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 ideasThe AI could not get past the robot check on delta.com
A Delta flyer asked the AI to check that he was using all his Delta benefits. The AI could not get past the robot check screen on delta.com, even when he took over the browser and clicked it himself. Every login try was blocked.
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The AI planned her 4-day Dallas trip — six events, drive times and timed departures
Traveling with ADHD usually meant late-night overplanning; for a Dallas trip she delegated to the AI, which planned and curated four days and six events, mapped drive times and timed departures so she could just pack and show up (paid partnership post).
After a founder left his ID on a plane, the AI autonomously arranged
In a clip from David Senra's interview with Meta's Alexandr Wang (shared on Instagram by someone), Senra recounts a billion-dollar-company founder friend who left his ID on a plane and told the AI he didn't want to be involved in the recovery process at all. The AI arranged a courier, coordinated with building security, went to the office, retrieved the ID, and got it back to him.
The AI planned his Vegas weekend and kept the group money split straight by itself
A man used AI to plan a weekend trip to Vegas with elderly family, shortlisting dining and events around dietary restrictions. The AI also built a web app dashboard for the trip and handled the payment splitting: he told it what each person spent for the group, it kept running totals split three ways, and when a Venmo email arrived saying someone had sent money, it updated the balance sheet by itself.
Tracked flight prices from LAX, JFK, ORD, and YYZ for a Rome
In the same Rome-trip demo, Nina Dobrev's agent 'Jack' tracked flight prices from multiple cities (LAX, JFK, ORD, YYZ) totaling $7,472.74 and curated Instagram posts about Rome from people she follows.
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Saved every address the author had sent into a 'Korea Seoul' Google
Key Lee had the AI save every address he'd sent into a 'Korea Seoul' Google Maps collection through a fully automatic browser workflow shown on video.
Booked airport parking for Tesla charging and compared Ace vs Lowe's prices
Sayer PM had the AI book and pay airport parking with Tesla charging, give fall-break flight advice, and compare Ace vs Lowe's prices straight from a receipt photo.
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.
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Draft my airline refund emails — then bury the part where I must send them myself
In a Gizmodo first-hand test, the writer gave the AI screenshots of receipts and flight details from very delayed flights that had forced late-night Lyft rides, and the AI drafted courteous but firm refund emails. Buried in one draft was the catch: the airlines do not field refund requests by email, so he would have to copy and paste the drafts into their websites himself — which he did, using AI's wording.
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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.
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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.
Tracked flight prices from 4 cities ($7,472.74 total) and built a 10-day
Nina Dobrev asked the AI to track flight prices from 4 cities ($7,472.74 total) and build a 10-day Rome itinerary for her girls' trip. Multi-origin price tracking plus a full itinerary — group-trip planning with real numbers.
$7,473
Organize my three-week Japan trip — I pick the places, the AI fits them together
Android Authority's Dhruv Bhutani planned a three-week Japan trip by feeding the AI a Project with his own curated pile — saved posts, videos, restaurants, photography spots and a running decision log — and letting it do the logistics: clustering shops geographically, checking trains, sunrise times and closing days against his anchors. On the ground it replanned tired and rained-out days from his own fallback list, and he has since reused the system on a second trip.
Received two hotel price-drop alerts and rebooked to save $17 and $30
Threads creator John Lam (posting as someone) used an AI hotel price-monitoring setup that sent two alerts when rates dropped on existing reservations, including a Hyatt stay; he rebooked to save $17 on one and $30 on another without manually checking prices. The post includes an AI referral code, so the account leans promotional.
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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.
Scanned the inbox and located 18 free hotel night vouchers, then organized
Travel advisor Marissa Waiters reports the AI scanned her email inbox and located 18 free night vouchers, then organized and filed them for easy access — travel value that was effectively lost in the inbox.
Booked two Korean Air Prestige flights (ICN–SIN KE643/KE648) and a 3-night Ritz-Carlton
VC Ian Park posted a Korean-language the AI chat confirming two Prestige-class Korean Air flights (Seoul Incheon–Singapore, Sept 26–29) and a Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore twin-room booking with free cancellation to Sept 24. After linking the Google Calendar connector, the AI added 11 Singapore itinerary items (flights, courses, jogging, checkout).
My agent called a taxi company to check airport pickup rules for me as a blind passenger
She is blind and traveling with her mom, so her AI called a taxi company to ask about an airport pickup. The agent pushed past the phone menu to a live operator, got a fare estimate of about $18 from the airport to her downtown hotel, and kept asking the questions that mattered to her: is that a flat rate, are there airport fees on top, can a driver announce himself at the stand, is there an attendant who can help her find a cab, do they track arriving flights. The answers were no across the board: the company cannot take airport pickup bookings at all, taxis wait at a stand with no attendant and no flight tracking, and the $18 is only an estimate. She shared the full transcript.
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Filed American Airlines mileage-shopping claims for 2 Best Buy purchases and saved
During the mid-August Massachusetts tax holiday, the reviewer made 2 Best Buy purchases via the American Airlines mileage shopping portal and did not get the miles. He asked the AI to file missing mileage claims, access the receipt data from Gmail, and save a PDF of the Best Buy email receipts to Google Drive.
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