Hand Claude Code a website and an ad budget to run on its own
A web developer gave Claude Code a baseline site, ad accounts with a budget, and scraping tools, and lets it make marketing decisions every four hours.
Advanced AI agent projects
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Use cases
Build an agent that files refunds and insurance claims for you
A hackathon team built Recourse, which organizes evidence, prepares paperwork and calls customer support for you.
Run a fleet of coding agents like a teaching hospital
Two Cockroach Labs engineers turned GitHub issues into 'patients' handled by agent roles (triage nurse, fellow, reviewing attending, discharge nurse) and shipped production code for five months.
Decompile a classic shooter with a swarm of coding agents
Over three months, a developer and community helpers had up to 16 Claude Code and Codex agents rebuild an old first-person shooter as readable C++ that runs without noticeable bugs.
Put an AI agent on a Nokia 110 feature phone
A developer reverse-engineered a 48 MB RAM Nokia 110 to run an AI agent and automate a few actions.
Rebuild SimCity 2000 as a low-poly web game with 27 subagents
A developer had Opus 5.5 decompile SimCity 2000 with Ghidra and port it function by function to TypeScript and WebGL over a few days.
Screen new magnetic materials for computer memory with an agent team
A researcher used a team of Claude Opus agents to run physics simulations and surface two candidate magnets for spin-based memory, then published every calculation.
Make explainer videos for any article on the fly
Scrimba plugged an LLM into its interactive video format and built HN.watch, which generates explainer videos for HN posts.
Make Rust libraries faster by looping agents against benchmarks
A data scientist got agents to write Rust ML and utility crates that beat established libraries on speed by giving them benchmark targets and strict anti-cheating rules.
Run your business on a self-hosted company OS of Claude Code and Codex agents
A founder built, and runs his business on, a self-hosted company OS where Claude Code and Codex agents work in departments.
Scrape every UK council planning portal with Claude and monitor it over MCP
A developer built a planning-applications scraper for every UK local planning authority with Claude, then added an MCP view of scraper health.
Give customer-facing voice agents one MCP server for scheduling and order status
A company points any voice agent platform at its own MCP server so agents can book appointments and check orders for customers.
Sync your email into SQLite so agents can search it in milliseconds
A developer syncs his Microsoft mail into a local SQLite database exposed read-only to his agent.
Go from alert to fix with MCPs for logs, metrics, incidents and code
An SRE team gave its LLM MCPs for Loki, Prometheus, Grafana, Incident.io, GitHub and server inventory.
Investigate production incidents with a purpose-built SRE agent
A SaaS SRE team that struggled with general agents in incident response built its own Rust agent.
Let your agent buy a domain, behind a human approval step
A builder’s OpenClaw agent bought a domain and started building the product; he approved the purchase through an approval tool he built.
Build an agent that knows everything about your company
Founders who struggled to set up a Hermes agent with full company context turned that into Almanac.
Generate a whole theme park from one prompt
An engineer built an agent that designs Rollercoaster Tycoon-style parks with worlds, paths and rides.
Run outbound sales from one interface with 21 MCP connections
An agency that runs outbound for 100+ AI companies says most of its delivery now runs through 21 MCP connections.
Replace a support chatbot with a voice agent that answers calls
An agency built a client an AI voice agent instead of the chatbot they asked for.
Sell an AI support agent to Shopify stores
A founder built an AI support agent for Shopify stores and got a first customer on a $99/month plan.
Direct a 10-minute AI movie with Claude Code as the director
A creator built a Claude Code pipeline that glues video, image and voice models together to make 10-minute films.
Sell a LinkedIn prospecting AI agent as a SaaS product
A founder built Gojiberry, a SaaS around a LinkedIn AI agent, and per a podcast host grew it from $50K to $300K MRR.
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