Use ChatGPT Agent to book an airport hotel
A writer had ChatGPT Agent search Booking.com for airport hotels, rank the options, and stop at checkout for manual payment approval.
ChatGPT Agent
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Let an agent negotiate bills and cancel subscriptions
A Meta employee used Muse to cut bills, handle returns, and cancel a forgotten subscription.
Meta Muse
Use ChatGPT Agent to cancel subscriptions one by one
A writer used ChatGPT Agent to end three streaming memberships while watching each step and approving the last confirmation.
ChatGPT Agent
Draft refund replies from support email
A consultant had an agent sort support messages, check order details, and prepare policy-based refund replies for review.
Claude
Fix Home Assistant lights with OpenClaw
Dan Malone uses OpenClaw over Telegram to diagnose Home Assistant problems and rebuild automations when needed.
OpenClaw
Use dealer quotes to bargain down a car price
A buyer had OpenClaw compare dealer offers and push each seller to beat the lowest one, saving $4,200.
OpenClaw
Automate LinkedIn job hunting and application drafts
Claude Code used a live Chrome session to locate fitting LinkedIn roles, assemble a shortlist, write letters, and submit applications.
Claude Code
Manage inbox, calendar, and errands in chat
OpenClaw lets people control Gmail, Calendar, and routine admin from Telegram or WhatsApp.
OpenClaw
Use Claude Code to maintain Home Assistant automations
Adam relied on Claude Code plus an MCP server to inspect Home Assistant, edit automation YAML, and troubleshoot behavior from traces.
Claude Code
Use agents to run homeschool planning and app building
A mom split homeschool and coding work across five OpenClaw agents on separate Macs, including lesson planning from photos and a kids’ TV app.
OpenClaw
Test a local app in Chrome and fix browser errors
A developer used Claude Code and Claude in Chrome to open a local app, exercise the UI, catch a routing bug, and repair it without manual browser work.
Claude CodeClaude in Chrome
Build a browser racing game from one prompt
A lone agent turned one prompt into a playable kart racer, then kept testing and fixing it while acting as designer, developer, and QA.
Codex
Use a browser assistant to complete booking forms
A reviewer let Comet enter repeated appointment and questionnaire forms, then checked in before final submission.
Perplexity Comet
Tidy a crowded Downloads folder by file type
Claude Cowork organized 2,200 loose files into folders, wrote brief folder summaries, and flagged cleanup candidates after a quick back-and-forth.
Claude Cowork
Automate script-to-YouTube video production in n8n
They built an n8n flow that turns a topic into a narrated video, then prepares it for YouTube review and tracking.
n8nClaude Code
Set a price trigger for an Amazon item
Alexa for Shopping can watch an Amazon product and either alert you or buy it automatically when it reaches your target price.
Alexa+
Use an agent to find and book a lunch spot
A tester used ChatGPT Agent to choose and reserve a Houston business lunch table.
ChatGPT Agent
Turn a short ticket into a landing page
Cursor’s background agent made a pricing page from a brief spec, opened a PR, and let the developer review it before shipping.
Cursor
Brief Slack on tomorrow’s calendar guests
A Zapier agent scans the day’s meetings, looks up outside attendees, and posts a short briefing in Slack each morning.
Zapier Agents
Organize tax records and draft Schedule C
Claude Code assembled tax deductions from multiple records and drafted a Schedule C, but some spending categories still needed a person to check them.
Claude Code
Compare car insurance quotes and flag the savings
A startup founder had Muse look for a cheaper car insurance option and said it cut his annual cost by $3,500.
Meta Muse
Filter leads and launch approved outreach cadences
An agent pulls in likely prospects, ranks them, writes email sequences, and pauses for approval before anything is sent.
Claude
Compare products and stage cart picks on Amazon
A browser agent searched Amazon for coffee makers with built-in grinders, compared five options, and placed two in the cart without checking out.
Perplexity Comet
Build a 3D browser game with an AI agent
A developer used Replit’s agent to try making a 3D browser game entirely in the browser, without installing anything locally.
Replit Agent