Shopping & Errands
Buy headphones during a sale with an AI agent
An AI agent bought headphones for the poster; they also use a browser extension for sale purchases and price-drop alerts.
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Agents people built themselves, lesser-known products, and ones the author didn't name.
Agents people built themselves, lesser-known products, and ones the author didn't name.
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Work & Operations
Chase unpaid invoices and paperwork by email for small firms
An agent watches for unpaid invoices and paperwork, emails people until they say yes, no, or pay, and escalates decisions to the owner.
Other or custom
Travel & Bookings
Book a kid's dental checkup by phone agent
The poster tested eight AI phone-call agents on calling a dentist to book a checkup within constraints like weekdays only and after 3pm.
Other or custom
Work & Operations
Screen candidates and summarize resumes with AI
Commenters describe AI used to summarize resumes, mass-screen candidates, skip boolean queries, and an agent that screens candidates anytime.
Other or custom
Work & Operations
Contact job candidates for initial HR screening
A job seeker reports an AI agent calling and emailing them for a first HR screening.
Other or custom
Work & Operations
Run dental office queries, scheduling and reminders with a chatbot
An AI chatbot deployed on a website and WhatsApp answers queries, schedules appointments, and sends reminders for a dental office.
Other or custom
Research & Knowledge
Run a systematic literature review from one prompt
SciSpace's agent generates PICO questions, searches and screens papers, downloads PDFs, extracts data and outputs the full review with a PRISMA diagram.
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Work & Operations
Schedule meetings by email and update the calendar
The poster built an agent that reads emails, checks calendar availability, replies with a meeting time and adds it to the calendar.
Other or custom
Work & Operations
Find discounted bank-owned homes and list them as midterm rentals
MidtermMate agent finds discounted bank-owned homes in a region, estimates local rents, and helps list them as midterm rentals, shown in a video demo.
Other or custom
Sales, Marketing & Support
Generate structured company research reports
Dharmesh's Company Research agent pulls firmographics, executives, traffic, search marketing data and G2 reviews into a structured report on any company.
Other or custom
Life Admin & Home
Organize a Friday night with friends
The Instinct agent coordinated with friends' agents, picked food, drinks and a movie, synced timing, placed the order and added it to the calendar.
Other or custom
Work & Operations
Reconcile industry files and chase clarifications with agents
An agent workflow ingests a complex industry file, loads it into a database, spawns agents to check it against work in flight, and contacts people to resolve bad data.
Other or custom
Money, Bills & Benefits
Fight a mattress warranty claim by email
A user's agent emailed back and forth with the mattress company's agent, citing laws and pushing aggressively, to resolve a warranty claim.
Other or custom
Travel & Bookings
Rebook a work flight to save money
Arden texted a user that rebooking his Zurich flight would save $7,750; after he approved, it changed the flight and the refund hit his corporate card.
Other or custom
Shopping & Errands
Launch and run an online store with AI agents
The author used an AI store builder to launch a retail shop taking real payments in one sitting, with five agents watching orders, stock and customers.
Other or custom
Work & Operations
Source and screen candidates with voice agents
An unnamed staffing firm used voice AI agents to contact and screen candidates, reportedly reaching 2,000 in a week; weak, vendor-adjacent account.
Other or custom
Life Admin & Home
Add handwritten appointments to calendar and file PDFs
A commenter describes a self-built agent that OCRs a photo of a handwritten appointment into their calendar, searches the web, and files an emailed PDF into paperless.
Other or custom
Software & DevOps
Let a custom agent change its own repository
Author's custom-built agent made its first code change to its own repository.
Other or custom