A barcode library built with a new model, tested on labelled real-world images, published in 3 languages
Used GPT-6 to develop a new barcode scanner library, built a labelled real-world test suite, and published it for JS, Python and Rust.
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Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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Sent 25 brand outreach emails with metrics and set 3-day automated follow-ups
Bybatee's AI agent 'squishy' sent 25 outreach emails to brands in her niche — with her metrics, portfolio, and media kit attached — and set automated follow-ups after 3 days for non-responses.
Smarsh's Emmy Agent Resolves 31% of Cases and Saves Reps 7.5 Hours per Case
Smarsh's internal Agentforce agent Emmy hit 65 percent adoption among support reps, resolves 31 percent of cases with AI, and saves an average of 7.5 hours per case.
The AI cut $60 a month off my internet bill
A man used AI to lower his internet bill by $60 a month. He says it was free, took 30 minutes in the background, and needed very little from him.
$60a month
The AI sorted our Estonian books by the families that printed them
They had never cataloged the publisher for most of their Estonian books. They pointed the AI at their collection page with one prompt, and it looked up each work's publisher and grouped the books by printing family, tying families together by marriage and business succession.
Run my 6:15 a.m. morning brief and my standing checks
In his four-day the AI trial diary, the writer describes the routines now running for him: a 6:15 a.m. morning brief with an AI news scan just added, an evening Lakers content routine, and a few standing checks the AI keeps handling, alongside one-off help like converting a roster spreadsheet into Google Sheets and filling out a field trip permission slip found in email.
I asked my agent to edit a whole video. It did.
He asked his AI to edit an entire video and it did the work, from picking the takes to lowering the music in the quiet parts. The video is the third in his series about building his toolstack with an agent.
Rebooked the same hotel, room, and dates at a lower rate and
Threads creator hashtaglima had the AI watch a booked hotel reservation; when the rate dropped, the AI rebooked the exact same hotel, room, and dates at the lower price, saving $179 — and the creator verified the saving with the hotel itself.
$179
Detect competitor positioning changes from my search data
Tester Diana fed the AI three competitor pages plus her own search-metric and page-copy exports after live URLs alone gave unreliable visual change detection. Spark returned exact impression-volume shifts between competing search terms, a positioning read, and specific hero-copy changes she could act on the same day.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Turn any restaurant menu into a screen-reader-friendly page with a shareable link
Whenever he visits a restaurant, the reviewer asks the AI to rebuild its menu as an accessible web page, with each category as an H2 heading and each item as an H3, delivered as a shareable HTTP link he can navigate by headings with a screen reader.
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