Track replies to nine class inquiry emails and watch them daily
The AI sent and tracked nine inquiry emails about classes for the user's children, built a reply tracking table, and monitors the threads daily for responses.
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Kids, parents, partners and friends · 72 ideasThe AI logs into his child’s school system daily and puts homework on the calendar
A father set up the AI with access to his credential vault so it can log into his child’s school information system and the other school sites, pull together the homework and due dates, add them to the child’s calendar, and add a reminder the day before with a link. He modelled the workflow out formally and set it running daily.
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The AI’s animated demo explained the night sky to his 5-year-old better than anything he found
The AI whipped up an animated demo to teach his 5 year old why the sky is not black, a better explanation than existing ones he found.
Vibe-code a physical live scoreboard for my son's 10th birthday
A dad who had never built more than blinking lights and a dog-bark detector decided the commercial live MLB scoreboard was too expensive for what it did and built his own as his son's 10th-birthday gift - a physical product, not an app. Over months of nights and weekends with AI/the AI and the AI he went from concept to web preview to a parts list and a 3D-printed case screwed into the back; the finished board shows live MLB and NFL scores, pulls his son's own baseball games and practice schedule from GameChanger, runs arcade games, and has a quiet mode that shuts it down after bedtime.
The AI changed a word game's rules for his wife in about 10 minutes
The AI modified a NYT-style web game in about 10 minutes to change the rules for his wife; she was delighted.
An agent makes his daughter a new voice-acted adventure game every week
Agent cranks out a weekly voice-acted, scored adventure game episode for his daughter, tailored to her interests and what she is learning.
Pull my kids' Canvas every Sunday and email a school summary to their mom
A father posted on Threads on Oct 20 that the AI pulls his children's Canvas data every Sunday, flags only what matters — missing work, a slipping class, a big test coming — and emails the summary to the children's mother. He no longer has to remember to check the school portal himself.
The AI runs the school admin for my four kids
A mom of four school age kids started using AI last week and it already watches her school email, the grades site, Google Classroom and the ClassDojo app. It adds events and tests to the family calendar, sends a weekly report on missing assignments, reminded her about a field trip permission slip today, and drafts the email when a kid is out sick.
My agent sits in our family iMessage chat and told my wife dinner moved
He connected the AI to iMessage on his Mac with a BlueBubbles server, polling about every 5 seconds and waking only for allowlisted senders and chats. When he moved dinner with his wife by 30 minutes in his calendar, the AI messaged the family chat on its own and told his wife about the change.
The AI watched swimming lessons and booked one for his son the moment a spot opened
The AI monitored swimming lesson availability and automatically booked a suitable lesson for his son when one opened up.
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