Let Claude control a music notation app over MCP
A developer built an iPad and Mac notation editor that Claude Code or Claude Desktop can drive.
Claude use cases
Real things people did with Claude, sourced and with recipes.
Use cases
Rebuild SimCity 2000 as a low-poly web game with 27 subagents
A developer had Opus 5.5 decompile SimCity 2000 with Ghidra and port it function by function to TypeScript and WebGL over a few days.
Screen new magnetic materials for computer memory with an agent team
A researcher used a team of Claude Opus agents to run physics simulations and surface two candidate magnets for spin-based memory, then published every calculation.
Edit Shorts automatically from a script with n8n, Claude and Remotion
A creator built an n8n workflow that turns a script into a finished short video using Claude and Remotion.
Build your own finance workflow tool after 20 years in finance
A finance veteran who picked coding back up built a local-first tool for finance workflows as a side project.
Notice you no longer understand your own app, and go back to coding by hand
A solo developer who added features at breakneck speed with Claude realized he no longer understood his app.
Scrape every UK council planning portal with Claude and monitor it over MCP
A developer built a planning-applications scraper for every UK local planning authority with Claude, then added an MCP view of scraper health.
Post a daily Sentry error digest to Slack with a Claude routine
A team runs a Claude routine with no internet except Slack and Sentry that compares errors to source code and posts a daily digest.
Let clients chat with their social media sentiment instead of dashboards
A community-management company exposes follower conversations over MCP so customers can ask their own AI what people are angry about.
Debug user issues in minutes with Claude, observability and read-only DB access
A developer connects Claude to dash0, Linear and a read-only production database, and opened an MCP over their own GraphQL API.
Let hosting customers debug and deploy sites by asking Claude or Cursor
A UK managed-hosting company launched an MCP for its control panel so users can ask why a site errors or deploy a project.
Build Garmin workouts from your training data inside ChatGPT or Claude
An endurance sports analytics service lets users connect its MCP to their chat app, analyze training and push workouts to Garmin.
Turn plans into tickets on your own board, even by voice on a walk
A developer has Claude split feature plans into small tickets on his self-made board, which his phone assistant can also add to.
Ship an MCP with a physical card deck so facilitators can plan workshops
A maker of printed facilitation cards offers an MCP server so buyers can plan workshops with the deck in Claude Desktop.
Generate parametric furniture in Blender by driving it from Claude
A 3D artist drives Blender from Claude to build Geometry Nodes and asset libraries.
Let CRM customers combine your data with other MCPs in Claude or Copilot
A niche CRM vendor’s MCP lets non-technical users connect platform data to Claude or Copilot.
Investigate production incidents with a purpose-built SRE agent
A SaaS SRE team that struggled with general agents in incident response built its own Rust agent.
Give your agent access to Apple Calendar, Reminders, Contacts and Mail
A developer built a CLI, MCP and plugins so his OpenClaw agent, Codex and Claude can use Apple’s personal apps.
Navigate a cancer diagnosis with an AI skill for patients and caregivers
Peter Yang open-sourced an AI skill to help patients and caregivers navigate cancer diagnosis and treatment and advocate for themselves.
Do customer support from your phone with the Claude app
An indie app founder now handles support, feature triage and bug fixes from anywhere with the Claude app.
Rebuild a classic sim game with a new twist using Claude
A developer who has been rebuilding old games with Claude made a SimTower-like game whose economy runs on democratic socialism.
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