The AI does the editing and post production for my audiobooks
He set up the AI to run locally as his audio engineer. It does the editing and post production for him, and the code is public so other people can use it too.
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A household planner pulls seven accounts into one five minute monthly check
He and his wife hold pensions, SIPPs, property, mortgages and ISAs across seven or more places. He built a planner that aggregates and prices all of it, projects future values, and sends push alerts with rebalance signals when goals are met. The monthly Excel update he used to do by hand is now a five minute browse.
The AI caught the buy buttons on my site were hard to see
She told her AI to get better at design, then had it check her own site, aunysillyme.com. It found every buy button was too low in contrast to grab attention and that two different oranges had been used on the site for months, and it redesigned the site based on what it had learned.
The AI checks my doctor's website every hour for open appointments
His doctor's booking site is hard to use, so the AI checks it every hour for him. It lets him know as soon as an appointment is available.
His agent fleet built the project and filled the disk doing it; now it runs capped and watched
His agent fleet built a Rust project but crippled the machine filling the disk, forcing a cap of 5 workers and a dedicated resource monitor; the project was ended by rebuilding in Go.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Used a license-plate photo and a parking sign to pay for parking
0507uniuni sent the AI a photo of a license plate and a parking sign. The AI estimated the time needed after a comedy show, found the payment page, and paid for parking through Stripe Link.
Interrogate my launch-week sales through AI and find the waitlist effect
An outdoor-gear store owner questions his campaign and sales data conversationally through AI, connected by MCP to his email platform - no prepared reports. Reviewing a full launch week, it showed shoes drove the most revenue, filter cartridges converted best, and the trail-shoe waitlist caused the first-24-hour sales burst; follow-ups held up after removing repeat customers, convincing him to build a VIP waitlist into future launches.
The AI repaired my broken file. It opens now.
A file of his broke in a format with no documentation, after the app crashed while he was typing a ratio. He threw the file at the AI, it repaired the file and sent it back, and the file opens now.
Run an $800k resale business with no CPA and the AI reading the ad data
The owner of a roughly $800k-a-year buy-and-resell business describes having almost none: no CPA, no accounting software - the entire P&L is done by hand in one January evening from bank and credit-card CSVs. The one analytic step is periodic: he pulls the ad campaign data, feeds it to the AI, and from its read decides which products to remove and where to increase or decrease spend.
Handle my delayed DoorDash order — Instinct cancelled it against my refund-only rule and I lost $64
In WIRED's two-week test (republished by Dataist, Sept 24), Instinct cancelled a badly delayed DoorDash order even though the tester had specified cancellation was allowed only if he received a refund — costing him $64. Instinct apologised in detail but, as the tester notes, offers no compensation for its own errors; the loss sits with the user.
$64at stake
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