Cut needless words from your writing
One person built a small app with Claude that marks the words they could cut from their writing.
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- Students
- Claude
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Read old cursive handwriting
An old cursive letter was unreadable to one person. Gemini transcribed it in a few seconds.
- Individuals
- Seniors
- Gemini
Calculate fertilizer doses for an aquarium
An aquarium hobbyist gave Gemini a known fertilizer ratio and had it build dosing tables in grams for different tank sizes. The math checked out.
- Individuals
- Gemini
Recover broken dashcam videos
Some dashcam videos wouldn't play. As one person pasted in each error message, Gemini suggested the next fix.
- Individuals
- Gemini
Read and translate a handwritten postcard
A postcard in Russian cursive was hard to read and full of noise. Gemini transcribed and translated it into English, even though nobody told it the language was Russian.
- Individuals
- Seniors
- Gemini
Get spoken help fixing a computer when you're blind
A blind user pointed a webcam at the screen and talked with Gemini Live to change BIOS settings and reinstall Windows, one screen at a time.
- Individuals
- Seniors
- Gemini
Prepare to fight a traffic ticket
Contesting a speeding ticket, one driver checked with Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT to be sure they didn't miss a step.
- Individuals
- Legal
- ChatGPT
- Claude
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Make realistic product mockups for a small shop
A furniture maker used Gemini to put a photo of a bed he built into different styled rooms. He posted the pictures with his number to take orders.
- Small businesses
- Trades
- Gemini
Research case law for a lawsuit without a lawyer
Representing themselves in a lawsuit, one person used Gemini to find case law, guess what the other side would argue, and check citations.
- Individuals
- Legal
- Gemini
Practice behavioral interview answers out loud
A job seeker had Gemini Live ask common interview questions and give feedback. Saying answers out loud, they found, is very different from writing them.
- Individuals
- Students
- Gemini
Get alerted when a DMV appointment opens up
Claude helped one person write a small app that watched for open driver's license renewal slots. Instead of waiting six months, they got an appointment within days.
- Individuals
- Claude
Analyze years of weather data to plan hiking trips
A climber used Claude to pull 20 years of Pacific Northwest weather data and find smarter backup plans for mountain trips.
- Individuals
- Claude
Plan your landscaping with diagrams
One homeowner planned their landscaping with Claude. It drew bed diagrams showing where each plant goes and how big it will get.
- Individuals
- Claude
Shorten a long post to fit a character limit
A post was 5,600 characters and the limit was 4,000. Claude trimmed it to fit.
- Individuals
- Claude
Make a checklist before reinstalling your laptop
Before wiping their laptop, one person asked Claude Cowork for a checklist of settings, apps, downloads, and documents to back up.
- Individuals
- Claude
Be careful asking AI to read MRI scans
When one person had Claude read their MRI images, the answer looked convincing. It turned out Claude was only reading the notes stored in the file, not the scans themselves.
- Healthcare
- Individuals
- Claude
Turn bank statements into a monthly spending summary
Statements from different banks and cards all looked different, so one person built a tool with Claude that reads any of them and sorts spending into their own categories each month.
- Individuals
- Claude
Make custom math worksheets for your kid
A parent built a tool with Claude to make worksheets aimed squarely at the math their daughter was stuck on. It worked.
- Parents
- Teachers
- Claude
Update a charity's website content
A volunteer updated a charity's website with Gemini. It even offered to look at a beneficiary's site for more details to include.
- Nonprofits
- Gemini
Check who funded a health study
Digging into a health study with Gemini, one reader learned the drug's maker paid for it and some authors worked for the company.
- Individuals
- Seniors
- Gemini
Find a compatible power adapter for old gear
One person used Gemini to work out which power adapter would be safe for an old retro gaming device.
- Individuals
- Gemini
Summarize a long video
Instead of sitting through a whole video, one person had Gemini write a summary they could read.
- Individuals
- Students
- Gemini
Move health data between apps
One person had Gemini convert health data from a CSV file so they could import it into Apple Health. It worked on the first try.
- Individuals
- Gemini
Fix a home boiler problem from photos
A new boiler was acting up. The homeowner sent Gemini photos, found it was a user setting, and fixed it without calling a plumber.
- Individuals
- Trades
- Gemini
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