Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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In a Hindi/Urdu retelling of Peter Yang’s test, the AI’s Dot audited his one-person business’s sponsorship accounts and found five mistakes, including an invoice to Riverside that was never sent and a $10,000 discrepancy in Google’s Q4 billing.
The AI reviewed roughly 1,000 pages of the user's medical records spanning eight years and surfaced the relevant tests and medications for the user's AFib care team.
The AI found the user a car ferry from Croatia to Italy, avoiding $2,200 in rental drop-off fees, booked and paid for it, pulled the plate and car model from the rental agreement, and confirmed he was insured for the voyage.
Yair Savlevi asked the AI to watch a booked United fare and get a credit if the price dropped. The AI secured $1,000 in credit.
A man spent a few weeks building a work AI agent for compliance checks. Today it worked through a 200 question information security audit bank and completed the 119 items that match answers to the correct standard procedures in 15 minutes. That section normally takes him a whole day.
Laura Legge (32K followers) challenged herself to feed a family of four on $30/week using pantry items (salmon, frozen mixed veggies, turkey breast, oils, seasonings). The 'the AI Atlas' app returned a seven-dinner plan with recipes, a missing-items grocery list, and a browser price comparison across Walmart, Stater Bros., and ALDI for zip code 92880 — Walmart won at $29.66.
Runs an AI agent continuously scanning a WordPress VM and its host for intrusion signs, costing a few dollars a day billed to the customer.
A fellow parent pointed him to the Tilt Parenting podcast, which has more than 500 episodes. He told his second brain in an AI app to search the archive for episodes relevant to his situation, and it picked 29 episodes, saved their transcripts, and wrote him a brief on what each one could teach him.
Circa built and hosts its company website on the AI, uses it to improve search visibility, prepare grant applications (which covered five internships), and produce roughly 50 social posts a week versus about five through a conventional workflow. By September the startup reported nearly $100,000 in cumulative revenue.
Today he and the AI hacked a cheap Wish smartwatch he had abandoned for years. Now the watch talks to an AI model running locally, like a bargain basement Alexa.
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.