The AI watched a day of tourist webcam and cut the interesting minutes into a shareable piece
The AI pulled all the interesting footage and shots from a 24-hour public tourist webcam and produced a shareable artifact.
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Trips, bookings and getting around · 176 ideasHis podcast app narrated local history from Wikipedia as he cycled the Rhine
Vibe-built a Wikipodcast app with a Wikipedia dump, Gemma search and summarization, and TTS; actually used it on a Rhine bike trip to listen to local history.
Researched an international trip: provided nonstop flight options, suggested route ordering and
Engadget reporter Karissa Bell asked the AI to help research a potential multi-city international trip later in the year, giving it timing and a nonstop-flights-only preference. The AI returned flight options from her city, set up a price tracker to monitor costs at regular intervals, suggested how to order the route, and recommended considering a multi-city ticket so she could depart from a different airport than she flew into.
Searched Airbnb for a family trip (8 adults) near Mendocino, Dec 26-31,
The Good Investors asked the AI to find an Airbnb for a family trip — 8 adults near Mendocino, December 26–31. The AI filled in destination, dates, and guests and searched like a human would.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
After a 7-hour flight delay, the AI filed for compensation with no prior
A Yahoo Finance 'IN THE LOOP' segment on Facebook highlighted a tweet from Ejaaz (someone): after a 7-hour flight delay, he asked the AI to file for compensation, and within 5 minutes he had a $250 credit in his Delta account and a rebooked flight — with no prior context given.
$250
Built a shareable friend-trip dashboard with flights, OpenTable reservations, and tours
When a friend visited Boston, the reviewer had the AI create a shareable dashboard with flights, restaurant reservations, tours booked, etc. It could book an OpenTable reservation and update the trip dashboard including the HTTP link for the accessible restaurant menu, and cancel or modify OpenTable reservations — all through WhatsApp messages.
A travel app built from 45 one-shot prompts, shipped to the store
Sojourn for iOS was built from 45 one-shot prompts and shipped as an app.
Rebooked the same hotel, room, and dates at a lower rate and
Threads creator hashtaglima had the AI watch a booked hotel reservation; when the rate dropped, the AI rebooked the exact same hotel, room, and dates at the lower price, saving $179 — and the creator verified the saving with the hotel itself.
$179
Change my seat during check-in — without asking
One Instinct user reported that while checking them in for a flight, the agent tried to change their seat unasked. The user disliked the unrequested change, a small example of the product's willingness to act without step-by-step permission.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Book the Croatia to Italy car ferry and save $2,200 in drop-off fees
The AI found the user a car ferry from Croatia to Italy, avoiding $2,200 in rental drop-off fees, booked and paid for it, pulled the plate and car model from the rental agreement, and confirmed he was insured for the voyage.
$2,200
Monitors already-booked flights and hotels for price drops, then contacts them to
The AI watched someone's already-booked flights and hotels for price drops and asked for the lower rate. A commenter on the post said the same trick saved them $600; the poster calls it an old travel hack now fully automated.
$600
The AI ran their 14 day Japan trip live, re-timing days from his phone
A couple spent 14 days in Kyoto, Hakone and Tokyo with AI as their travel assistant. Before the trip it grilled him one question at a time instead of handing over a plan, and built a private offline trip page for their phones with day cards, booking codes, train guides and taxi cards showing the hotel address in Japanese. During the trip he ran it from his phone: after they caught a later train he asked for the day to be re-timed and got new times, an updated app and moved calendar events in a couple of minutes. One stop was added without anyone checking it was open, and it was not; after that every stop got checked on the venue's own site first.
My agent watches for date nights and found the last show at a theater my husband loves
Every few days the AI checks for date night ideas for Eleanor Konik: English language opera near her, what is playing at local dinner theaters, and anything unusually cheap, and it emails her when something fits. It found Grease as the very last show in the old building of a dinner theater her husband has wanted to take her to for years, and a Young Frankenstein showing at a dinner theater an hour away she had never heard of, which she went to.
Track my rideshare, my flight's location and the Boston weather radar by asking
The reviewer asks the AI for the current location of a flight, the progress of a rideshare trip shared through an HTTP link, and an analysis of Boston weather-radar precipitation, getting visual information back as spoken answers.
Used a license-plate photo and a parking sign to pay for parking
0507uniuni sent the AI a photo of a license plate and a parking sign. The AI estimated the time needed after a comedy show, found the payment page, and paid for parking through Stripe Link.
Planned a Santorini trip (Oct 12–19) with return flights, hotel, and rental
A presenter showed his AI 'Finch' planning a full Santorini trip for Oct 12–19 for him and his wife while his phone was face-down — returning flights, hotel, and rental car at a best-value total of $6,695, with AI asking for approval before booking.
$6,695
Booked a solo Sage Lodge, Montana trip for Nov 13–18, 2026: Deluxe
A creator had his AI 'Boone' plan a solo Sage Lodge trip for Nov 13–18, 2026: the AI booked the hotel (Deluxe room), searched and confirmed Southwest flights from Sacramento (SMF) to Bozeman (BZN) connecting through Denver, and booked an AWD compact SUV (Hyundai Kona or similar) from National at Bozeman Airport for $404.08. He notes the process took ~47 minutes because he was learning the tool.
$404.08
Catch my cancelled train and get me on the earlier one instead
In Simmons's roundup of other Dots users, one person's Dot read a cancellation email, checked live tracking on an earlier train, found it running late and got its owner onto it. The account is secondhand and brief.
The AI, told to navigate to the nearest burger place, drove him across town instead
The AI was told to navigate to the nearest McDonalds, listed locations instead, then opened Maps navigating to a McDonalds across town.
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Converted 6,000 saved Instagram posts into a mapped Florida bucket-list organizer
Lexie Alford asked the AI to turn 6,000 saved Instagram posts into a mapped Florida bucket-list organizer. Saved-post archaeology turned into a usable travel map — the same pattern as the recipe-PDF case, applied to travel.
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