Spend leftover Claude and Codex quota on small pull requests
A founder built a bot that turns spare subscription tokens into pull requests for small tasks he never gets around to.
Software use cases
Real things people did with Software work, sourced and with recipes.
Use cases
Drive coding agents from Telegram and resume after usage limits
A developer built nightmux to control Claude Code agents from Telegram and auto-resume past usage limits overnight.
Host personal agents in sandboxes for cents a month
A bootstrapped YC founder explains how his sandbox service runs personal Claude Code and OpenClaw agents for about $0.05-$0.10 per free user a month.
Run a fleet of coding agents like a teaching hospital
Two Cockroach Labs engineers turned GitHub issues into 'patients' handled by agent roles (triage nurse, fellow, reviewing attending, discharge nurse) and shipped production code for five months.
Let your agents draw arrows and boxes on your screen
A developer made a tool so coding agents can point at things on your screen with big arrows, boxes and text.
Make Claude’s replies half as long with a plugin
A developer annoyed by long, filler-heavy replies built a Claude Code plugin that cuts them.
See all your Claude Code and Codex sessions on one board
A team with 90 AI sessions running at once built a local board showing which ones are waiting on them.
Have Claude Code review your requirements against your roadmap
A developer found Claude Code more useful for reviewing requirements than writing them.
Ask Claude Code for your app revenue metrics over MCP
A Shopify app developer built a replacement for a shut-down analytics tool, with an MCP server so Claude Code can answer 'what was last month's MRR?'.
Hook your agent to support tickets and product analytics to fix bugs
A founder connected an agent to customer support and the PostHog MCP so it keeps fixing bugs and feature requests.
Cap spending before you let a coding agent spawn sub-agents
A developer reports that a simple UI review task in Codex spawned 826 child tasks and roughly $78,000 in usage without his approval.
Make Rust libraries faster by looping agents against benchmarks
A data scientist got agents to write Rust ML and utility crates that beat established libraries on speed by giving them benchmark targets and strict anti-cheating rules.
Catch conflicting plans between parallel coding agents before they merge
A team running several coding agents on one repo built a tool to catch intent conflicts Git cannot see.
Replace paid SaaS tools with your own vibe coded services
An indie founder replaced more than a dozen paid services across his sites with self-built tools and says it saves about $25,000 a month.
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.
Agree on PR rules before a teammate sends a 5,000-line vibe-coded PR
A developer wrote about his business partner sending a 5,000-line vibe-coded PR he had not tested.
Let users file bug reports through an AI that dedupes and writes the ticket
A team runs an AI tool that checks for duplicates, writes up the ticket and submits it, using MCP to talk to their tracker.
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.
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.
Give non-technical admins CMS stats and edits through an MCP
A developer built an MCP so admins can work with the CMS and get statistics from their AI client.
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.
Match 40 web pages pixel-perfect to Figma with Codex and the Figma MCP
Facing 40 pages to match to an inconsistent Figma file, a developer connected the Figma MCP to Codex, and it did the job.
Go from alert to fix with MCPs for logs, metrics, incidents and code
An SRE team gave its LLM MCPs for Loki, Prometheus, Grafana, Incident.io, GitHub and server inventory.
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.
Let your agent buy a domain, behind a human approval step
A builder’s OpenClaw agent bought a domain and started building the product; he approved the purchase through an approval tool he built.
Find a SaaS idea and build it with Claude Code until customers pay
A builder used Claude Code to come up with a SaaS idea, implement it, and land a second paying customer.
Generate slide decks from a repo that warn when they drift from the code
A developer made a skill that turns a codebase into slides whose references carry line ranges and hashes.
Build an agent that knows everything about your company
Founders who struggled to set up a Hermes agent with full company context turned that into Almanac.
Watch user sessions, find real bugs and open only verified fixes
A former Robinhood engineer built an open-source agent that investigates user-facing issues and opens a PR only when it can verify the fix.
Migrate 12-year-old .NET code to .NET 10 with Claude Code
A developer used Claude Code to move a 2014 TCP sockets project to .NET 10.
Pause your music when Claude Code needs you
A developer made Spotify pause whenever Claude Code needs input and resume when you answer.
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