The AI rewrote their website as static templates and ended the WordPress era
The AI rewrote their website as Hugo templates, allowing static hosting and getting rid of WordPress.
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Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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A household planner pulls seven accounts into one five minute monthly check
He and his wife hold pensions, SIPPs, property, mortgages and ISAs across seven or more places. He built a planner that aggregates and prices all of it, projects future values, and sends push alerts with rebalance signals when goals are met. The monthly Excel update he used to do by hand is now a five minute browse.
The AI merged two photos of the same spot into one family picture, faces intact
The AI with Photocraft combined people from two photos of the same location into one photo in 3 tries over 5 minutes, after the AI attempts had changed faces.
Agent wired into a shop inbox answered a supplier invoice as a cake order
A man wired an AI agent into a small business's order inbox and it passed every test he wrote. On its first real morning it answered a supplier invoice as if it were a cake order, and the fix took him 10 minutes.
This one went wrong. See what happened before you try it.
I cut my bots' wakeups from about 300 a week to about 140
Eleanor Konik had the AI count the scheduled wakeups across her AI and the AI jobs and found about 300 a week, with roughly half of them wasted. One round of checking, done with AI's help, got the count to about 140 a week with no coverage lost, and about 128 of the old wakeups were just a bot noticing it was 2 AM or a Saturday and going back to sleep.
Shopped car insurance with a screenshot comparison: Progressive $1,556 vs GEICO $2,324.63
Dan Zhao posted a dark-mode screenshot recommending the AI for auto-insurance shopping, claiming over $1,000/year in savings. The comparison shows six-month premiums: Progressive $1,556 as the new leader vs Costco Connect $2,142.75 and current GEICO $2,324.63.
$1,556
The AI jailbroke my old Kindle and turned it into a wall dashboard
He used AI to jailbreak an old Kindle and set it up as a small wall dashboard. The whole job took about 10 minutes.
The AI keeps his home lab's inventory and documentation current on its own
AI agent populates and keeps updating home lab inventory and documentation in Netbox.
He gave the AI $10,000 to trade, and it is up 11% at day 69
Dave Hamilton put $10,000 from a domain sale into a 90 day test and let the AI run it. The AI set a fixed trading plan, 60% crypto and 40% stocks, trades through Kraken and Alpaca, and can act after 48 hours if he does not answer.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Used a license-plate photo and a parking sign to pay for parking
0507uniuni sent the AI a photo of a license plate and a parking sign. The AI estimated the time needed after a comedy show, found the payment page, and paid for parking through Stripe Link.
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.