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Ten examples if you are new here. Each one is something a person has described in public. The wording is ours, and the link goes to the source.
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Have an agent fix your slow home Wi-Fi
A user asked Claude Code to help raise Wi-Fi speed after two years of frustration. Claude ran speed tests, read signal data from the Mac and guided the user into the router settings, where the user typed the password personally. It found three problems: a crowded channel, WMM switched off and a slower band. Speed rose from about 90 to 292 Mbps on a 300 Mbps plan, but the article calls it a one-off experience, not proof for other networks.
Unsubscribe from the newsletters you never read with Cowork
Ben Patterson at PCWorld was drowning in newsletters and let Claude Cowork tidy his Gmail. His project labels newsletters that can be archived. He first asked for a list without anything being done, then went through them one by one as multiple choice. The agent used the Claude extension for Chrome and wrote a small script that clicked the unsubscribe links. He unsubscribed from 21 newsletters in five minutes. Any that reappear can be marked as spam.
Get help with a layover after a long night flight
A traveller landed in Incheon at 5 am after a night flight from Da Nang, with 3.5 hours until the connection to Osaka. The Grok Bot bot said to go straight to the gate building and found a lounge nearby. From a photo of the sign it caught that free entry only worked with Korean cards. It fixed a booking with the wrong terminal and paid for the pass, 27 dollars instead of 45 at the door.
Make a birthday photo video from old family pictures
A user made a photo video for her brother's 50th birthday with Grok Bot. The bots gathered photos from Dropbox, her Mac, Facebook, email and WhatsApp. A script cut 73 photos out of 25 scanned A4 pages, removed 5 duplicates and flagged 12 for her to check. The final cut had 133 photos at 4 seconds each, about 9 minutes. She reviewed 8 versions, but some photos came out sideways or upside down and needed a separate fix.
Build your own status page instead of paying monthly
A founder was paying 29 dollars a month for a well known status page service used by thousands of companies. He cancelled it and built a simpler version with Cursor in a few minutes. The page only shows whether the service has a problem right now, a history of past incidents and a form to get updates by email. The team posts status and updates in their own panel, and the addresses go into their newsletter tool.
Sort the support inbox and draft replies from templates
A ZDNET writer set up ChatGPT Plus for his wife, who runs a small online shop alone. Once a day ChatGPT reads a rulebook, sorts the day's email and puts reply drafts from ten fixed templates in the drafts folder, while a separate script sends them. Of 1,689 emails in one batch, 25 were from real customers and only 11 needed her. He spent almost four weeks on a ChatGPT plan that did not work, but Claude got it running.
Get a draft of a grant application for your club
A municipality has set up "Søknadsskriveren" (the application writer), a ChatGPT chatbot that drafts an application for funds for a club or association. It asks for relevant information before it moves on, and can also help with ideas for solving a problem. Free use gives ten inputs before a pause of a few hours, and you must create a user. The page does not say how the drafts have been received.
Let a chatbot answer customers first and collect orders
An author built an n8n chatbot for an engraving shop. It answers from a knowledge file, collects order details and hands over to the team when a customer types “team”. In one week it handled 68 chats and replied first in 62 of 65, after about 20 seconds versus 70 minutes for the team. Response time fell from 3 h 7 min to 38 min 54 s, but it is one shop, one week, and the author sells chatbot consulting.
Reach out to past clients during a slow week
A content creator who makes ad videos had a slow week. Instead of waiting for new inquiries, the creator had Claude go through collaborations from roughly the past year, then reached out to past clients to ask whether they had upcoming needs. The whole outreach took around 10 minutes, and a few conversations turned into more than $2,500 in paid work. It is one person's experience, and the post does not show how the messages were written.
Make a commented video of your last chess game
A developer on Hacker News built a setup with Claude Code and Stockfish. He gives it audio notes or text from the game and a vague instruction such as analyse my last lichess game, and gets a commented video of the game. The analysis reflects on what he was thinking during play. It takes about an hour, and the logs show the last game would have cost about 15 dollars at API prices, but the result is not perfect.
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