What people do with ChatGPT

• Negotiate a lower Comcast bill via chatbot

  DoNotPay's ChatGPT-based bot chatted with Comcast support for an engineer and secured a $10 monthly discount.

  12 accounts

• Write a parking ticket appeal that got dismissed

  The poster used ChatGPT to draft an appeal of a street-sweeping parking ticket, and the ticket was dismissed.

  4 accounts

• Claim unclaimed property using ChatGPT guidance

  A user photographed an unclaimed property letter and ChatGPT pointed them to the Florida treasury site to claim it; another says a fiancé claimed and received the money.

  2 accounts

• Claude

  Analyze budgets and research investments from bank data

  The poster pipes bank transaction data into ChatGPT and uses Claude for budget analysis, investment research, and summarizing and comparing financial reports.

• Draft a refund demand for an unauthorized renewal

  The poster used ChatGPT to write a stronger message to Skillshare after an unauthorized $24 renewal, threatening a dispute and chargeback.

All Money, Bills & Benefits use cases, from every agent

• Draft lesson plans and school paperwork for teachers

  A teacher used ChatGPT for lesson plans, reflections, PowerPoints, assessment notifications, and marking, saving hours of planning.

• Grade papers and build lesson plans for teachers

  Author built a proof-of-concept app using ChatGPT prompt templates to grade papers, generate lesson plans, and give feedback.

• Draft parent-teacher communications

  A teacher says ChatGPT handled all their parent-teacher communications for a month, and they also tried it for lesson planning.

• Create assessments and grade papers for classes

  A teacher's co-teacher uses ChatGPT to create assignments and tests, with commenters also using it to grade papers and create texts.

• Codex

  Run an autonomous employee-like agent for company tasks

  Author runs a self-built autonomous agent on Codex, ChatGPT Plus, systemd and email that handles various company tasks, using a rolling context, diary and markdown wiki for memory.

All Work & Operations use cases, from every agent

• Vibe-code a pull request dashboard across Azure DevOps repos

  Author used ChatGPT for architecture and the Junie agent in WebStorm to build a dashboard aggregating PRs across four repos, flagging approvals, conflicts and comments, in about 3 hours.

  2 accounts

• Claude

  Build a bare-bones Windows VNC client from an email brief

  The author emailed Claude a spec for a minimal VNC viewer targeting Windows 10 over a local SSH tunnel, to be built on a Mac and delivered with a checksum.

• Spec features with AI and hand off to coding agent

  Author discusses a spec with an AI agent or ChatGPT, then hands it to an agent to code, and tests the outcome instead of reading every line.

• Diagnose Swift errors with ChatGPT from symptoms and code

  A Swift developer feeds error symptoms and code to ChatGPT to get a starting lead on the cause, then reviews the code it produces.

• ClaudeCursor

  Build a mental models framework with a multi-agent dev team

  A solo founder used Claude, ChatGPT, Windsurf and Cursor as role-based team members to design, test and deploy a 120-model mental-models framework and MCP server.

All Software & DevOps use cases, from every agent

• Claude

  Compile and filter apartment listings

  A renter used Claude and ChatGPT to compile property-management sites and filter listings; results were decent but included some out-of-parameter listings, and he found a place through a friend.

• Generate a spoken daily news bulletin at home

  Poster built a morning news briefing with ChatGPT, ElevenLabs and Home Assistant that is read aloud through their home setup, replacing Alexa.

• Alexa+

  Turn spoken answers into a Todoist task list

  Alexa sends spoken answers to ChatGPT, which organizes them into a formatted list of tasks for the household workflow.

• Hunt for an apartment with an agent (partly failed)

  A self-hosted agent surfaced broken links and mismatched descriptions at over $100 in credits; ChatGPT then compared listings and scheduled searches until it lost site access.

All Life Admin & Home use cases, from every agent

• Claude

  Let AI agents search a store, build carts, and prep checkout

  A store is set up so Claude or ChatGPT agents can search the catalog, build a cart, and apply promo codes, then hand over a checkout link before payment.

• Plan meals and fill an Instacart cart

  The author used ChatGPT with the Instacart plugin to build a daily meal plan and put the ingredients into a ready-to-order shopping list.

• Build an Instacart grocery cart from a chat request

  A reporter connected Instacart to ChatGPT, which assembled the cart for formula, ice cream and fruit and opened a checkout confirmation in chat.

All Shopping & Errands use cases, from every agent

• Book a flight from your phone

  Tom booked a flight with ChatGPT Work on mobile; it asked for personal details, then opened a remote browser session for payment details.

• Plan family vacations with Deep Research

  Author uses ChatGPT Deep Research with detailed family prompts to find destinations, attractions and schedule trips; it can't yet filter and book accommodation.

• Find and rebook flights for a trip

  A former travel worker had ChatGPT search flights via Kayak and suggest earlier return options, then booked a Houston-to-NYC flight.

All Travel & Bookings use cases, from every agent

• Claude

  Generate LEGO CAD models in LDraw with AI agents

  A toolset and docs let ChatGPT and Claude agents write LDraw source files that become LEGO CAD models, packaged as a dockerized web app.

  2 accounts

• Claude CodeClaude in Chrome

  Build a balloon-camel simulator for an LED Burning Man totem

  Author used ChatGPT for reference images and Claude Code to build a Go balloon physics simulator with a web frontend, with Claude looping on screenshots and camera control.

• Claude Code

  Work helpdesk tickets with Claude Code and custom GPTs

  Support admins built CLIs and skills for Confluence, Jira and Zendesk with Claude Code, and used a custom GPT to draft ticket answers that had to be pasted back manually.

• Speed up a thesis literature review

  Author used ChatGPT to summarize and structure a thesis literature review, and tried a tool that builds summaries from real papers to avoid invented citations.

• Test a browser agent on web games

  Researchers had ChatGPT Atlas's browser agent play T-Rex Runner, Sudoku, Flappy Bird and Stein.world; it did well on logic puzzles like Sudoku, finishing faster than humans.