Email Aside every six hours until my $20 refund is issued
The AI emailed the Aside app's support requesting a $20 refund and repeated the request every six hours until the refund was issued.
$20
A random mix from the whole library. Shuffle for a new set.
Money
Refunds, bills, deals and money you were owed · 465 ideasHis trading agent moved itself onto a server so his laptop could close
His stock trading agent, given SSH access to a VM, moved itself to run on the server so he no longer has to keep his laptop open.
Agents pull his banking data, label every transaction and run his budgeting dashboards
Personal finance advisor system: agents with computer use extracted data from legacy banking portals, labelled transactions, set up rules and configured dashboards on his budgeting app built to replace Monarch, with tax-loss harvesting and wash-sale prevention.
Recommended robot vacuums leaning on thin review sources — one repackaged Vacuum
Fast Company's Pete Pachal asked his AI 'Jones' which robot vacuum to buy. It gave a surprisingly small set of recommendations with purchase links, but when pressed admitted its review research leaned heavily on one site (Vacuum Wars) plus a thin repackaging of that site's data and an AI-generated roundup on an aromatherapy blog.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Translate my accountant's spreadsheet into the tax portal
A couple filed their own taxes - his simple, hers split between employment and freelancing. The AI made sense of the Excel spreadsheet their accountant sent and translated it into exactly what the tax portal expected, beating the tax advisor they hired two years earlier, who had made a significant mistake.
My agent built my budget tracker and updates it with my balances
Commenting on the 26 use cases post, she says she gave the AI access to her budget tracker sheets. It updates the tracker with her balances, and she set up alerts for when a category goes over plan. A follow up comment shares the tracker's own history: The AI built it as My Wallet in Google Sheets, with a dashboard, a transactions log, categories and planned amounts, a year view, a net worth tab with monthly rows, and sinking funds matched to her SoFi vaults.
The AI cut $140 from my AT&T bill
He says the AI helped him cut $140 from his AT&T bill. He adds that everyone he knows who uses AI has similar stories.
$140
Audited card statements and inbox, found a $200 the AI Max subscription he
Per the ai-first.fr writeup of the video: 'He gave it his card statements and his inbox, and the agent found a $200 the AI Max subscription he had stopped using, then cancelled it in the browser.' Reviewer says the AI saves him ~$1,000/month.
$200
The AI searched Amazon and found the Pokemon 30th anniversary items I wanted
The poster used AI to search through Amazon listings for the 30th anniversary Pokemon items they wanted. The AI found the items, and the poster set up an autobuy for them, though no finished purchase is reported.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Build my household budget and business books as two spreadsheets in 30 minutes
The AI built the user's full budget plus two Google Sheets, a personal budget for 2026 and business books for 2026, in under 30 minutes.
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