Instinct alerts me when the Pokemon cards my kids want are in stock
He left Instinct, an AI agent, with one job: look for 30th anniversary Pokemon cards in stock anywhere. It sits in the background and alerts him to places that have stock.
A random mix from the whole library. Shuffle for a new set.
Work
Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,668 ideasEvery night my bots turn the fixes people make into new rules
When a person fixes something one of his bots wrote, the bot writes down what it said and what the person changed it to. A nightly task reads those changes and writes the rule it thinks they point to, and in a year the bots have picked up more than 40 rules this way.
His property tool's first version came from a 3 sentence prompt and a 31 hour agent run
The first version of his Groundhog property tool was built from a three sentence prompt. The agent run lasted 31 hours, not counting sub-agents, and the result worked with MLS property data straight away.
A small German studio runs its day to day work through AI
Since early September a small AI studio in Germany runs its daily work through AI: one rules file routes each request to four specialist agents for numbers, writing, research and finance, agents only ever draft emails and offers for a human to send, and the finance agent can read the bank account while a hook blocks every other tool on that connector. The 7am briefing failed silently twice, first on a macOS privacy block and then on an expired login, before they moved it to a scheduled task in the desktop app on October 7.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI runs his dev machine end to end: commits, deploys, checks the smoke tests
Gave the AI sudo on his dev machine: it commits, pushes, checks pre-push test results, deploys as another user, checks smoke tests, and adjusts the Cloudflare pipeline and environment variables.
The AI found out my five new subscribers were bots
Five new newsletter subscribers looked like direct traffic, as if five people had typed his URL by hand. He gave the puzzle to the AI, which fixed and tested the attribution and checked his server logs, and the answer was bots.
Realtor's the AI watches his own MLS login for price drops every morning
Realtor Dave Hutchinson opens the AI Chrome extension inside his logged-in MLS, gives it one narrow standing instruction (his example: condos under $500,000 in his farm area with a price drop in the last three days), then converts the result into a scheduled task that reruns every morning. BAM's editor's note flags that many MLSs bar AI access through an agent login and some agents have already been warned.
An LLM wrote data library bindings for his language, perfectly sufficient first try
Asked an LLM to write Apache Arrow bindings for Lean; it knocked out perfectly sufficient bindings.
Log links to all my social posts in my daily note
Mete Ünal asked his Dot to log links to all his social posts in his daily note in Craft. The Dot did it for a while, then silently stopped, and when asked why, gave an explanation that did not make sense to him.
This one went wrong. See what happened before you try it.
Make my reels in my style in ten minutes — after an hour of failure in plain chat
Creator Charlene Bituin first gave the AI one of her 30-second videos in a normal chat and let it work for an hour: wrong timing, wrong text, nothing like what she had in mind. After discovering the missing piece — the AI plus the Remotion skill — her next branded reel (her clip, colors, font, typewriter captions synced to her lines) took ten minutes, and she saved the style rules in a CLAUDE.md so every later video follows them automatically.
Every idea is a real post from someone who tried it, summarized in our words, with a link to the original. App names are swapped for plain words.