Life Admin & Home
Let Claude drive a Mac to play chess and make notes
A writer gave Claude computer use control of his Mac to play chess and create notes; simple tasks worked, complex ones failed, and usage quota nearly ran out.
Claude
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Life Admin & Home
Control a PC and launch World of Warcraft from your phone
A writer had Claude Code run desktop tasks like Calculator to Notepad and, via Dispatch from his phone, launch Battle.net and log into a World of Warcraft character.
Claude Code · Claude Cowork
Research & Knowledge
Have Claude collect names from a Wikipedia page into a file
The poster tried Claude Computer Use to open Firefox, search Wikipedia, find all names on a page and save them to a text file.
Claude computer use
Sales, Marketing & Support
Draft Reddit answers to reach a karma goal
The poster ran Claude Code as an agent to help write Reddit answers, and one answer did most of the work toward their karma goal.
Claude Code
Software & DevOps
Draft pull request reviews for you to edit and send
The poster built a review inbox where Claude Code drafts reviews for piled-up PRs and the user can discuss, rewrite or delete findings before sending.
Claude Code
Life Admin & Home
Diagnose a check engine light by ordering an OBD2 scanner
An OpenClaw agent told about a check engine light ordered an OBD2 scanner from Amazon, read the results, identified a sensor issue and cleared the light.
OpenClaw
Sales, Marketing & Support
Build and launch a landing page with a Google Ads campaign
OpenClaw built and shipped a live landing page, wired lead capture with duplicate protection, set up a geo-targeted Google Ads campaign and a consent-mode tag.
OpenClaw
Software & DevOps
Migrate WordPress posts to MDX
Claude Code pulled posts from the WordPress REST API and converted them to MDX with frontmatter, migrating 367 posts and 5 pages in one session.
Claude Code
Research & Knowledge
Research Reddit customer pain points with a skill
The author replaced a Reddit research agent with a Codex skill that finds pain points, verifies communities, collects evidence, clusters problems, and analyzes commercial signals.
Codex
Software & DevOps
Port Claude Code skills to Codex
The author moved 201 Claude Code skills to Codex in an afternoon using a skill inside Claude Code, and reports what transferred and what broke.
Claude Code · Codex
Work & Operations
Turn Slack and call transcripts into Claude Code tasks
The poster wants a persistent Claude agent that watches Slack and call transcripts, spots tasks, and drafts the Claude Code prompts, removing them from the loop.
Claude · Claude Code
Work & Operations
Run nightly briefing pipelines with scheduled tasks
The author uses Claude Code cloud scheduled tasks for nightly pipelines that scan work, generate retrospectives, and assemble morning briefings.
Claude Code
Work & Operations
Have Claude implement most of a day job's work
The poster gives Claude work tasks and has it implement most of the functionality, though the last 10% still takes the most time.
Claude
Work & Operations
Automate a day job as an automation engineer
The poster has Claude act as an automation engineer, doing design and research work and finding related docs and indexes for their job.
Claude
Life Admin & Home
Use Codex for non-coding chores
Commenters use Codex for Pi-hole upgrades, market research, wiki building, file search, PowerPoint edits, light Excel work, scraping, and data entry.
Codex
Life Admin & Home
Fill out insurance paperwork from hospital records
Felix Rieseberg gave Claude Cowork a folder of hospital PDFs and the insurance website so it filled out the paperwork while he fed his newborn.
Claude Cowork
Work & Operations
Set tax and contract reminders and review contracts
Karina Chow had Claude Cowork set email reminders for quarterly tax deadlines, contract end dates, and state law changes, and help with contract review and market rate analysis.
Claude Cowork
Shopping & Errands
Customize and order a matcha drink for an event
Grace Ling connected API keys to Claude Cowork, which customized and ordered a coconut cloud matcha drink for an event via the Monid agent integration.
Claude Cowork