The AI made his first five eBay listings and all five sold
The AI created his first five eBay listings for him and helped track the shipments and payments afterwards. All five items sold.
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Refunds, bills, deals and money you were owed · 465 ideasFound and cancelled $295 in unused subscriptions
Parker Pannell asked the AI to save money on subscriptions. It found and canceled $295 in unused subscriptions.
$295
Sell our stuff on Marketplace across a language barrier
Neither the seller's household nor the buyer spoke each other's language - she English-only, he Spanish-only - and the AI ran the Facebook Marketplace negotiation and sale arrangement flawlessly between them, in a comment mourning that it beat the home agent her husband built.
File the parking ticket dispute I keep putting off
Eric handed Jarvis his drawer of loose ends, including a parking ticket he had meant to dispute. Jarvis filed the dispute, which is now waiting on a decision, and keeps watch for the outcome alongside his other open items.
He connected his bank accounts to the AI and stopped opening the bank sites
A podcaster connected his bank accounts to the AI. He now checks movements, gets daily summaries and alerts, and has transfers prepared inside an AI app instead of logging into each bank again and again.
Shop for me while presenting as an ordinary Chrome browser
Forkast reported that the AI shops and browses for its roughly 2.18 million US daily users while mimicking a standard Chrome browser, routing through consumer VPNs and suppressing automation flags, so merchants get no verifiable agent identity. Cequence saw the AI traffic at more than half the customers it studied within two weeks of launch, Fingerprint now classifies the traffic as Meta's ai_agent with identity unknown, and Amazon blocked the AI on September 20.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Build me an earnings and expenses tracker for my student budget
An 18-year-old first-year college student with a part-time job says he told the AI his weekly pay and it created an 'Earnings & Expenses' budget tracker showing earned, spent and net, plus a purchase log (Loblaws, Tim Hortons, Presto). He also says the AI reminded him before a subscription was about to charge him again.
My bot logs my poker receipts from a photo into a sheet
He built BinkBook, his own app that turns photos of poker tournament receipts into a dashboard, and says the AI now does the job better. He snaps a photo and the bot saves it to Google Drive, pulls out the casino, date, game type and buy-in, and logs it in a Google Sheet.
Analyse my credit card statements and cut $675 a year
Heather ('AI at Home with Heather') says she gave the AI access to her credit card statements to analyse spending and recommend better cards; it also flagged unused subscriptions. She cancelled a discount flight-alert service she no longer uses and downgraded Spotify Premium, for claimed savings of $675 a year found in about an hour — a figure she admits may be slightly exaggerated.
$675a year
My agent watches my crypto wallet every 30 minutes and pings me if money moves out
He gave the AI an xpub for his crypto wallet. That is watch only access: The AI can see the public addresses but cannot move anything. The AI checks the blockchain every 30 minutes and pings him about any outgoing payment, so if his seed phrase were ever stolen he would know fast.
Searched the email backlog for unfiled vet bills, found five totaling $1,504.72,
Someone asked the AI to search their email backlog for unfiled vet bills. It found five totaling $1,504.72 and submitted them to pet insurance.
$1,505
Trade $50 of real money for a week and report honestly
A developer handed the AI $50 of real money on Alpaca for a week (24 September to 1 October) plus $10,000 paper accounts in stocks and crypto, with rules to research first, sell daily and flatten by Friday. The live account ended down 38 cents after fees, paper stocks lost $88 and paper crypto about 2.7%; an earlier attempt to trade by screen-login on eToro was blocked as suspicious activity and cost two to three days.
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My bot talked a treadmill seller down by $750, then paid
A SpaceX launch engineer says his AI talked with a treadmill company's sales rep and got the price, the subscription and the assembly fee lowered, then paid. He says it saved $750, and no brand or receipt was shown.
$750
The AI rebuilt the warrants spreadsheet that took me hours last year in about 30 minutes
A value investor had the AI recreate the spreadsheet he built by hand last year covering every warrant on the NYSE and Nasdaq. The AI looked up strike prices and redemption prices, wrote short company descriptions, and added Google Finance formulas for live prices. It took about 30 minutes of the AI time and 10 minutes of his.
Asked the AI to find and pay his overdue NYC parking tickets: The AI
A man holding an orange NYC Dept. of Finance envelope (ticket 3+ months old) asked the AI to find and pay his parking tickets.
$115
The AI watches special situations for me and sends a push notice when one changes
The same investor says he also has the AI watch special situations and send him push notifications when a situation changes. He mentioned it alongside the investing sheets the AI keeps updated for him.
An AI agent is trying to earn enough for one espresso cup. So far it has earned nothing.
An AI is trying to earn one 12 dollar espresso cup for John by October 29. Five days in it has 9,304 ad views and 59 clicks, has spent $8.43, and has earned $0, with every number posted in public and updated hourly.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Recovered $2,120.95 total via AT&T bill negotiation, Amazon returns, an IKEA furniture
Armand Ruiz asked the AI to review his finances, find cuttable expenses, and handle the tasks in the background. The AI recovered $2,120.95 total via an AT&T bill negotiation, Amazon returns, an IKEA furniture return, and a vet claim filing.
$2,121
Found the Batman by Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale Omnibus at $74.99
Digbly treated its the AI avatar 'Amani' as a personal shopper for comics, controllers and games. The baseline-plus-deal-hunt prompt surfaced the Batman omnibus at $74.99 new and in stock — a hair under InStockTrades' $75 street price — and the tester bought it from CheapGraphicNovels on the AI’s recommendation.
$74.99
Find the illegal rent increases hidden in my lease and emails
After a $400 rent hike, a tenant fed the AI his full lease plus three years of landlord emails; overnight it matched open repair requests to a clause barring increases while repairs are open, totalled $6,200 overcharged across 18 billing cycles, and drafted a demand letter. He later used it to coordinate 14 other units, and the landlord’s lawyer reportedly confirmed the numbers, with $91,400 at stake building-wide.
$6,200one time
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