Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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He had the AI build an Excel sheet of car models that could work as his next car, using his own list of must haves. The sheet came back with 65 options, with size, comfort and whether each one comes as an automatic.
Airbnb raised its cut from 3 percent to 15.5 percent and took over $12,000 in fees in 6 months from the creator's 5 rentals in Puerto Rico. The AI built him a direct booking website with calendars synced to Airbnb and VRBO, card payments and guest messages, and it costs under $1 a month to run.
He built a workflow that connects to their bank accounts and credit cards through Plaid and emails him and his wife a budget update three times a week, showing how they are tracking against the budget, with spending analysis and suggestions for cheaper alternatives.
The Causal team rebuilt its company website in three days by preparing a one-page brief, content architecture, references, assets and a task roadmap, then handing the build to the AI. Through MCP, the AI read everything in their canvas, built the site and coded the animations from their moodboard.
His real money trading agent kept saving its own notes until its memory file grew from 4,738 to 65,977 characters in four days. One night it retried a failing step 51 times, burned $36.91, and ate 43% of his whole project API spend.
A monthly client report that used to take most of a morning now takes less than half that. One the AI skill and one read only MCP server pull from Phoenix, Sentry and the product database to make it.
Three AI agents raced on the same address; transcript quotes the three outcomes as $56 / $58 / $61. The AI secured $56, the lowest of the three.
He exported all his bookkeeping to text and let the AI take care of it. Thirty minutes later it was in better shape than ever.
Ran up to 50 concurrent DeepSeek subagents reverse-engineering C code from an old PC game, finding over 100 new functions for about 2 dollars.
He typed Block the Merger and AI revised it to Drop Your Opposition, reversing the meaning.
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.