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Get quotes and negotiate a home-appliance replacement
After researching water-softener specs, the poster had an agent handle hunting for quotes and negotiating prices instead of doing it himself.
OpenClaw Home & life admin X · 2026-07-21Have AI make phone calls to companies for you
Piper: an AI that calls customer-service lines on your behalf.
Piper Home & life admin Hacker News · 2025-07-28Strip bloatware from an old smart TV with a coding agent
Claude Code, running on a Mac mini, connected to a parents' Android TV over ADB, disabled bloatware, tracking and auto-installers, removed 11 unused apps, freed about 90% more RAM, and built a simple launcher, with every change undoable in one command.
Claude Code Home & life admin X · 2026-10-17Fight a government records error with proof dug out of your own files
When the Nevada DMV claimed a 2018 insurance lapse and wanted an SR-22 fee, Claude Code searched the user's Gmail and Google Drive for proof of coverage, built an evidence packet and drafted the rebuttal.
Claude Code Home & life admin X · 2026-10-14Hand your weekly grocery order to an agent
Nick Dobos has his agent do his grocery shopping, his second biggest monthly expense. When Amazon blocked the agent from ordering Whole Foods, it switched to Instacart.
Personal AI agent Home & life admin X · 2026-10-15Put a team of agents on meal planning, nutrition and groceries
Guo Yu set up a Grok Bot group chat with three agents: one books restaurants, one tracks calories and nutrition, one buys groceries. When a recipe's ingredients weren't sold at nearby online supermarkets, they worked it out together and switched recipes. (Post is in Chinese.)
Grok Bot Home & life admin X · 2026-10-17Win the race for parent-teacher conference slots
Elizabeth Knopf's agent (Dots) watched for the school's sign-up email, with her family calendars and time preferences already connected. When the email came, it booked her priority parent-teacher slots on SignUpGenius and saved the calendar invites while she was on a call, before the convenient times were gone.
Dots Home & life admin X · 2026-10-19Inventory your fridge from photos and cut domains you don't need
In one week, kukulobo's agent Muse catalogued his whole fridge and pantry from 17 photos, went through the domains he owns to decide which ones not to renew, and filed archive removal requests.
Muse Home & life admin X · 2026-10-18