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.
The AI walked his Android TV box through installing SmartTube, changed the playback settings, and imported his channel list from a NewPipe backup. It was done in minutes and replaced a setup he called poor man's Netflix.
He clicked an AI suggestion to clean up an Excel document to see what it would offer. Excel crashed at once, and his unsaved documents could not be recovered.
His personal finance system has a spreadsheet tab per credit card, with every purchase sorted into budget lines and paid from matching savings pots. Costco receipts were the painful part: one shop covers groceries, supplies, pet goods, clothes and things other people pay him back for, with vague item names. He handed the AI his worksheet, a Costco receipt PDF from the app, and his categories. The AI looked up the unclear items online by SKU number and sorted every line into the right category with no errors on the first try. He says it will save him over an hour every week.
A man in Korea runs 17 AI bots for the back office of his distribution company. The bots get statements, customer emails and claim rows ready, then post each one in Slack so a person can approve or cancel it before anything goes out.
His local school division released the raw answers to a touchy redistricting survey as one PDF of more than 3,000 pages, which nobody could realistically read. He used AI to write scripts that pulled the answers out and built a public web page where people can search the responses and filter them by keyword and by school.
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.
Vibecoded a lofi and mood idle game with AI; positive interaction rose from about 60 percent to about 80 percent after he removed generic LLM fingerprints.
With the help of the AI, ported the current dev branch of Qt6 back to Windows XP with working OpenGL.
After SAS cancelled and moved a flight, the user rebooked at extra cost and lost prepaid food. The reimbursement claim sat undone for months until the AI searched the SAS emails and found confirmation that the food fees had already been refunded the same day — no claim needed.
Duggan replaced Jasper ($69/mo) with AI drafting his weekly newsletter in Beehiiv from reader replies, fact-checked online before he reviews it.
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.