Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
A random mix from the whole library. Shuffle for a new set.
He told the AI to request anything it could get sent to him for free, with no limits set. So far a fabric sample and a lot of state travel guides have arrived, and he is a bit worried about how much more is coming.
Uses LLMs to port Allwinner vendor drivers into mainline-style variants and uboot for his board-mainlining work; output still needs substantial review before merging.
He built Barrelbound with GPT-6 Astra and generated art. The game has two heroes, three jungle courses, barrels and double jumps, and anyone can play it free in the browser.
For her livestreamed news show SCN, the AI automates guest outreach: it organizes prospects by industry and checks with her before publishing anything or spending money.
Personal-finance creator Tiffany Aliche (someone) had her AI 'Monae' pull her saved Instagram posts about New York City events and organize them into a dated 'Fall NYC Itinerary' — including Morgan Library and Frick Collection free Fridays — set it to update daily, and add selected events to her calendar.
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.
Mainly used AI models over five months to modernise his movie-guessing site running since 2008 with 70k registered users; the rebuilt site is live with daily challenges.
His kids' school sends 4 to 5 messages a day through My Child At School, an app he calls a beta version of AOL Instant Messenger. He created an agent with AI that logs in to it and sends him and his wife a daily summary email.
He makes and sells his own products. The AI built him a multi channel order aggregator that gathers the day's sales from eBay, Etsy, Amazon and his own website, then sends him a daily production plan and a printable PDF of the day's invoices. He reckons it saves 20 to 30 minutes a day.
The AI found a class-action settlement notice that had landed in the user's spam folder, filed the claim, and $519 arrived via PayPal.
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.