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.
AI agent use cases: Ops & automation
Real ops & automation projects people built with AI agents, with recipes.
Use cases
Check whether you really need replacement staff before calling them in
A hotel analyst built an n8n workflow to check housekeeping staffing needs with data when staff call in sick.
Let an always-on agent post to Slack and bring replies back
Dan Shipper says OpenAI’s Dots took over Every, from relaying Slack threads to pulling key info out of school emails.
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.
Vibe code the production calendar your CRM can't give you
A field crew business built its own scheduling tool on top of its CRM, and it is now the company's daily source of truth.
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?'.
Have your agent write scripts for cron jobs instead of calling the LLM each time
An OpenClaw user says his biggest early mistake was running cron jobs through the LLM; scripts are faster and cheaper.
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.
Run your business on a self-hosted company OS of Claude Code and Codex agents
A founder built, and runs his business on, a self-hosted company OS where Claude Code and Codex agents work in departments.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Update client records from one Telegram message, but only when confident
An automation builder made an n8n flow that updates Notion and Sheets from a Telegram message and refuses below 80% match confidence.
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