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.
Hobbyist use cases
Real things people did with Hobbyist work, sourced and with recipes.
Use cases
Hunt for exoplanet candidates in public telescope data with Claude Code
A Reddit post, widely discussed on HN, describes an amateur using Claude Code to search public data and find what he thinks is an unknown planet.
Turn your phone and a $20 smart plug into a darkroom timer
A film photographer vibe coded an iOS app with Codex that drives his enlarger through a cheap smart plug, replacing a $300+ dedicated timer.
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.
Generate LEGO models from a prompt
A hobbyist spent months getting ChatGPT and Claude to write LDraw, the instruction language for LEGO CAD models, and open-sourced the tooling.
Learn retro game development with Claude Code
A developer used Claude Code to learn SNES-style game development.
Build a family shopping list on an e-ink fridge magnet
A parent had Claude Code write all the firmware for an e-ink touchscreen shopping list that syncs with a phone web app.
Get a narrated video breakdown of your own chess games
A chess player built Claude Code skills that combine Stockfish with his voice notes to produce a commented video of his last online game.
Build an interactive physics explorer with your agent
A builder made a free, open-source gravity, orbits and time-dilation explorer with his OpenClaw agent and GPT-6 Astra.
Make printable produce-season posters for your farmers’ market
A hobbyist built Vertumnus, customizable posters of when each produce variety is in season, in a single 731-prompt Claude session.
Rebuild a classic sim game with a new twist using Claude
A developer who has been rebuilding old games with Claude made a SimTower-like game whose economy runs on democratic socialism.
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