Everyone is using Claude mostly the same.. what’s something unique you think you’ve been doing that not a lot of people might know is possible?
Looking for interesting things to add to my day-to-day usage
Made this Spanish learning widget where it updates every 3 hours with a random Spanish word, it then won’t show the translation until you tap it and you’ll get translation and the pronunciation
It was made using Glance and is public to follow it so you can learn too 😁
Check it out at
https://glance.cool/spanish-lesson
Looking for interesting apps / MCPs you found out about lately
Things that are unrelated to work or development.. fun stuff I can add to my day-to-day
I built Glance, an iOS app that lets Claude create, design, and update widgets directly on your iPhone Home Screen.
I used Claude extensively while building it, both for development and for figuring out how the agent interaction should work. Claude helped me write and debug parts of the Swift/WidgetKit implementation, work through the MCP integration, design the tool schemas Claude uses to create widgets, and iterate on how generated UIs get translated into something that actually works inside an iOS widget.
More recently I built an MCP specifically so Claude itself can interact with Glance.
The interesting part for me is that Claude is no longer just helping build the app. It can now actually become part of the product.
For example, I can connect Claude to Glance and ask:
“Create a Home Screen widget that shows me the two latest Claude/Anthropic stories.”
Claude can create the widget, choose the layout, populate it, and later update the content again through the MCP.
Some other things people have made:
language-learning flash cards
personal news widgets
email/Slack summaries
daily briefs and progress trackers
puzzles and riddles
shared widgets that other people can follow
One thing I found surprisingly difficult was giving an LLM enough control over the UI without letting it generate layouts that break WidgetKit’s fairly constrained environment. A lot of the work ended up being around defining a component system and tool interface that gives Claude flexibility while still keeping the output valid.
The project is free to try, including the Claude/MCP connection.
If anyone here is experimenting with MCP or agent-generated interfaces, I’d especially be interested in your thoughts on this approach.
It's 30 s, 1080p, 60 fps. Snoo assembles itself, kinetic type, a subreddit marquee, a 3D upvote with a karma counter, an isometric feed that sorts itself, an r\place timelapse, a trending bar-chart race, feature tiles, a comment thread that turns into Snoo, a TIL / ELI5 / AMA montage, and an end card.
Everything is code: canvas frames drawn in headless Chrome and encoded with ffmpeg, plus a synthesized soundtrack. No After Effects, no stock footage, no video model.
What it cost. I'm on the Max 20x plan, so I never saw a bill. These are API list-price equivalents that I worked out from the session transcripts.
| Output tokens | Cache reads | Cache writes | At Sonnet 5.5 prices | Same tokens at Opus 5.5 prices | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 s version (one chat) | 210k | 10.6M | 0.29M | $4.94 | $7.77 |
| 30 s version (14 sub-agents) | 529k | 91.0M | 2.79M | $30.46 | $42.72 |
| Total | 739k | 101.6M | 3.07M | $35.40 | $50.48 |
Prices per million tokens: Sonnet 5.5 is $2 in / $10 out, Opus 5.5 is $4 / $20, and cache reads are $0.20 on both.
Cache writes I assumed at 1.25x input. The whole thing was 779 tool calls (161 in the main chat, 618 by the sub-agents) over about 2.4 hours, and much of that was waiting on renders.
So on paper Opus 5.5 would have been about 43% more expensive for the same tokens. It's not 2x because almost all the tokens are cache reads, which cost the same on both models.
I built an app that lets you connect your agents via MCP to your iPhone widgets and have them create, design, and update the content on them. Recently even published an official plugin in ChatGPT 😄
Best use cases so far were people using a scheduled task and getting frequent updates on curated news, language flash cards, and cool micro lessons.. The more professional users also combined it with multiple connectors and had their agent make them an agent brief widget which is also cool
The app has a free tier that lets you make 3 widgets and update them once an hour which should be enough for most use cases so anyone is more than welcome to try it out.. In fact I'd love to get feedback
The app is here
https://apps.apple.com/app/glance-home-screen-feeds/id6758983678
and if you want to connect via ChatGPT then this is the plugin link
https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6a897f3be004819180880dd62e2d779d?open_in_app
Hope you like it!
With all the recent buzz on the jev architecture .. Has anyone used it ? for anything valuable? Overall it looks cool and seems to make sense.. But how about its intelligence level like is it even good and the classification that it does? And what about the open jev and laya and vairants.. what about those?
I have an app called Glance, and I recently released a ChatGPT plugin that lets you create widgets from the chat
Ask ChatGPT to make you a news widget, learn a language, get briefs, etc
Use ChatGPT scheduled tasks to keep those updated as well
I built Glance, it’s an app that lets you connect Claude to a widget on iPhone via MCP
You can ask Claude to create the UI, and update it with data
In this example I made a simple Claude dashboard where it designed it and can update the content
You can make a bunch of different UI components and stuff
There is a free tier with unlimited access to the MCP and the basic UI components (like the one in the image and more)
I’d love to get your thoughts on it
App is at
https://apps.apple.com/app/glance-home-screen-feeds/id6758983678
Daily use apps only plus some facts
Fact widget is on Glance - https://apps.apple.com/app/glance-home-screen-feeds/id6758983678
It’s called Glance. You connect it to an AI like ChatGPT or Claude, then just describe what you want on your Home Screen.
The AI can create the widget, design the interface and push new information to it over time. You can also make interactive widgets with different views, charts, dashboards and more.
I’ve been using it for things like monitoring my business, following news, calendar/inbox dashboards, random facts and giving my AI agents a place to send me updates without having to open a chat.
Once it’s created, you just add the Glance widget to your Home Screen and select what you made.
I added some example that show interesting use cases like following grok bot progress or getting daily briefings from agent
Still experimenting a lot with what this can become, so I’d love to hear what you’d use it for.
You can check it out here
https://apps.apple.com/app/glance-home-screen-feeds/id6758983678
I’ve been building Glance, an iOS app that lets AI tools create and continuously update Home Screen widgets.
You can ask ChatGPT or Claude to make you something like a personal dashboard, news feed, business monitor, calendar, random facts or pretty much any widget you can describe. The AI can design the interface itself and then keep updating the content over time.
The idea is to make AI useful outside of the chat window and let it surface things you care about directly on your Home Screen.
Been having a lot of fun experimenting with what agents can do with it.
I’m building an app called Glance that lets AI agents create and update widgets on your iPhone Home Screen.
Been playing with Grok Bot and thought the group chat concept was perfect for this.
So I made a shared widget for a team of 4 Grok Bots. Each Bot gets its own color and can post what it’s working on, while the widget keeps track of overall progress, handoffs and the latest milestone.
The idea is basically to give your Grok Bot team a live little command center outside of the chat.
I wanted to give my agent a way to reach me beyond the chat, so I built Glance to let Claude create and update widgets directly on my iPhone Home Screen.
Just shipped a pretty big update to it.. Claude can now use multiple views, charts, calendars, toggles and more, so the widgets can feel more like little interfaces than just information cards.
Here’s the Mission Control I’ve been playing with.
Still experimenting with where this goes, but I really like the idea of my agent having a persistent place on my Home Screen instead of me always having to open a chat to interact with it.
I run an app, it’s called Glance.. it’s in the productivity field
I don’t have the budget to market the app so looked into various services that offer a profit share based program
But it got me thinking.. does it even work? Is anybody here had experience with this type of marketing?
Thanks!
Hey everyone :)
I made an app called Glance, it lets you connect your agents like ChatGPT and Claude to your Home Screen widget on your iPhone and have it update it with whatever you want
Launching today on product hunt to try and get the word out
Would really appreciate an upvote
I’ve recently released the latest update of my app, Glance, which included an MCP
Glance lets you create, design, and update widgets with content you push to them
With the latest released I’ve officially unlocked “vibe coding” for widgets
A user can now connect ChatGPT , Claude or any agent they want and ask them to design a widget and update it with content
You can create curated news widgets, daily briefs, random stuff, or combine it with additional plugins/connectors and push updates from jira gmail or whatever
It’s free to use for most of the daily things so I’ll be more
Than happy if you give it a try
App is at
https://apps.apple.com/app/glance-home-screen-feeds/id6758983678
More on Glance at
https://glance.cool
Looking to improve my workflows and wondering what other might do that’s useful
In giving Claude just things that help with day to day things
I built this app called Glance.. it lets you connect you agent to it and create custom widgets on you iPhone and have them updates by you agents.. perfect for using it along with additional plugins like mail/slack/jira/etc for the agent to generate a brief of things and update you with a nice glanceable widget