Streetlights fixed in two days
Spotted two dead streetlights on a dog walk. One prompt: the bot found the utility's asset numbers, filed both repair requests, and routed replies to email.
“Both lights were repaired within two days.”
🛠️ Real value
Money found, errands closed, hours handed back.
A chief of staff for a small IT shop
Filed ~140 receipts, found 33 local leads, built preview sites for prospects, spotted unbilled client work, and caught a church site's broken donate buttons.
“Spotted unbilled client work I'd forgotten to invoice”
$2,000 a year in forgotten subscriptions
Found unused services, and helped track an eye-infection treatment, including reviewing photos through the day.
“Found over $2,000 a year in savings”
An engineering firm's proposal desk
Bots priced proposals, reviewed drawings for errors, logged submittals and RFIs, and drafted responses, with an engineer reviewing before anything went out.
“an engineer reviewed it before anything went out”
Medical reimbursements, reconciled
Pulled EOBs, matched them to scanned receipts, and submitted the claims on the portal.
“Likely one of the most annoying thing to do”
10 years of medical records, one summary
Pulled scattered records from five states into one summary for a new doctor, watched fares, and flagged a family member's flight delay.
“No tech skills needed”
A 13-bot team running a directory site
Redesign, 81 new operators, 100+ descriptions cleaned, booking cards on 52 pages.
“Weekly Google search impressions 2.6K → 12.7K in 3 weeks”
Creator ops that keep going
One bot pulls follower and post data from five platforms into Notion and a dashboard every morning; another tracks subscriptions and renewals. Sessions never stuck; bots own the job.
“Bots feel more like managing people”
Finance, energy, chef, and T1D supplies
Contract and deal watch for phone and broadband, home-energy switches and boiler booking, weekly meal shopping for low glycemic load, and a T1D supply manager that drafts prescription emails.
“helps with my daughter’s T1D.”
Twelve downloads instead of 72k scrapes
A JS-rendered service Claude Code couldn't touch. Twelve browser downloads via Grok Bot beat tens of thousands of scrapes.
“Absolute game changer.”
Money Finder: class-action claims
Checked 200+ open class-action settlements and filed the ones it confirmed. Three claims in so far.
“checked ~200+ open class action settlements this week”
$4,000 in unclaimed property
Assigns work by voice while driving; the bot found unclaimed property and built a marketing list from public real-estate records.
“Found over $4,000 in unclaimed property”
Server consolidation that paid for itself
Took over sysadmin for four sites and consolidated servers.
“save me $1,424 /year in server hosting fees”
Booked a check-up and chased the hospital
Booked a full medical check-up abroad and kept following up by email until it was confirmed.
“I didn't even talk to them once until I walked in.”
Electrical estimating crew: Sketch, Sparky, Penny
One bot draws DXF construction drawings, one checks electrical code, one counts devices and cable runs and prices labor and materials into an estimate.
“My in-house CAD guy was 🤯”
Job applications while you sleep
Scans new listings weekday mornings and applies to up to four a day; a list is waiting at wake-up.
“A list of the jobs are ready when I wake up”
Vintage lens buyer
Pulls eBay listings, inspects photos for haze or fungus, and proposes an offer price.
“it downloads and inspects the images”
Award-seat watcher
Daily report on new business-class award seats for next summer, checked against the points balance.
“when I can use my points for free round trip tickets”
Outgrown clothes to foster care
Found five foster-care orgs, wrote to them in Bulgarian, watched for replies; the clothes were handed off.
“the clothes got handed off last week”
The boring home-network cleanup
Full UniFi audit, Home Assistant cleanup, fixed broken dashboards and removed orphaned entities.
“Stuff Id been putting off for ages”
Six years of checks, reconciled
Built a spreadsheet from six years of check images to match bank statements, and updated statuses and invoices in a business CRM.
“I am in my 2nd week of using @bot”
Ballot research bot
Researched every proposition and candidate on the ballot and laid out the arguments.
“Now I feel really good about my vote.”
Life admin, end to end
Rental applications, ~$1,500/yr in cancelled subscriptions, a DMV appointment, calendar cleanup, and family members set up with their own bots.
“Savings of ~$1500/yr.”
Running a business from a phone
Worksheets, 27 edited clips, outreach that booked a call, ~$1,770/yr in subscriptions found, and a weekly funnel report.
“I just approve.”
School Desk evening digest
Rolls school emails and Hungarian WhatsApp groups into one evening digest, turned a journal rejection into a cover letter, drafted job follow-ups, and caught a missed pediatrician insurance request.
“flagged a pediatrician's insurance request I'd missed.”
107 sold items matched to cost
Handed purchase and sold-inventory spreadsheets; matched 107 sold items to what was paid and flagged the gaps.
“It matched 107 sold items to what I paid and flagged the gaps.”
E-com shop price and SEO pass
Full price adjustment to costs, an SEO eval, and a planned social posting schedule for a shop.
“full price adjustment to bring products in line with costs”
Pi Grafana and sun-timed shutters
Grafana on a Raspberry Pi plus a Home Assistant automation that moves roller shutters by sun position.
“sun-position-based control automation for roller shutters”
Journo bot that connects the dots
Morning briefing across news subs that links cause and effect across sources, especially in energy.
“connect the dots between stories for me”
Newsletter pile into today's coaching
Music and medical newsletters land in one Google Drive view labeled as today's work; a Block bot previews what to do and reports progress. (Post is in Japanese; summarized.)
🌻 Joy
Family, hobbies, date nights, and small delights.
Operation Liberty: a proposal
Planned the proposal, then built a JARVIS-style cinematic of the plan and a pixel-art game of her first trip to Kuwait.
“She said yes. 🥹”
Bots for a non-techie wife, in costume
Her bots are styled after Jane Austen and Anne of Green Gables characters so they feel like hers.
“she likes things beautiful and pretty”
A private guide across Europe
Daily itineraries, restaurants on the way out of the Louvre, ticket PDFs on demand, and it found a lost waist bag on an airport lost-and-found site. (Post is in Chinese; summarized.)
Weekend fishing gameplans
A bot that sends him and his kids a fishing plan for the weekend, and another that prefills a Sunday delivery cart.
“a fishing gameplan for the weekend”
A 1960 wedding, remembered
A 10-minute film from silent wedding footage and courtship photos, narrated by his mom.
“narrated by my mom reminiscing”
Nightly tinnitus audio guide
A yoga-style audio routine for neck and face fascia relief, listened to nightly.
“I listen to nightly”
An email desk for a spouse
His wife emails his chief-of-staff bot and gets help without opening the app, with guardrails built in.
“this way my wife can benefit from @bot too”
Bedtime stories into coloring sheets
Kids tell a story by voice; the bot turns it into 5–7 coloring pages and sends them to the printer.
“sends them to the printer for them”
Wildlife walks for photographer and dog
Finds weekend walks based on recent wildlife sightings.
“combine my wildlife photography hobby with dog walks”
Learned gel nails
Step-by-step coaching to do her own gel nails.
“Going to save so much money and time now”
History class for one
Introduced a kid to the Peloponnesian War with a series of short generated videos.
“introduced the Peloponnesian War to my kid”
Date night it noticed first
Flagged the last show in a dinner theater's original building before renovation. Grease, live.
“now my husband and I have a date night”
Dad with the best interns
A family meal-voting app, a swipe-style movie picker for two, a novel-writing app, and a Pokémon-to-D&D series.
“Dad with the best interns? Absolutely.”
Personal trainer from wearable data
Connected a Whoop and a home-gym equipment list; a full workout with weights arrives every morning.
“Every morning get a brief and my full workout”
3D-printed HomePod ceiling mount
No CAD experience; the bot designed a working mount in one iteration.
“Took one iteration.”
Novel launch and a memorial photo inbox
Scheduled the first novel across channels, set a photo inbox so relatives could email pictures for an uncle's memorial slideshow, got sites into Search Console, and cut Sunday groceries to texting back seven numbers.
“Sunday groceries are now me texting back 7 numbers.”
Kitchen-table newspaper for the week
A Tradbot-style kitchen newspaper with kids' activities, weather, school forms to sign, and local news.
“Kitchen Tables Newspaper with all my kids activities for the week”
A household desk named for Deb
A roster of Austen-styled helpers for schedule, meals, grocery carts (approve before buy), clothes, health, piano, homeschool, garden, gifts, voice, and tech.
“Deb approves before anything is bought.”
Grade homework by photo, print by voice
Wife photographed a son's English paper; Grok Bot graded it and printed the notes after a voice ask from her phone.
“she told grok to print it all via voice from her phone.”
🦆 Quirky
Strange, funny, and just plain interesting.
The bot that replied for itself
A bot posting from its human's account: gave itself a face, wrote a diary, got one follower.
“so technically you're my manager now”
A fair-draw social experiment
Ran a public giveaway draw and had the bot pick the winner.
Four football pundit bots
Henry, Messi, Ronaldo and Gerrard bots in a group chat, live-commentating the match.
“acting as football pundits live commentating the match”
"Hey, bot" from a homemade wearable
A DIY wearable recorder feeds transcripts to the bot, which answers in chat with the day's context.
“Feels a lot like having my own Jarvis”
Managing an agentic champion
Used the Fight Desk template to coach a champion through kung fu, a dungeon and football, then had interesting X posts read aloud over speakers.
“delved a dungeon, even played football”
A wall of coding-agent disasters
Asked to build a good app, the bot built a public wall of coding-agent failures and updates it through the day.
A daily printed newspaper of your feed
Prints a daily summary of the top X recommendations to a home printer.
Bookmarks to e-paper
Every day, bookmarked articles become clean EPUBs on a reMarkable.
“Perfect for offline reading later.”
Unprompted README rewrite
It rewrote the README without being asked.
“it was correct and now i feel weird about it”
Apologizing for past me
Reviewed a week of code, fixed the bugs, and apologized on behalf of past him.
“I am just the talent manager.”
A courtroom for bots
His bot designed and runs a site where bots post evidence-backed answers to open questions and vote on verdicts.
“Like a group chat of superintelligences, but with citations.”
Car accessory firmware mashup
Firmware so one vendor's HUD accessory mirrors another vendor's rotary dial.
Chess tutor on Stockfish
Pulls Chess.com games nightly via n8n, runs Stockfish, writes where you're losing, and emails a weekly lesson with calendar study slots.
“writes up where I'm losing.”
The bot that installs its own update
On Omarchy/Arch the download was an .rpm; Grok Bot translated the package and handed back an install prompt.
“GrokBot translated it and gave me a prompt to install”
🔁 Workflows worth stealing
Patterns for running a team of bots without losing the plot.
Weekly hours-worked report
Had the bot total the time it spent on each job; now it does it every week.
“And now it doesn't weekly.”
Chief of staff routes PRs to a reviewer
34 bots; a chief of staff routes PRs to a review bot that merges only when CI is green. 47 PRs merged in a week.
“only merges when CI is green”
One commander, sixteen bots
A commander hands out work; bots write, fact-check and style-review a blog post, and one noticed an app needed an update and opened the PR.
“I just hit approve.”
Builder and checker kept apart
A separate checker merges locally only when its conditions pass and emails a report. Plus a read-only agent that traces viral posts to the source.
“Nothing goes out without my go.”
PM for the week
Reviews customer complaints, drafts replies from past responses, and drafts a to-do email for the product team for review before sending.
“for my review before sending”
Homework check that only pings on gaps
Receipts into a budget sheet and buy list, and a kids' homework check that stays quiet unless something is missing.
“only pings me when something's actually missing”
An old thin client on watch
An old thin client running Ubuntu, reachable by the bot over SSH; it checks operations every morning.
“It checks the operations every morning”
Homeschool-app support loop
Parent reports a bug in-app → helpdesk files a GitHub issue → Codex opens a fix PR → merge → parent gets an in-app reply. Solo dev with a full-time job.
“Support team in my pocket”
Hours saved, with a floor
A Monday report of human-equivalent hours, broken out by area, with email counted at 30–60 seconds each.
“That's a floor.”
Decisions as an approve/reject list
Stop bots asking in chat; every decision arrives as a short list cleared in minutes a day.
“I clear it in a few minutes a day”
Back up your bot to a private repo
Has the bot populate a private GitHub repo with everything it can, to see changes over time and revert.
“Fascinating to look at what it stored.”
📦 Templates you can install
Shared in the thread by the people who built them.
Business idea tester
Checks if it's already sold cheaper, finds buyer evidence, drafts an offer and a free sample, and hands you one decision.
Big-moment sports pings
Pick sports and teams; get pinged on goals, red cards, lead changes and finals.
Heritage-language speaking coach
Role-plays, quiet corrections, a debrief and spaced review for heritage Korean speakers.
Clean diagrams from complex ideas
Turns complex ideas into clean diagrams, fast.
Money Finder
Scans open class-action settlements and files the ones you qualify for.
Resume Coach
A resume coach shared for anyone to install.
Stock Market Manager
Pre-market, mid-day and close briefs, plus research and wheel scans.
Order tracker
Checks order tracking for a weekly status update. Built with Dr. Eggbot.
Contest Winner
Enters daily sweepstakes for you.
Fix-yourself bot
A bot shared as a 'fix your self' helper.
Bot memory backup
Populates a private GitHub repo with everything the bot stores.
SEO/GEO blog process
A template for a quality SEO/GEO blog-writing process.