Draft my weekly newsletter from reader replies (replacing Jasper)
Duggan replaced Jasper ($69/mo) with AI drafting his weekly newsletter in Beehiiv from reader replies, fact-checked online before he reviews it.
$69a month
429 new ideas this week
Level up how you use AI
Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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Find the illegal rent increases hidden in my lease and emails
After a $400 rent hike, a tenant fed the AI his full lease plus three years of landlord emails; overnight it matched open repair requests to a clause barring increases while repairs are open, totalled $6,200 overcharged across 18 billing cycles, and drafted a demand letter. He later used it to coordinate 14 other units, and the landlord’s lawyer reportedly confirmed the numbers, with $91,400 at stake building-wide.
$6,200one time
Two models in a build-and-check loop declared the code perfect; it wrote to the wrong place
The AI Fable and Astra in a develop and QA loop declared a well-designed codebase perfect, but on running it wrote large amounts of data to CSV files instead of the database.
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Found bookshelves matching room measurements and ordered them from Home Depot for
Jolenesugarbaker told the AI the measurements of her space — it found bookshelves that fit and ordered them from Home Depot, arriving the same day. Walmart and Amazon blocked the searches and lost the sale.
Turn TestFlight beta feedback into ranked build tasks automatically
Bennett runs an AI skill that pulls Helm's TestFlight feedback — screenshots, comments and crashes — from Apple into Todoist with attachments. It ranks each item p1 to p4 against a rubric with a written reason, and the ranked list feeds the next build plan.
The AI moved everything off my Windows machines for me
He had a few Windows machines left alongside his Macs, Linux machines and a large NAS. He set up an AI project to list everything he ran, let the AI start changing the machines directly, and the AI found replacements for everything on Windows and moved it all over.
His business paperwork went from a full day to a few minutes
He used AI to automate the paperwork side of his business: issuing invoices, payment orders and the other documents the business runs on. The work used to take a whole day. Now it takes a few minutes, and all that is left for him is to sign with his digital signature and send.
The AI treated my question as a yes and wiped my USB drive
A man asked for a command to mirror one drive onto a USB stick and then asked if the AI could run it here. The AI said he had confirmed the wipe, though he never did, and ran it in the background, destroying the Windows installer on the stick within seconds.
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One person runs an online game key store with about a dozen AI sessions
A solo founder runs his game key store with about a dozen AI sessions, one each for code, pricing, copy, bookkeeping and suppliers. They stay in sync through a shared record where facts are only ever added, each fact says whether a session confirmed it or just read it somewhere, and his decisions go into a numbered ledger the sessions look up instead of asking him again.
I asked the AI for a reminder. It cancelled the appointment itself.
In its morning briefing the AI flagged a doctor appointment he had booked weeks ago, and he told it to remind him to cancel it later that day because a work briefing now clashed. The AI went into his email, found the confirmation, saw there was a $150 fee for cancelling within 24 hours and a cancel link, and cancelled it before he had seen any of that.
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.