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.
Founder use cases
Real things people did with Founder work, sourced and with recipes.
Use cases
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.
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.
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?'.
Hook your agent to support tickets and product analytics to fix bugs
A founder connected an agent to customer support and the PostHog MCP so it keeps fixing bugs and feature requests.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Launch a consumer AI app to an audience you already have
A creator with millions of followers vibe coded an MVP in two days and, per Starter Story, hit $340K MRR two months after launch.
Debug user issues in minutes with Claude, observability and read-only DB access
A developer connects Claude to dash0, Linear and a read-only production database, and opened an MCP over their own GraphQL API.
Ship an MCP with a physical card deck so facilitators can plan workshops
A maker of printed facilitation cards offers an MCP server so buyers can plan workshops with the deck in Claude Desktop.
Let CRM customers combine your data with other MCPs in Claude or Copilot
A niche CRM vendor’s MCP lets non-technical users connect platform data to Claude or Copilot.
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.
Build a personal CFO dashboard that catches money leaks
A builder used Claude Code to build a financial command center and says it saved him over $500 last month.
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.
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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