Muse priced Wi-Fi plugs and wrote a plant-light schedule script
OrbitalDesk asked Muse to fix broken indoor plant-light timers; Muse found cheap Wi-Fi plugs on Amazon and wrote a home-network schedule script for about $20 shipped.
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Automation use cases: 9 examples
Source-linked workflows that name Automation. Part of the AI agent use cases on UsecaseBoard, or browse all use cases.
Cronloop: Markdown-defined agents that loop every 5 minutes to weekly
Product Hunt’s Cronloop lets you describe a recurring job in Markdown, pick Codex or Claude Code, connect tools, and run agents on a loop with durable memory that can self-improve each run.
Give Grok Bot its own email alias so CC and forwards become triggers
Users are spinning up a dedicated agent inbox: forward mail for it to act, CC it on threads for scheduling, and subscribe tools/newsletters to that address instead of a personal one.
Barry pays the bills with OpenClaw + AgentPay + Playwright
A Reddit write-up: student feeds bill screenshots to OpenClaw agent Barry, which parses amount/due date, pays via encrypted AgentPay virtual card through Playwright portals, and texts a receipt—zero late fees in two weeks.
Penny: a Grok Bot that finds and cancels forgotten subscriptions
Jaxon Wright built a Grok Bot named Penny that reads bank charges and receipt emails, sorts subscriptions into likely-cancel / worth-a-look / keep, links each cancel page, and cancels only the ones you pick.
Turn Grok Bot into a branded business mission-control dashboard
Hunter Gatherer uses a Grok Bot as company mission control: three daily interactive HTML snapshots styled like the company website, with APIs into key tools plus draft-and-send texts.
Forward mail to Grok Bot’s own address instead of polling your inbox
After Grok Bot gained its own email address, a premium user stopped burning tokens on inbox polling routines and now forwards only the threads the bot should handle.
Invoice Chaser ranks overdue invoices and drafts reminders on Grok Bot
Paste an aging list and Invoice Chaser (built on Grok Bot) ranks who to chase, drafts friendly/firm/final reminders, and builds a send schedule—nothing goes out without approval.
Prepare an interviewer brief from each unprocessed resume row
GPT-4o-mini summarizes resume PDFs linked from a candidate sheet, emails the interviewer a structured brief, and marks the row processed to avoid repeats.