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Refunds, bills, deals and money you were owed · 465 ideas

Negotiate a $200 mortgage late-fee refund

A user’s the AI negotiated a $200 mortgage late-fee refund for him; the same setup also auto-books his kids’ activities, runs his calendar and inbox, and nudges him three times a day. The refund came from the bot arguing his case with the lender.

$200one time

I am a scientist with no coding background. I built the portfolio tracker I wanted.

A materials scientist with a PhD and almost no coding background built and shipped a live stock portfolio tracker over about three months and 277 commits, pasting code blocks the AI gave him into a terminal and pasting the results back. The tracker is not about returns: it makes him write down why he bought a stock and what would prove him wrong, then pressure tests his reasoning and scores how well his past calls held up.

My agent checks every month for money owed to me and my family

He set up a monthly check for himself and his close family. The AI searches state unclaimed property sites and open class action settlements that fit the products and services they use. It found $250 from an old utility company in his name and $1,500 in his mom's name from an insurance company, and it found three class actions he could join and filled out the forms for him. It only pings him when something new shows up.

$1,750

It cancelled my Adobe plan and got $400 of membership fees back

Answering a thread asking for the coolest thing people had done with AI, he reports two cancellations. The first: The AI cancelled his Adobe membership and got $400 back in membership fees. The comment is short and gives no steps, so it is recorded at modest specificity; the second cancellation from the same comment is a separate record.

$400

Find couches that fit my doorway and watch them for price drops

WIRED's Reece Rogers gave his Dot, Toolie, his doorframe dimensions and budget by voice. Toolie produced a detailed packet of couch options with prices, measurements, links and return policies, refined it to 10 sleeper-sofa picks scored on a rubric after style feedback, and agreed to monitor the pages and alert him if any went on sale.

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