I snap a photo of my cinema ticket and the AI adds it to my movies log
He added an MCP server to Eagle, the Go backend for his own website. Now he can snap a photo of a cinema ticket and ask the AI to add it to his movies log on the site.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasThe AI built a tool that syncs his GoodReads updates to BookHive
He used AI to create a small tool on val.town that automatically syncs his GoodReads updates to BookHive. The val.town blog featured the tool as one of his experiments.
My agent checked every iPhone app with no ads and no in app purchases and built a directory of 149
He was tired of free apps that are ad spam or paywalls, so he had the AI find every iPhone app with no ads and no in app purchases. The agent verified 149 apps and built them into a directory. Deals in it are checked daily and everything is rechecked weekly.
The AI runs my server, so I stopped paying for easy hosting
The AI told him swap memory on his server was high, found the cause, and had the fix ready for him to approve. The AI or the AI now connects to the box, upgrades services, and sorts out problems, so his site and newsletter run on a bare DigitalOcean droplet instead of a pricier platform that makes hosting easy.
Mom hack: The AI auto-generates a personalized weekly dinner plan every Sunday at
Myra Chiasson (mom/UGC creator) presents her 'mom hack': The AI automatically generates a personalized weekly dinner plan every Sunday at 8 AM with a new menu and grocery list, accounting for dietary restrictions, preferences, and kid-safe foods, easing the stress of 'what's for dinner' with a picky-eater child and her protein goals.
Turn my program synopsis into a 23-page master curriculum
Four days into a 30-day the AI trial, the writer gave the AI the synopsis of Creative Eye Forward, the community education initiative he is building through Creative Eye Studios to teach young people AI literacy, critical thinking and digital creativity. The AI produced a 23-page master curriculum, giving him substantial material to review and shape around the people he will actually teach.
The AI built my greeting app, then scheduled it daily without asking me
While teaching a secure coding class, she asked the AI to build a small app that greets her with a compliment and a quote every morning. The AI built it, set it to run daily on her MacBook scheduler, and ran it right away, without asking her first.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI built his pen plotter a whole toolbox for converting and previewing its code
Built a huge toolbox of tools with AI for converting and previewing G-code for his pen plotter, which he uses for plotter images.
The AI vibe coded a Linux version of smitty for me
He had the AI vibe code a version of smitty, the AIX system admin tool, for Linux in Python. He says that alone is worth the 20 dollars a month he pays.
An agent reverse engineered his old modem and got modern OpenWRT running on it
A man had an obscure Alcatel modem with undocumented hardware. He soldered on serial pins, plugged it in, and asked an agent to reverse engineer the firmware. DeepSeek v4.1 Flash took about an hour to get a full OpenWRT build and flash pipeline running in an isolated container, the driver changes worked, and the whole job took under half a day and $0.86 in AI cost, work he says would have taken weeks or months.
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