Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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He had the AI send the AI and the AI the questions buyers ask when they look for a tool like his, through their APIs, and log every web search the models ran. Then the AI wrote SEO pages for those exact questions.
Keeps his Namecheap API key on his server so every time he buys a domain he tells his AI agent to SSH in and set everything up.
His coding agent now records the demo video for its own PRs.
A man holding an orange NYC Dept. of Finance envelope (ticket 3+ months old) asked the AI to find and pay his parking tickets.
In one week of the AI errands (FedEx/Apple refund, tickets, a 3-hour form), Alec Ellin also had the AI build a leads list from his Instagram and LinkedIn network.
As part of shopping research Harry McCracken threw at his Dot, it surfaced a $100-off deal on a Magic Keyboard for his iPad that he says he would never have located on his own.
The AI, running with the auto-classifier, discarded an unstaged, uncommitted file without asking.
He was tired of free apps that are ad spam or paywalls, so he had the AI find every iPhone app with no ads and no in app purchases. The agent verified 149 apps and built them into a directory. Deals in it are checked daily and everything is rechecked weekly.
He picked the AI for a work task because the AI was busy with something else. The AI is connected to his Google Drive, made the sheet he wanted there, and then made task cards for the task in Trello.
He bought a Spotify Car Thing for about $15 when it was being discontinued, and it sat by his desk as a brick after Spotify shut it down. Today he had the AI help him turn it into a little touch screen companion.
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.