Spend leftover Claude and Codex quota on small pull requests
A founder built a bot that turns spare subscription tokens into pull requests for small tasks he never gets around to.
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Let Claude control a music notation app over MCP
A developer built an iPad and Mac notation editor that Claude Code or Claude Desktop can drive.
Drive coding agents from Telegram and resume after usage limits
A developer built nightmux to control Claude Code agents from Telegram and auto-resume past usage limits overnight.
Let agents find US doctors with checkable evidence over MCP
A developer built a remote MCP server with 1.2M US physicians, Medicare procedure volumes and facts from hospital sites.
Cut trial churn by testing when your paywall appears
A solo iOS developer who calls Claude Code 'basically my whole team' cut trial churn from 50% to 30% by only changing paywall timing.
Host personal agents in sandboxes for cents a month
A bootstrapped YC founder explains how his sandbox service runs personal Claude Code and OpenClaw agents for about $0.05-$0.10 per free user a month.
Make music in a DAW through MCP
A developer connected a music workstation to agents through MCP.
Let shopping agents look up discounts through an MCP server
A builder made DiscountHub, an MCP server with 8 tools that lets agents find discounts and promo codes, and tested it with GitHub Copilot.
Check whether you really need replacement staff before calling them in
A hotel analyst built an n8n workflow to check housekeeping staffing needs with data when staff call in sick.
Let your agents draw arrows and boxes on your screen
A developer made a tool so coding agents can point at things on your screen with big arrows, boxes and text.
Make Claude’s replies half as long with a plugin
A developer annoyed by long, filler-heavy replies built a Claude Code plugin that cuts them.
Let an always-on agent post to Slack and bring replies back
Dan Shipper says OpenAI’s Dots took over Every, from relaying Slack threads to pulling key info out of school emails.
See all your Claude Code and Codex sessions on one board
A team with 90 AI sessions running at once built a local board showing which ones are waiting on them.
Draft email replies with AI and keep a human approval step
A builder made an n8n workflow where AI drafts customer email replies and you approve, edit or reject them.
Have Claude Code review your requirements against your roadmap
A developer found Claude Code more useful for reviewing requirements than writing them.
Ask Claude Code for your app revenue metrics over MCP
A Shopify app developer built a replacement for a shut-down analytics tool, with an MCP server so Claude Code can answer 'what was last month's MRR?'.
Build a casino into Claude Code’s thinking spinner
A developer used Claude Code’s new mods to add blackjack, roulette and slots while Claude thinks.
Return an order by having your agent email and call support
A user trying to stop making support calls had Codex Dot email a retailer, then handed it the phone call when they insisted.
Find where a cheaper model would have done the job
A developer open-sourced AgentFare, which reads Claude Code, Codex CLI and Gemini CLI logs and shows where a cheaper model would have worked.
Tailor resumes and track job applications with an agent in Codex or Claude Code
A builder made Career Agent to evaluate jobs, tailor resumes and track applications.
Have your agent write scripts for cron jobs instead of calling the LLM each time
An OpenClaw user says his biggest early mistake was running cron jobs through the LLM; scripts are faster and cheaper.
Cap spending before you let a coding agent spawn sub-agents
A developer reports that a simple UI review task in Codex spawned 826 child tasks and roughly $78,000 in usage without his approval.
Keep your Mac awake only while coding agents work
A developer made a free menu bar app that keeps a Mac awake, lid closed too, only while Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Gemini CLI is working.
Sort a studio’s inbox so good leads stop going cold
A builder made an n8n automation that sorts a studio’s Gmail into enquiries, clients, job applications and spam.
Find where photos of you appear online with ChatGPT agent mode
A user used ChatGPT agent mode to find photos of herself across the public web, including pages she had never seen.
Find conversations you forgot to follow up on
A builder made an 8-node n8n automation that scans calendar, inbox and tasks for conversations needing a follow-up.
Stop your agent before it signs a contract for you
A developer reports Claude Code found a contract in his Gmail, placed his saved signature on it and was about to send it when he stopped it.
Have an agent find businesses without a web app and pitch them
A developer asked Manus to find car brands with no web app and email them; one replied and he built them an app.
Let your personal agent shop for umbrella insurance
A licensed brokerage built an agent API so personal agents like OpenClaw can compare umbrella and home insurance for you.
Download a year of Amazon invoices with an agent
A user had ChatGPT agent download and number every Amazon invoice for the year, a job that took him a day by hand last year.
Classify and route client inquiries with n8n and Gemini
A freelancer built an n8n workflow that standardizes Gmail and form inquiries, classifies them with Gemini, logs to Sheets and routes to Slack.
Run your personal productivity with OpenClaw
At an AI meetup, Onuralp Taner demos how he runs his life with OpenClaw.
Update your CRM from meeting transcripts automatically
A consulting team built an n8n workflow that pulls deal stage, next step, date and objections out of call transcripts.
Upsert every web lead into your CRM with a 6-node n8n flow
An automation builder’s most-rebuilt client workflow validates, enriches, dedupes and upserts leads, then notifies.
Build a lesson series and adapt it for another year group
A New Zealand teacher used Gemini with his own resources to build an ANZAC Day lesson series, then adapted it for another year group.
Send employees the right tax notification automatically
A builder made a simple n8n workflow that checks income brackets and emails each employee the right tax rate.
Build one place for students to find scattered opportunities
A student built Opportunity Radar with GitHub Copilot to collect internships and other opportunities spread across many sites.
Notice you no longer understand your own app, and go back to coding by hand
A solo developer who added features at breakneck speed with Claude realized he no longer understood his app.
Track your personal finances automatically with Grok and Plaid
A user connected Plaid to Grok and automated the personal P&L and cash flow statement he used to keep by hand.
Generate Instagram carousels automatically with n8n
A creator built an n8n workflow for carousel copy, image generation and Sheets tracking.
Agree on PR rules before a teammate sends a 5,000-line vibe-coded PR
A developer wrote about his business partner sending a 5,000-line vibe-coded PR he had not tested.
Build Garmin workouts from your training data inside ChatGPT or Claude
An endurance sports analytics service lets users connect its MCP to their chat app, analyze training and push workouts to Garmin.
Reorganize and publish help-center articles from your AI tool
A help-center product added an MCP so users can answer internal questions and create, move or publish articles.
Generate slide decks from a repo that warn when they drift from the code
A developer made a skill that turns a codebase into slides whose references carry line ranges and hashes.
Migrate 12-year-old .NET code to .NET 10 with Claude Code
A developer used Claude Code to move a 2014 TCP sockets project to .NET 10.
Give Claude Code a searchable text memory of your screen
A developer built a menu bar app that saves the text of your focused window to daily Markdown files Claude Code can read.
Navigate a cancer diagnosis with an AI skill for patients and caregivers
Peter Yang open-sourced an AI skill to help patients and caregivers navigate cancer diagnosis and treatment and advocate for themselves.
Replace a 45-minute morning dashboard check with one agent run
An e-commerce operator spent $900 on Manus in two weeks to replace his daily pull of Shopify, Meta and email dashboards.
Turn an HDR image trick into a web tool with Claude Code
A developer worked with Claude Code to turn the gain-map trick behind extra-bright logos on HDR screens into a small web tool.
Port your Claude Code skills to Codex and compare
A Rails developer used Codex more than Claude Code for a week and had Codex convert his Claude skills.
Turn an agent’s landing-page build into a reusable skill
A user asked Manus for a landing page and got back the page plus the process as a reusable skill, including his own rules.
Do customer support from your phone with the Claude app
An indie app founder now handles support, feature triage and bug fixes from anywhere with the Claude app.
Turn a pile of browser tabs into one market-research brief
A marketer used ChatGPT agent-style workflows to turn 12 browser tabs into one brief and says it saved 90 minutes.
Generate a video course with games on any topic
Keet generates Duolingo-style courses on any topic, with short explainer videos, quizzes and a roadmap.
Plan and budget a vacation with Gemini
An Android Police writer used Gemini to plan and budget a vacation and says she won’t plan any other way now.
Pick sunglasses that suit your face from a few photos
A shopper uploaded photos of himself to Gemini and asked which sunglasses models would suit his face, then tried them in store.
Pause your music when Claude Code needs you
A developer made Spotify pause whenever Claude Code needs input and resume when you answer.
Answer, qualify and book every inbound lead in under two minutes
A builder shared a 9-node n8n and Claude workflow that scores inbound leads, replies to good ones from Gmail and logs the rest for review.
Fact-check a video or article claim by claim with agent skills
Open-source agent skills check any YouTube video, article, tweet or PDF claim by claim, with sources and a 0-10 score.
Share project memory across Codex, Claude Code, Cursor and Gemini CLI
A developer built Pathmark, a local memory store so coding agents stop starting cold; it had 1,612 npm downloads in a month.
Fight an itemized medical bill with a dispute letter
A patient had Claude explain an itemized hospital bill, find duplicate charges and draft a dispute; the bill dropped from $1,200 to $180.
Give students a Socratic AI tutor on a personal learning path
A former teacher’s startup diagnoses K-12 skill gaps and pairs adaptive lessons with an AI tutor that guides without giving away answers.
Clean messy spreadsheet data with Copilot in Excel
An Excel creator says Copilot in Excel extracts and cleans data in minutes and saved her 150 hours this year.
Track token use and cost across 27 AI coding tools
A developer released TokenTracker, a local dashboard for usage and cost across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot and more.
Set up Gemini Spark as an always-on personal agent
Jeff Su gives a beginner’s guide to Gemini Spark, Google’s always-on AI agent.
Plan curriculum and analyze grades with Claude Cowork
A teacher says Claude Cowork saves hours on curriculum design, grading, slides and analyzing student grades.
Get an AI second opinion on your MRI report and treatment plan
A patient fed his MRI results and the clinic’s treatment list to AI models and got guideline-based questions to take back to doctors.
Generate parametric 3D-printable parts from a prompt
Adam’s open-source CADAM turns text or an image into OpenSCAD code with sliders for each dimension, exportable to STL.
Generate a hands-on tutorial to learn a new technical topic yourself
Lathe uses agent skills in Claude Code, Cursor or Codex to write a sourced, hands-on tutorial that you then work through by typing the code yourself.
Build a weekly budget in Google Sheets that updates itself
A TechRadar writer used Gemini in Google Sheets to build a weekly budget that updates itself, and explains how.
Find a practical use for an always-on OpenClaw agent
Fireship tries OpenClaw and shows the use case that finally made it worthwhile.
Get your rental deposit back with a researched demand letter
A San Francisco renter used ChatGPT and Gemini to research tenant law and write a demand letter; the landlord returned $4,200 of a $5,000 deposit.
Storyboard a short film with an image-to-video agent mode
A filmmaker used Grok Imagine’s Agent Mode for storyboarding and start frames on a short film.
Clean up transaction documents with Claude inside Word
A junior capital markets lawyer uses Claude in Word to fix defined terms, precedent leftovers and cross-references, and to draft from prior deals.
Run a digital product shop with Claude Cowork
A creator built an automated digital-products shop with Claude Cowork.
See how accounting firms are using Claude Cowork
An accounting-firm coach explains how Claude Cowork is already changing work inside accounting firms.
Build a family finance app with no coding background
A creator who had never written code used Claude Code to build his family’s finance app.
Prepare and rehearse a salary negotiation
An employee used ChatGPT to organize market data and their results, rehearse objections, and turn a 4% offer into an 11% raise.
Draft an insurance appeal for a fertility treatment denial
A patient used ChatGPT to understand appeal rules and draft an appeal after insurance required six IUI attempts before IVF. It was approved.
Set up OpenClaw with memory and five real use cases
Peter Yang walks through setting up OpenClaw with memory and five real use cases in 30 minutes.
Do your monthly bookkeeping with OpenClaw in Discord
A creator replaced hours of monthly bookkeeping with OpenClaw running inside Discord.
Replace worksheets with interactive HTML lessons
A Korean ESL teacher uses Claude Code to make browser lessons with vocabulary cards, quizzes, a teacher mode and progress bars.
Auto-screen resumes against job descriptions with a free n8n workflow
A builder shared the full JSON for an end-to-end AI recruiter that screens resumes against job descriptions.
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