Built a portfolio-aware feed from interests and holdings inferred from email
Mostly Borrowed Ideas had the AI infer his interests and holdings from email and use them to fill his AI feed. The agent built a portfolio-aware feed from Gmail.
A random mix from the whole library. Shuffle for a new set.
Hobbies
Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasThe AI is helping me get back 15 year old tweets and photos I thought were lost
He is recovering his 15 year old tweets with photos that he thought were basically lost, with AI's help. The AI also built him a custom GUI editor that he will use once to hand edit the collections of tweets.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI built his comment-quality extension for this very site in about 10 minutes
The AI plus Jev built a browser extension in about 10 minutes that ranks HN comments for sloppiness, which he uses to view HN.
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 keeps his hobby history site published, pictures resized and dead links replaced
The AI keeps his hobby history site published, adds and resizes new pictures on request, and checks dead links and finds archive replacements.
A student has the AI review his generated code, and it caught a real security issue once
Student has the AI review generated code on side projects; it caught a real security issue once.
The AI sorts and files each piece I draft into my Obsidian vault
He drafts in an AI app, and the AI itself sorts each piece, tags it, and moves it word for word into his Obsidian vault using a skill he built. The filing runs as part of how he writes.
Generate a video of my agent avatar that stays the same character
Noah asked the AI to generate a video of his agent avatar Q sitting at his desk, noticing the viewer and waving. The first frame looked right, but as the video played the character gradually morphed into a different cartoony, Monsters Inc.-style figure, and no retry kept the style or character consistent. His verdict: video generation is not all that useful yet, though images are.
This one went wrong. See what happened before you try it.
Tidehook, my tug boat game built with GPT-6 Astra, is free to play
He built Tidehook with GPT-6 Astra and generated art. Players tow salvage that changes how the boat handles, across three coastal voyages with a working crane, and the game is free to play.
The AI revived the music app port that lets his Linux machine play his library
The AI updated apple-music-for-linux so it works again.
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.