Use Devin to build and ship a small app
They used Devin to turn an empty repo into a deployed City Explorer app in about 90 minutes.
Devin
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Have Devin click through and verify its own app work
Use Devin to build or run an app, then test it by navigating the interface itself and marking what passes.
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Run coding agents in long autonomous cycles
Use a planner-worker loop with periodic review to keep coding agents moving on a large repository task.
Cursor
Automate a self-hosted stack on your own hardware
Jordan Fulghum let Claude Code configure and run several home services on a Beelink mini PC.
Claude Code
Run Microsoft Office on Linux with Wine
Use Wine and compatibility shims to get Microsoft 365 installing and opening on Linux without a virtual machine.
Claude Code
Flag coding conflicts before agents edit
They set up a local layer that makes coding agents announce planned changes so overlapping architecture work gets caught early.
Claude CodeCodexCursor
Draft dashboards and migrations with Devin
A SaaS team uses Devin to produce first-pass internal dashboards and data migrations, then checks the result by hand.
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Use Devin to turn tasks into ready-to-review PRs
Devin can take product work, implement it, and hand back a pull request for human review.
Devin
Use Devin for changelogs and issue-driven doc fixes
Neon’s docs team uses Devin for a weekly changelog and for repetitive docs updates tied to GitHub issues.
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Use Scout to run repo checks and draft PRs
Have Microsoft Scout run build, test, lint, and GitHub CLI tasks from a workspace folder, with approval before any write or network action.
Microsoft Scout
Use Scout to review a conflict and prepare a push
Microsoft Scout can inspect Git conflict markers, compare both versions, and prepare a merge or push flow for your approval.
Microsoft Scout
Rewrite a README after a codebase rearchitecture
A developer had Devin scan a reworked repository and draft a new README with setup and API details in a pull request.
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Let an agent turn browser edits into code
A designer changed a local site in the browser while a coding agent wrote the matching CSS updates into the codebase.
Claude Code
Set up Claude Code to manage Tangled issues
They built a Tangled MCP server so Claude Code could check branches and handle issues for repos in owner/repo form.
Claude Code
Use Manus for small coding builds and bug fixes
A reviewer put Manus through eight programming chores and found it dependable overall, with a few weak spots in validation and proof of execution.
Manus
Build a local AI setup and personal knowledge graph
They had Hermes Agent assemble a local AI stack and connect Gbrain for chat-based knowledge-graph lookups.
Hermes Agent
Use Devin for small pull requests
A team handed Devin narrow fixes in their repo, then reviewed the tests and pull requests it produced.
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Build and verify a simple endpoint app
Devin created a small Node.js Express service, tested its routes, and added error handling in about 4 minutes.
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Have Devin add a third-party token endpoint in your repo
A developer had Devin build a backend token endpoint from docs, then cleaned up the pull request through a few review cycles.
Devin
Triage upgrades and move major ones in stages
Kent C. Dodds used Cursor to organize site dependency work, then carried out a Remix v2 to React Router v7 migration and related updates.
Cursor
Turn ticketed work into PRs and repair failing checks
Cognition used Devin to turn Slack and Linear requests into pull requests, then keep fixing review and CI issues until checks passed.
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Use Devin to build, debug, and ship app setup work
Devin handled app scaffolding, repo debugging, and deployment setup in demos and early user reports.
Devin
Use Replit Agent to build a searchable company map
A software engineer had Replit Agent turn Wefunder listings into a searchable Leaflet map, then fixed bad API results by loading the data themselves.
Replit Agent
Build a scraper app and deploy it
A developer used Replit Agent to make a Hacker News scraper with storage, an API, and a front end, then deployed it.
Replit Agent