Barrelbound, my jungle game built with GPT-6 Astra, is free to play
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.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasThe AI could not get a single game mod of mine to work
He tried to mod his game with AI, which asked for his game files and offered XML mods. So far not one of the mods has worked.
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I built an AI gadget that talks and plays music on my desk
A hobbyist with no hardware experience wrote a custom board setup for a cheap ESP32-S3, flashed the AI Gadget code and paired it with his AI account. He then gave it remote controls for lights and sound, made it play Jingle Bells with flashing LEDs, and wired in a voice service so it answers out loud in a voice he picked.
The AI helped him build a desk flight radar that shows planes over his house
Made an ESP32 flight radar for his desk showing planes over his house, two of them including one for his wife, running around the clock.
I let the AI log in and fix my messy reading data. Ten minutes later it was in sync.
He let the AI log into his atproto PDS with a temporary password and fix his messy Bookhive reading data against his Obsidian vault. Ten minutes later, everything was in sync.
The AI built its own mail app in 23 minutes
Krushaal sent his AI one message asking it to build a Gmail style app for the bot's own new inbox. 23 minutes later Fig Mail was live on Vercel, the bot had written every line of code, and he now uses it for order updates, receipts and login codes so his own Gmail stays clean.
Built a school newsletter and permission slip from scratch for a school
One of eight hands-on tests run on the reviewer's real accounts; the AI scored 42.5/47 overall across the gauntlet.
The AI helped him put his genealogy work on one homepage
After putting it off for years, he worked with AI over a few sessions to build a homepage for his genealogy research. The page is up with links to eight parts of his work, and three of them already have material on them.
The AI fixed his years old Roon playback problem in minutes
He had given up on a years old problem getting Roon to play music on his PC. He put the problem to the AI, which read the log files, ran a test script, and fixed it in a few minutes.
He vibe-coded the photo and video editor he actually wanted in a couple of days
Vibe-coded his own photo and video editor with LLMs in a couple of days, covering organization and the image and video transforms he wanted.
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