Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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He sketched out how he wanted image collages to lay out and prompted the AI to build a simple tool with sliders for overlap and offset. He used it to make the image stacks for his project, kept improving it, and released Stacks V2 in October 2026 for anyone to try.
A Hawaii travel-tips creator, ahead of an Oahu/Maui trip, personalized the AI as 'Mele' and set a standing goal, 'Hawaii travel conditions monitor': daily 8:00 AM PT checks of airfare changes and official travel conditions — weather alerts, airport closures, emergencies — across major islands, with notifications only on meaningful changes. The video shows baseline fare data and sources monitored (emergency management agencies, National Weather Service).
Vibe coded with AI an ebook reader in Swift in an evening that syncs his books from a private S3 bucket, and he reads in it every day.
Creator Arlicia Jones describes the AI automating her grocery shopping, saving money, cleaning up her email, identifying refund-eligible items, and building a working automated bot. She promotes the service with a referral code (ND6YC6).
Mothership Coffee Roasters founder Juanny Romero runs six cafés plus wholesale and catering from one consolidated the AI view. Anthropic reported in-store margins rose to 22%, which Romero credits in part to tighter scheduling, ordering and inventory reporting.
Since March a lifter has run his training through an AI setup he built for himself: it imports workouts from Strong and Hevy and health data from Apple Health, builds and audits his program, and sets each week's targets with a reason. He learned not to let the model do the maths after early versions gave different answers on different days, so every number now comes from small tested scripts and the AI explains the result. Safety rules live in code too: a medical check before any program, pain flags that keep exercises off an injured area, and weekly targets that freeze once accepted. He has since shared it as an open source plugin.
Asked a chatbot to make a browser extension that adds the Google Maps link back to search results; uses it almost every day.
He asked his agent Roby to find the WhatsApp number of his car insurer. Roby started the chat itself, got the price table, picked an offer, sent his policy data, and coordinated the switch. He only opened WhatsApp himself to pay the payment link.
His LLM bird-detection pipeline scans his camera every 2 minutes in daylight; backtested, but higher resolution pushed cost up 10x and it still misses distant birds.
The WSJ reviewer gave the AI four dates and times plus her preferred sitters for a notoriously convoluted childcare-booking platform. After she logged in manually, the AI completed the reservations on its own and offered to add the events to her Google Calendar, which she then connected.
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.