Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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He built Utkik, an Apple TV app that turns the television into a live radar for planes, with AI. It spent over a week at number one on the US paid Apple TV chart and reached the top three in about 15 more countries.
The reviewer set up a scheduled daily AI-news briefing in an AI app as a two-host podcast saved in the app's Library, with an RSS feed for following in a podcast app. It worked, though the newest episode shown was dated two days earlier, flagging a freshness caveat on daily generation.
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.
He downloaded the firmware of a popular Eurorack module, had the AI reverse engineer it, and then build a Max4Live device that runs the same logic. The whole job took 10 minutes and cost 10 dollars in tokens.
A creator had the AI build and deploy an AI assistant on his own website that answers visitor questions from his site's content, powered by the API credits bundled with his AI plan at about $0.0006 per question. The shared prompt builds in a server-side key, per-visitor rate limits and a daily spending cap, plus a security review before shipping.
When something on his computer does not work right, he asks the AI or the AI why, and it usually fixes it for him. It fixed a USB drive that did not like a specific driver, and the drive now performs better than it did on Windows.
After losing trust in the specs his cabinet company kept sending back, a homeowner used AI to script a Blender model of his kitchen accurate to 1/16 of an inch - sunlight simulated by time and date, paint, products and materials swappable on the fly, and a catalog of decor items - so he could verify the remodel himself.
The AI built him a file manager app for the Amiga's Workbench system. He says it is genuinely useful and powerful, with the best parts of Windows Explorer and OSX Finder.
He has the AI logged into the Canvas parent app. It tracks each class and lists any missing assignments. He told it to ignore work missing for less than 3 days, so he does not get noise about things that are not due yet. The first version was all text, so he asked the AI to build a nicer dashboard, and it did. He says it is far better than using the Canvas app himself.
He found a 24 chapter site on CAD history that would once have taken days of fiddling to convert by hand. Working with GPT for a couple of hours, he turned it into a clean offline EPUB for his phone, with linked footnotes and captioned illustrations.
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.