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Turn plans into tickets on your own board, even by voice on a walk.
✅ His phone’s assistant can write to it too, so he captures tasks mid-walk.
Who it’s for
Anyone who wants help with everyday life admin: bills, bookings, forms and planning.
Adapt it to your industry
- Freelancer: chase unpaid invoices politely
- Small business: handle supplier disputes and refunds
- Family: plan meals, trips and appointments
Step by step
- Pick one annoying task (a refund, a booking, a form, a plan).
- Open ChatGPT, Claude or Grok and paste the prompt below with the details (leave out passwords and card numbers).
- Ask it to write the message, list what to say, or fill in the form text.
- Read everything before sending and fix anything that isn’t true.
- Send it yourself, and paste the reply back if you need a next step.
- Save the prompt for next time.
Ready-to-copy prompt
Split this feature plan into tickets of under 2 hours each, with acceptance criteria, and add them to my board.Start with AI
Opens the AI with this guide and the prompt filled in.
- Cost
- $0–20/month (free tiers or one AI plan)Our estimate
- Time
- 1–2 weekendsOur estimate
How to make money from it
Pricing idea: If friends keep asking you for this, offer it as a done-for-you service at a fixed price per task.
Finding your first 10 customers
- Help 3 friends for free and ask what it saved them.
- Offer it in local community groups.
- Ask each person for one referral.
Ideas, not promises. Results vary.
Details: source, numbers and tags
What they did
VanTodi built a ticket board with an MCP and web GUI. When planning features with Claude he asks it to cut the work into small tickets on the board.
How it went
His phone’s assistant can write to it too, so he captures tasks mid-walk.
Worth knowing
Small tickets keep agent work reviewable.
- Difficulty
- IntermediateOur rating
- Time to build
- Not reportedOur estimate
- Monthly cost
- Not reported
- Revenue
- Not reportedWe only show revenue the source states
- Engagement
- 0 replies to HN commentComment in “Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?” (198 points, 201 comments) · fetched Oct 15, 2026
Original builder recipe
- A simple ticket board with MCP
- Claude
- Phone voice assistant
- Give the agent access only to the accounts it needs.
- Write a clear brief with hard constraints.
- Ask it to report back before anything irreversible.
- Review the outcome and refine the brief.
Tags
Read the original
- Hacker News: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49561214 ↗ (opens in new tab) Sep 4, 2026 · HN comment, 0 replies, thread: 198 points, 201 comments (fetched 2026-10-15)
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