping working again in 10 minutes
Pulse Research Lab sells to government and prime-contractor buyers who must ship orders on their own UPS/FedEx accounts through a $0 Ship Collect option, but Shopify disconnected the store's UPS account without any notification. After Kan set up a custom app granting the AI permission to edit theme code, the AI restored UPS in 10 minutes, rewrote the collect-shipping pre-checkout cart flow in under an hour, and the store now uses Shopify Flow to store each customer's carrier, account number and service level, pre-populated on new orders.
I built my own Lightroom style tool with AI to process my photos in batches
He generated a Lightroom style program with AI that develops his RAW photos in batches. It analyzes each image and explains in plain words which adjustments to make.
My AI turns my RingConn data into a health dashboard
He sends his RingConn 3 wearable data to his AI email address. It sends back a dashboard and tips to improve his health.
A small script watches for Rubik's cube competitions near his son and warns him eight hours before registration opens
His son is into Rubik’s cube competitions. Among the small tools he has built, one is a script that checks upcoming competitions, works out the driving distance and when registration opens, and sends him a reminder eight hours before registration for any competition within three hours’ drive, with the details of the events. He does not say yet whether it has caught one.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
An agent builds his client meeting deck two days before every meeting
Two days before a client meeting, his agent does a deep dive on the account, researches the market, and builds the PowerPoint deck and his notes. He walks in with the deck already made.
AI scripts run the air in my home studio
He built air quality management for his home studio, all scripted by AI. An AirGradient sensor feeds CO2, temperature and humidity into Home Assistant, which boosts ventilation, kicks on the heat pump, or runs the humidifier when the air drifts from comfortable.
I built an Illustrator sine wave tool in 5 minutes. It is free in my app.
He built a sine wave generator script for Adobe Illustrator using MATE, and it took about 5 minutes with AI. The script is now free for everyone in Astute Manager Pro.
The AI stood up 4 unfamiliar server services in 2 days, a week of work compressed
Used the AI to get 4 unfamiliar Proxmox LXC services working, drafting configs and VPN-only firewall rules in 2 days instead of about a week.
My agent got a $40 a month loyalty discount in writing but could not finish the job
He says the AI got a loyalty discount offered pretty quickly, about $40 a month, but could not finish the job: it let the chat time out instead of asking him to approve or confirming directly. Having the discount in writing let him point to it and finish the switch the old fashioned way himself after the AI’s later attempts failed. He still counts the $40 a month as saved.
$40a month
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Every morning my setup tells me when to charge the car and when to run the laundry
A Danish homeowner linked OpenAI to data from Home Assistant: his car battery, the family calendars and electricity prices. Every morning he gets a small report with advice on when to charge the car and when to wash and dry clothes.
The AI built the QNAP app I needed. It installed and works.
He needed an app on his QNAP NAS that only existed as open source Linux code, with no NAS package. He gave the AI the model, the AI searched the web and gave him a downloadable package in about ten and a half minutes, and he installed it and it works.
Plan our Florida skydiving day around flights, kids and the rental check-in
On one voice call, Eric and Jarvis planned a family holiday day in Florida: skydiving availability, airport pickup, three jumpers split across two aircraft loads, two boys waiting on the ground, drive time and rental check-in. They fit the jump into otherwise dead travel-transition time, and the shareable itinerary updated live as Eric revised details aloud, including moving the Everglades leg later.
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.