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What people actually get these assistants to do, ranked by engagement on X. Each one has a prompt you can send and a link to the post.
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Print a morning newspaper from your calendar and email
Instead of checking the phone first thing, an agent pulls the day's calendar and email overnight and prints a one-page paper before the poster wakes up.
Try sendingEvery night at 5am, read tomorrow's calendar and anything new in my inbox, lay it out like a short newspaper front page, and send it to my printer. - 2
Book a business-class seat without paying the cash fare
A Barcelona to LA business-class seat was $6,500 and nothing showed up on miles by hand. One text to Miso found a bookable way to fly it flat.
Try sendingFind me a business class seat from Barcelona to Los Angeles on [date]. Use my points or any cheaper routing; the cash fare is $6,500 and I won't pay that. - 3
Test whether it can be phished by email
Created a fresh Gmail account and emailed their own inbox with instructions addressed to Instinct, to see whether it would follow orders from a stranger's email.
What they sent(Sent an email from a new account containing instructions for the assistant, then watched what it did.)Security test; read the thread for the result before giving any assistant inbox access.
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Shop for homeowners insurance and book a doctor
In a 48-hour trial it shopped for new homeowners insurance, booked a doctor's appointment online, searched travel and managed LinkedIn notifications. The poster then deleted the account over how much access it needed.
Try sendingGet me quotes for homeowners insurance on [address] with the same coverage as my current policy, then book me a check-up with my doctor next week.Poster deleted their account afterwards over access and trust.
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Fly lie-flat to Europe on points
Two seats NYC to Europe in business class for 60,000 points plus $400, booked over iMessage without hunting for deals.
Try sendingBook two business class seats from NYC to [city] around [dates] using my points. Keep the cash part under $500. - 6
Prioritize email and pull customer context before a call
A CEO's team has used it for scheduling, email prioritization and assembling everything known about a customer ahead of a conversation.
Try sendingBefore my 2pm with [company], pull everything we have on them across email, CRM and Slack into a one-page brief. - 7
Talk through a problem by voice and show it on camera
Live voice conversation with interruptions that keep context, and the camera works inside the same mode, so you can show a problem instead of describing it.
Try sending(Voice mode) Here's what I'm looking at on the camera. What's wrong with it and how do I fix it? - 8
Turn meeting transcripts into a daily follow-up list
Record every meeting with Granola, connect it to the agent, and set a daily routine that reads every transcript for action items, follow-ups and things you're waiting on from others.
What they sentEvery evening, go through today's Granola transcripts and list every action item I own, every follow-up I promised, and everything I'm waiting on from someone else. - 9
Queue warm prospects, send only after approval
One of seven bot setups shared: an outreach agent builds a daily queue of warm prospects and nothing goes out until a human approves it. Another answers sponsorship rate requests from a fixed offer.
Try sendingEvery morning, build a queue of warm prospects from my inbox and CRM, draft the outreach, and wait for my approval before anything is sent. - 10
Order furniture and book someone to assemble it
Ordered IKEA shelves and booked a TaskRabbit for delivery and assembly in the same job.
Try sendingOrder the [shelf model] from IKEA to my apartment and book a TaskRabbit to deliver and assemble it this weekend. - 11
Handle client intake through to booking
A photographer had Pally take a client from first message to a booked shoot, talking, negotiating and following up, and rated it 8 of 10.
Try sendingWhen a new client messages me, find out what they need, quote my rates, negotiate within my range, book them, and follow up if they go quiet. - 12
Book wedding flights and find forgotten airline credit
Searched every NYC airport, found $1,073 of JetBlue credit the poster had forgotten, checked the hotel already booked, and booked three seats together.
What they senthelp me find flights to Cancun for the three of us for a wedding. - 13
Run a Product Hunt launch day
A team handed their Product Hunt login to a Skydive agent and it ran launch day, climbing the leaderboard while they talked to users.
Try sendingHere's our Product Hunt login. Watch our ranking all day, reply to every comment, and post an update to Slack each hour. - 14
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Book a flight for your kid and a dinner table
First night on Instinct: a flight booked for the poster's son and dinner reservations made, all by text.
Try sendingBook my son a flight to [city] on [date], morning departure. Then get us a table for four at [restaurant] on Friday at 7. - 16
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Turn kids' activity emails into calendar invites and flag conflicts
A standing instruction to watch fifty emails about kids' activities, create calendar invites with the right people copied, warn about conflicts ahead of time, and draft the fix.
What they sentMonitor these 50 emails about kids activities and make calendar invites cc'ing these people. Pre-alert me to conflicts and draft emails with suggested fixes. - 18
Reflow a PDF for Kindle and send it to the device
Ask Littlebird to reflow a PDF into a clean Kindle document, give the agent its own email address, add that to Kindle's approved list, and it delivers straight to the device.
What they sentReflow this PDF into a Kindle-ready document and email it to my Kindle address. - 19
Audit forgotten subscriptions
Went through Gmail, mapped every recurring subscription, and surfaced about $700 a year the poster didn't know they were still paying.
Try sendingGo through my Gmail and list every recurring subscription with its monthly cost. Flag the ones I haven't used in months and tell me how to cancel them. - 20
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Reply to cold-email responses and book the call
A prospect replied to a cold email; the bot handled the objection, pushed for a time, got a verbal yes for Thursday at 2, and put it on the calendar.
Try sendingWhen someone replies to my outreach, answer their objections, propose two times, and book the call on my calendar once they agree. - 22
Run personal logistics by text
The poster had a long list of personal logistics tasks to hand to a text-based agent and tried Ollie for them. Too many errors to keep going.
Try sendingHere's my list of errands and admin for the week. Work through them and check with me before anything is booked or paid.Reported as not working well enough.
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Build a small elemental crafting game
As a test of the platform, the poster built a game where you combine wind, water, soil and fire to discover new materials.
Try sendingMake a simple game where I combine wind, water, soil and fire to discover new materials, and let players share interesting combinations. - 24
Watch X for trends and click-test your apps overnight
Across five businesses for a week: patrols X every fifteen minutes and pings when something starts moving, and click-tests the poster's apps all night.
Try sendingCheck X every 15 minutes for anything trending in [topic] and message me the moment a wave starts. Overnight, click through every flow in [app] and report what breaks. - 25
Downgrade a plan when the bill jumps
After a higher-than-expected Netflix email it switched plans and saved $80 a year, rescued an email from spam, and reminded the poster about a vet visit. It also claimed to have ordered a pizza it hadn't.
Try sendingMy Netflix bill just went up. Find a cheaper plan that still works for us and switch me to it.Mixed first day: one task was reported done when it wasn't.
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Edit your website by telling it what to change
Set up in thirty seconds by someone with no design background. They look at the site a couple of times a day and tell the bot what to change.
Try sendingChange the homepage headline to "[new headline]" and make the signup button green. - 27
Build a dashboard that shows what your agents are doing
Wanted a more fun way to watch a fleet of agents, so had Grok Bot build a dashboard where the poster's NFTs run around a village while the agents work.
Try sendingBuild me a dashboard that shows each of my agents as a character, what it's working on, and when it finishes. - 28
Put 32 assistants in one group chat
A stress test that went sideways: 3,457 messages in two hours. One bot posted the same signup link 1,751 times; Asmi kept summarizing it and asking who everyone was.
What they sent(Added 32 iMessage assistants to a single group chat.)Stress test; it did not go well for anyone.
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Book a rental car on Turo
One line and a screenshot: the bot found and booked a car on Turo for the poster.
Try sendingBook me a car on Turo for [dates] near [airport], something mid-size under $[X] a day. - 30
A partnerships bot that heat-maps 300 sales contacts
A "head of partnerships" agent tracks engagement across 300 partner sales reps, spots which regions to double down on or are being neglected, and helps plan quarterly events.
Try sendingTrack my contacts at [partner]: who we've talked to, how often, and which regions we're neglecting. Give me a heat map every Monday and suggest who to reach out to. - 31
Switch energy provider to the best offer
Collected offers from several providers, picked the best deal for the home, and submitted the switch form. About €500 saved on a job that took half a day the year before.
Try sendingCompare energy contracts for our home, get offers from the main providers, and switch us to the best one. - 32
Catch a scheduling mistake before it bites
Noticed a mistake the poster's husband made while scheduling something for the family, flagged it unprompted, and suggested a fix.
Try sendingKeep an eye on our family calendar and tell me if anything conflicts or looks wrong. - 33
Coordinate a complicated meeting over WhatsApp
Scheduled a fairly complex meeting, kept everyone updated as things changed, all inside WhatsApp.
Try sendingSet up a meeting with [four people] next week, work around everyone's calendars, and update the group if anything moves. - 34
Recover trial signups who stalled
Connected to a sales tool's MCP, one agent catches every signup that never connected LinkedIn, finds their email and profile, adds them to a sequence, and asks what stopped them.
Try sendingEvery morning, find trial signups from yesterday who never finished setup, look up their email and LinkedIn, and add them to the "what stopped you?" sequence. - 35
Order lunch from an assistant you host yourself
Set up OpenInstinct on their own infrastructure and had it order lunch on the first run.
Try sendingOrder me lunch from [place], my usual, delivered to the office by 12:30. - 36
Win a refund after support said no
Reviewed the whole email thread with a vendor that had refused a refund, then wrote and sent the response that got the money back.
Try sendingRead my email thread with [company] about the refund they refused, write a response that makes the case, and send it. - 37
Set up guardrails before giving it your inbox
Reluctant to hand over Gmail, the poster asked the bot to install Superagent's Context Guardrails on itself, and it set the whole thing up.
Try sendingBefore you get access to my Gmail, install Superagent's Context Guardrails on yourself and show me what it will block. - 38
Run ads, creatives, leads and meetings from one self-hosted agent
A self-hosted OpenClaw setup that manages creatives through Canva and Figma, the ads account through the Graph API, leads through the CRM, and meetings through Calendly.
Try sendingEvery morning, pull yesterday's ad performance, update the numbers in the sheet, flag creatives to refresh in Canva, and list any new leads that need a Calendly invite.Self-hosted; the poster wired the integrations themselves.
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Parenting logistics from the tools the family already uses
Connected to inboxes, calendars, ClassDojo and medication order history, so the guidance is specific: what the kids need this week and what's slipping.
Try sendingCheck ClassDojo, our calendars and the pharmacy emails. What do the kids need this week and what am I missing? - 40
Run the kids' school logistics
A weekday morning digest of the calendar plus what actually needs a parent, with a separate agent per kid pulling grades, assignments, portal info and school email, triaging act-now from FYI, and drafting replies for approval.
Try sendingEach weekday at 6:30am, check the school portal and school email for each kid, list what's due and anything that needs me today, and draft replies for me to approve. - 41
Automate app releases end to end
Skills that trigger the build, upload it to the App Store, autofill the release notes, and run end-to-end tests on every update.
Try sendingWhen I tag a release, build the app, upload it to App Store Connect, write the release notes from the commit log, and run the E2E suite before submitting. - 42
Review affiliate claims for fraud on a schedule
An agent hooked to dub.co reviews every affiliate claim against internal logs, removes fraud, pays the real people, and repeats on a schedule.
What they sentHook into dub.co and review all affiliate claims against our internal logs. Find fraud, remove it, pay the real people, repeat on a schedule, and ping me when you need me. - 43
Get your number off a telemarketer's list
Fo took care of getting the poster's phone number removed from a telemarketer. It also sits in a group text with another agent and workshops X posts every morning.
Try sendingCall [company] and get my number removed from their call list, then confirm it in writing. - 44
Chase a refund through live support chat
Sat in a live support chat for a service the poster forgot to cancel, checked in on the important decisions, continued by email, and got a $100 refund the same day.
Try sendingI forgot to cancel [service]. Contact their support, get the last charge refunded, and check with me before agreeing to anything. - 45
Get work done on a flight where only iMessage works
Delta wifi only allowed iMessage, so the poster worked through Folk for the whole flight.
Try sendingThe wifi here only lets iMessage through. Send me the summary of today's thread with [client] and draft my reply. - 46
Post a daily news digest to Discord at 7am
Told in Discord to pick a few AI stories each morning and post summaries; the assistant wrote its own standing instructions and has posted every day at 7 since.
What they sentEvery morning at 7, pick a few AI news stories, summarize them, and post them to this server.Prompt translated from Japanese.
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Phone a friend to confirm plans
Called the poster's friend, confirmed tomorrow's party details, and reported back, all from a text conversation.
Try sendingCall [friend] and confirm the time and address for tomorrow's party, then text me what they said. - 49
Triage email inside Superhuman
An agent that uses Superhuman on the poster's behalf because they couldn't be bothered to learn the shortcuts.
Try sendingLog into Superhuman, archive newsletters, star anything from clients, and draft replies for me to approve. - 50
Get car registration paperwork ready before the RMV
After a cross-country move, Poke had all the car registration paperwork researched and ready before the poster walked in. Fifteen minutes in and out.
Try sendingI just moved to [state]. What do I need to register my car here? List the documents and fill in whatever forms you can. - 51
Ask for a flight upgrade
The poster reports a free first-class upgrade on their flight after asking Instinct to try.
Try sendingSee if you can get me an upgrade on tomorrow's flight. - 52
Find every recurring charge
One text, then coffee. It came back with twelve recurring charges, including a $15 Canva plan the poster had forgotten.
What they sentfind every recurring charge on me - 53
Build Magic decks from the cards you already own
Connected to ManaBox card data and trained on the EDHREC meta, the agent builds Commander decks from the poster's bulk instead of buying more cards.
Try sendingUse my ManaBox collection and the current EDHREC meta to build a Commander deck around [commander] from cards I already own. - 54
Sell your season tickets for the games you'll miss
Watches the poster's travel calendar, cross-references Suns and ASU football season tickets, and lists the games they'll be away for.
Try sendingWatch my travel calendar. Whenever I'm out of town for a Suns or ASU home game, list those tickets for sale. - 55
Find gallery openings and put them on your calendar
The poster's favorite use: Caddy finds gallery openings and lectures, then adds them to the calendar.
Try sendingFind gallery openings and art lectures in [city] this month and add the ones on weeknights to my calendar. - 56
Let only real email through, with replies pre-drafted
Two weeks as a daily driver: about 90% of email never seen, replies auto-drafted in the poster's style, learned from what they send.
Try sendingOnly show me email that needs me. For those, draft a reply in my voice and learn from what I change. - 57
Book beach chairs for a vacation, calls included
Pulled up the hotel reservation, researched beach chair and umbrella companies nearby, made three phone calls and booked the week online with the card on file, in about thirty minutes.
Try sendingWe're at [hotel] the week of [date]. Find beach chair and umbrella rentals nearby, call to check availability, and book us for the week. - 58
Check Airbnb every day for a better place
With a refundable Airbnb already booked too far from a race start, a bot checks Airbnb daily for something closer and better and reports back.
Try sendingMy Airbnb for [event] is refundable until [date]. Check Airbnb every morning for a place closer to [address] at a similar price and message me when you find one. - 59
Chase a missing FedEx delivery
Figured out where a missing FedEx package was and chased them, getting through the phone tree the poster had given up on.
Try sendingMy FedEx package [tracking number] never arrived. Call them, find out where it is, and get it redelivered. - 60
Hunt for apartments and apply
Found legitimate listings and submitted applications. Rated 8 of 10: some hallucination and mixed-up context along the way.
Try sendingFind two-bedroom apartments in [neighborhood] under [$] a month, and apply to the ones that fit my criteria.Some hallucinated details; check before you sign.
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Add calendar events by talking into a smart ring
Connected a Pebble Index ring to Poke, so speaking into the ring adds things to the calendar.
Try sendingAdd dinner with Sam on Thursday at 7 to my calendar. - 62
Prep LinkedIn prospecting every day, you approve the first touch
An agency owner plugged a lead tool into Grok Bot; it preps live LinkedIn prospects daily and the owner approves every first message. Three appointments booked the first week.
Try sendingEvery morning, build a list of 20 LinkedIn prospects matching [criteria], draft a first message for each, and wait for my approval before sending. - 63
Keep a home remodel moving
Routines set up for a friend mid-remodel, starting with a weekly check-in that nudges the contractor when work stalls.
Try sendingEvery Monday, check what the contractor said was due last week, and if there's been no update, send them a polite nudge asking for a status and a date. - 64
A morning briefing with the replies already drafted
Sweeps email, drafts responses, sends a morning briefing and handles calendaring. The poster's point: it does this without being asked each day.
Try sendingEvery morning, brief me on what came in overnight, draft replies to anything that needs one, and flag calendar conflicts. - 65
Let your agent argue with the airline's agent
Handed a flight transaction dispute to a self-hosted OpenClaw agent, which took over the support thread and negotiated with the airline's own AI support.
Try sendingTake over this support thread with [airline] about the double charge on [date] and get it refunded. Loop me in only if they need something from me. - 66
Find webinars worth attending and book them
A bot that knows the poster's learning goals for the next six months scans a list of sites for relevant webinars, checks the calendar for space, and books them. Used to take 15 to 30 minutes a week.
Try sendingMy learning goals this half are [topics]. Each week, check these sites for webinars that fit, make sure I'm free, and register me. - 67
Plan a group city trip end to end
Train from Berlin, sightseeing, a dinner for six, things to do near the hotel, and tickets to a musical, all planned in one thread.
Try sendingPlan a weekend in Hamburg for six of us: train from Berlin, the sights, a dinner for six near [hotel], and tickets to MJ the Musical on Saturday. - 68
Track the cost of cancelling a flight you might not take
A flight booked at 50/50 with cancellation fees that rise over time; an agent reports each day what cancelling costs now and when the next fee tier kicks in.
Try sendingFor my [airline] booking [confirmation], tell me every morning what it costs to cancel today and the date the next fee increase kicks in. - 69
Hand your whole travel life to a text thread
Over five months: 37 flights across 10 airlines and 4 continents, 12 changes and cancellations handled, 13 delays monitored, 34 check-ins done, hotels too, all over 1,506 iMessages.
Try sendingBook me [route] on [date], cheapest business class using points if it beats cash. Watch the flight for delays and check me in when it opens. - 70
A birthday cabin, a dinner table, Costco whey and a fax to the bank
In a few days: booked a cabin and a dinner reservation for a birthday, ordered whey protein from Costco, faxed an obscure document to a bank to get a late fee refunded, and checked whether a new dentist was in-network.
Try sendingFax this document to [bank] so they refund the late fee, and let me know when they confirm. - 71
Run a multi-country road trip
Worked out which countries needed passes and bought them, planned each day's itinerary, messaged the hotel, kept the family updated on flight details and picked where to eat at the airport.
Try sendingWe're driving from [city] through [countries] next week. Figure out any passes or vignettes we need and buy them, then plan each day and message our hotels with arrival times. - 72
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Book the hotel, even when it can't do the flight
The first time Catch completed part of a trip on its own: it didn't book the flight, which didn't seem supported, but it booked the hotel and found a better rate than the poster usually gets.
Try sendingBook me a hotel near [address] for [dates], under $[X] a night, with free cancellation.Flight booking wasn't supported at the time.
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