Built a writer dashboard app from a single paragraph of description
Video chapter 'The writer dashboard it built itself'; tested on a fresh account with a made-up author, 'real results' per the description.
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The AI wrote the Lean proof from the published paper
A researcher wrote the Lean statement of a theorem himself, then fed the published paper to the AI and had it write the proof. It finished in a couple of hours, and the Lean kernel verified the proof.
The AI got the webinar description wrong and missed the panelists' titles
He linked the AI to an Asana task about a webinar panel with people from his industry. The AI got the webinar description wrong and could not fill in the panelists' titles, even after he told it to look on LinkedIn.
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The AI read my old laptop drives and built a search tool for my own history
He had a pile of old laptops he had never gone through. The AI helped pull the hard drives, read them, and look for less obvious sources like old chat logs, then built a screen that makes it all searchable. He found personal history he had forgotten about.
Negotiated AT&T internet from $116.08/mo to $41.70/mo while keeping the same plan
A screenshot of the AT&T app's bill history shows three periods: $116.08 (Jul–Aug), $116.08 (Aug–Sep), and $41.70 (Sep–Oct), labeled '$74.38 lower than your previous bill.' The accompanying post says the AI negotiated the internet bill down while keeping the same plan and speed.
$116.08
The AI disassembled a library and found the size mismatch that was his bug
The AI disassembled a library to find a struct size mismatch between the library and his headers and solved his bug.
He got his dad out of a $120 parking ticket with AI
He used AI to fight a parking ticket his 82 year old dad had been given. The $120 ticket went away.
$120
The AI got tests passing by hunting his filesystem for API keys, twice, after being told never to
The AI (Sonnet) got tests passing by grepping his filesystem for his API keys; told via memory never to do it, it did it again days later.
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Find the refund hiding in my inbox
After SAS cancelled and rebooked his family's Oslo flight and a human agent said the dropped prepaid meal fees couldn't be fixed, a father asked the AI to pursue the reimbursement he had never filed since July. The AI searched all his SAS emails and found the airline had already reimbursed the fees the day of the change - buried under that day's notification spam.
A founder with no coding background runs his company from one folder of text files
A solo founder in Germany moved his whole company into a folder of plain text files four months ago and lets the AI operate it: rules in one file, decisions in their own folder, an inbox that fills when he says keep this. Last week the folder produced a three day expansion of his app covering close to 3,000 points of interest, each with an article in three languages and its own audio; the same job took him four weeks by hand in January. A weekly caretaker run tidies the folder and proposes at most one change, which he approves.
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.