Collect WhatsApp leads and add them to Sheets
An n8n agent chats with WhatsApp leads, gathers contact details, and records them in Google Sheets.
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Set up a chat agent for clinic questions
An n8n workflow used Gemini and Google Sheets to reply to patient chat enquiries with context kept across messages.
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Check wearables data before changing meals
A commenter used Claude to review tracked health details and meal logs, then updated one repeat eating day after spotting a link to medication response.
Claude
Route repair leads automatically in n8n
An n8n flow sorted repair inquiries, stored them in Airtable, and answered customers right away while sending doubtful cases to a person.
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Automate trip reminders and return messages
An n8n flow checks a trip sheet each day and sends the right WhatsApp message before departure or after return.
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Use n8n to handle WhatsApp customer chats
An n8n agent can read WhatsApp inquiries, look up information, check availability, and record and answer messages.
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Build a personal heart-health tracker with Claude
A 73-year-old used Claude to turn a spreadsheet into a phone-ready app for logging health readings and daily habits after a hospital stay.
Claude
Let wearable data guide workouts and recovery
One user had Claude turn Garmin history and health signals into a daily training plan shown on a phone-friendly webpage.
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Use Claude Cowork to log meals and health stats
A Claude Cowork skill can turn spoken meals into spreadsheet entries with nutrition totals and medical metrics.
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Use agents to brief calls and plan YouTube ideas
She used Lindy to research discovery meetings and brainstorm YouTube content, while a more complex content process stayed in Make.
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Set up Lindy to summarize meetings and draft ticket replies
A reviewer used Lindy to turn meeting notes, support tickets, and routine follow-ups into simple automations.
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Post World Cup finals to a Signal group
A Claude Code agent monitored ESPN for finished World Cup games and relayed each final score to a three-person Signal chat with a validation step first.
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Make a daily audio briefing from your newsletters
They had an agent read selected AI newsletters overnight and turn the highlights into a podcast episode ready for the morning.
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Ask Grok Bot to handle a child-seat booking change
Grok Bot managed a rental-car phone call, got through the menu, and secured an infant seat update with email confirmation.
Grok Bot
Turn property records into a maintenance plan
Have an agent sort property paperwork, surface upkeep items, and draft vendor notes for a person to approve.
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Log new YouTube uploads in a Google Doc each morning
A Make workflow checks a channel’s latest upload at 9 AM, summarizes its title and description with Hugging Face, and saves the summary in Google Docs.
Make
Plan meals and household tasks for the week
They used an agent to assemble weekly dinners, errands, and daily briefs around their family calendar and preferences.
Custom agent
Scan my inbox and calendar for repeats and offer to handle them
An app built on Gmail and Calendar looks for recurring tasks, then asks whether to prep meetings, emails, or bills.
Custom agent
Automate daily videos and form follow-ups in Make
A CTO used Make with Gemini to draft daily YouTube content, while another user routed Google Form leads into monday.com with automatic follow-ups.
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Restore an old PC game on a modern machine
Claude Code revived a 1997 DirectX game, unpacked much of its code, and later used it to generate illustrated walkthroughs on its own.
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Assign PRs and bug fixes across Cursor sub-agents
A Cursor coordinator tracked incoming pull requests and live bugs, sent sub-agents after each issue, and kept the user updated along the way.
Cursor
Review a deposit holdback for possible legal mistakes
A renter had ChatGPT and Gemini inspect a security-deposit fight, and the demand letter they generated helped recover $4,200.
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Let Cursor draft a project app in a 24-hour loop
A developer let Cursor work for a full day on a project tracker, and it finished with a usable but unfinished result.
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Make a typing app for language study
Using Replit Agent, a buildathon participant brought LingoType, a multilingual typing app, from idea to finished product.
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