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Recently I’ve been looking into automation, but at the beginning I honestly didn’t really know what people would actually be willing to pay for. So over the past few months, I scraped more than 10,000 Reddit comments and posts related to automation, mainly around these tools and categories: no-code integration tools (Make, Zapier, n8n, etc.), assistant-style products (Fathom, Fireflies, Airtap), and common AI tools like Claude. I wanted to figure out one thing: what automation scenarios do users really care about, and what are they actually willing to pay for? From what I found, the most commonly mentioned workplace scenarios were:

• email and customer support
• meeting notes
• sales lead management
• work document handling
• content creation
• personal scheduling assistants

In everyday life, the most wanted automation scenarios were more like:

• refund and savings tracking
• helping parents schedule or book medication
• finding a restaurant and making a reservation
• weekly grocery shopping
• job search and job applications

I also kept seeing some very specific pain points when I reviewed the data again and again:

• “There’s too much spam on LinkedIn, I want a tool to filter potential leads.”
• “The 24-hour window limit and template review process in WhatsApp Business are a nightmare.”
• “I have a lot of customer data, but I don’t have time to organize it manually.”
• “Updating CRM after meetings is my biggest time sink.”
• “I want to automatically turn YouTube videos into blog posts, tweets, and summaries.”
• “80% of our content time goes into formatting and adapting for different platforms.”

I’m not sure whether all of this is useful to you, but honestly, I feel like I’ve found some direction now. I actually want to focus more on the automation scenarios people most want in daily life. If it were you, which automation scenario would you be most interested in? Hope this is helpful.

AI products are coming out so fast these days. Some of them get a lot of attention for a while, but by the time I even get around to trying them, they already feel outdated. Others build up a huge user base, then suddenly announce they’re shutting down. In the end, so many of them come and go, and only a few really become part of everyday life.

I’d love to hear which AI tools you actually use every day, and what you use them for. For example, I’ve automated the whole “what should I eat today or tomorrow?” problem, including meal planning and grocery shopping. After using it for a while, I honestly stopped wanting to think about it myself.

Personal assistants, smart home tricks, productivity tools, anything goes. I’m putting together a list of tech tools that are actually useful.

I’ve been posting in this format for a while now, and I really like seeing the process of people building projects from scratch, as well as the way people help each other validate ideas in the comments. It feels more like a place where everyone is sharing, discussing, and figuring things out together.

I’ll start: Airtap is an AI agent that can operate mobile apps like a human. You can think of Claude as more of a desktop assistant, while Airtap is more like a phone assistant. What we want to validate most right now is: if you could hand over repetitive or tedious tasks to AI, which automation scenario would you want to try first? For example:

• Amazon refunds / saving money tracking
• Setting up or booking medication for parents
• Finding a nice restaurant and making a reservation
• Weekly grocery shopping
• Keeping a Duolingo streak alive
• Job search / job applications

Hopefully we can help each other validate ideas. Your turn now ,what are you building?

What are you building this week? Drop your project, what problem it solves, your website, the question you want to validate, or just the need you’re working on. Anything’s welcome,hopefully we can help each other out a bit.

I’ll start: Airtap is an AI agent that can operate mobile apps like a human. You can think of Claude as more of a desktop assistant, while Airtap is more like a phone assistant. What we want to validate most right now is: if you could hand over repetitive or tedious tasks to AI, which automation scenario would you want to try first? For example:

• Amazon refunds / saving money tracking
• Setting up or booking medication for parents
• Finding a good restaurant and making a reservation
• Weekly grocery shopping
• Keeping a Duolingo streak alive
• Job search / job applications

Hopefully we can help each other validate ideas. Your turn,what are you building?

I keep seeing a lot of posts here that are basically just link drops, but I was hoping this thread could be a little more useful than that. So I wanted to start a discussion thread where people can share what they’re building, the main thing they’re trying to validate, or the specific kind of help they need right now. Any kind of request is welcome.

I’ll go first: Airtap is an AI agent that can operate mobile apps like a human. You could think of Claude as a desktop assistant, and Airtap as a phone assistant. Right now, the main thing we’re trying to validate is: if you could hand off repetitive, annoying tasks to AI, what would you want it to handle first? A few examples:

• Amazon refunds / savings tracking
• Helping parents set up or book medication
• Finding a nice restaurant and making the reservation
• Weekly grocery shopping
• Keeping a Duolingo streak alive
• Job search / applications

Hopefully this thread can be useful for everyone. Your turn, what are you building?

A few weeks ago, I saw a post in this subreddit about “unusual ways you use AI that most people don’t.” There were a lot of interesting ideas in the comments, but I didn’t see anything quite like what I’m doing. I tried this for about half a month, and I finally decided to share it. Short version: I’m using AI to automate meal planning for my family. The reason is simple we kept running into the same problem: we never knew what to eat. So I started experimenting with automation tools. On desktop, I use Claude, and on mobile, I use Airtap. I feed it everyone’s favorite and least favorite foods, and then it generates a full day of meals for the whole family. For each meal, the parts it can automate are basically:

1. Search for each ingredient by name
2. Pick the best match by unit price instead of sponsored ranking
3. Calculate the right quantity based on the number of servings
4. If something is out of stock, choose the closest substitute and mark it

It just sends me the total item count, estimated cost, any substitutions it made, and anything it couldn’t find. Honestly, after using it for a while, I’ve kind of stopped wanting to go back. It saves me a lot of time. I’ve mentioned it to people around me, and they think it’s pretty surprising some even don’t really trust it but I’ve been finding it genuinely useful. So, what’s the one AI automation you’ve used that made it hard to go back?

I wanted to start a small discussion thread for people to share the products, startup ideas, or questions they’re trying to validate right now. I’ve been reading a lot of posts here lately and found some really interesting ideas. Honestly, I enjoy seeing projects and business ideas from scratch more than polished products that are already finished. I’ll go first: Airtap is an AI agent that can operate mobile apps like a human. What we’re trying to validate right now is:

If you were to hand AI some of your repetitive, annoying tasks, which use case would you trust it with first? For example:

• email handling
• social media automation / publishing
• flight price comparison and booking
• automatic monitoring and reporting for sleep / fitness data
• buying limited-edition products or grabbing hard-to-get concert tickets automatically

If you want, feel free to drop your own product and what you’re trying to validate in the comments. I’ll try to check them out and give feedback too. We can help validate each other’s ideas. So, what are you building?

Hi everyone, we’ve been thinking about building a mobile AI agent that can automate everyday phone app workflows through natural language. You can think of it like this: Claude is your desktop assistant, and Airtap is your phone assistant. The main idea is not just to chat, but to actually help operate apps for you.

Because,a lot of time gets wasted on repetitive phone tasks, like: replying to a large number of emails、finding the messages that actually need a reply inside huge group chats、checking sleep quality in a health app、checking where packages are across Amazon, USPS, UPS, or FedEx、opening different apps just to keep up with daily routines.

Once we started thinking about mobile automation, we realized there are a lot of things people do every day that could probably be handled much more efficiently. For example:

Morning routine

• Email management: open Gmail or Outlook, summarize overnight emails, mark urgent ones, clear out spam/promotions, and draft replies
• News summary: pull headlines from news apps, check market updates in Yahoo Finance or Robinhood, and glance at prediction markets like Polymarket or Kalshi
• Package tracking: check Amazon, USPS, UPS, and FedEx to see what’s arriving today

Evening routine

• Baby tracking: log feeding, diaper changes, and sleep in apps like Nanit, Huckleberry, or Happiest Baby
• Set tomorrow’s alarm: check the calendar and pick the right wake-up time automatically
• Sleep and fitness sync: check Oura, Fitbit, Whoop, or Strava and make sure everything is tracked properly
• Order dinner on the way home: use DoorDash, Uber Eats, or Grubhub based on your preferences and schedule it so it arrives when you get home

We’ve been testing a lot of different use cases, and the main thing we want to understand is whether people would actually trust an AI to do these kinds of tasks on their phone. What mobile task would you automate first if an AI agent could actually use apps for you? Very much open to honest feedback. we’re still early, and we’d love to hear your most direct thoughts.

Hey everyone, We’ve been thinking about building an AI agent that does more than just chat it can actually operate apps. We’re still in the validation stage, and one use case we keep coming back to is dating apps, mainly because a lot of the work is repetitive: opening profiles, checking photos / bios / distance, and deciding who’s actually worth looking at. Our idea is to let Airtap do the first pass based on rules you set:

• look at photos, bios, distance, age, and blocked keywords
• on Hinge, prioritize more specific / personal prompts
• on Bumble, just match, no openers
• on Tinder, cap each session at 50 swipes

It would only narrow things down and report back ,it wouldn’t reply to messages or make the final decision for you. I’d genuinely love to know: would this be something you’d actually use, or does it feel a bit weird? Any feedback is welcome.

A lot of people spend 20 minutes or more every morning checking email, calendar, news, and weather. Most of that info doesn’t actually need action,it just takes time to sort through. We’re building a mobile AI agent that can simulate app actions and turn that into a short morning briefing. The first use case is pretty simple: email, calendar, news, and weather. At 6:00 AM, it would:

• summarize overnight email and flag anything that needs a reply
• check your calendar for conflicts or back-to-back meetings
• pull the top news headlines
• warn about weather that could affect your day

The goal is to only show what actually needs action, in under 200 words. The product is still early, so I’d love to hear your honest thoughts: does this actually feel useful? And if so, how much would you trust AI to handle for you in the morning?

I joined a startup team, because everyone on the team shares the same travel frustration: there’s just no time to keep checking flight apps every day. A lot of flight alert tools are too slow. Sometimes airlines or travel platforms briefly show unusually low fares or even prices caused by a system bug. Those mistake fares usually only last for a very short time, and by the time you notice them, they’re already gone. So we started thinking about building a mobile AI agent, tentatively called Airtap. Instead of just sending alerts, it would try to operate the phone more like a human: compare prices across platforms, monitor low fares, and handle the next step when it finds something unusual. The rough workflow looks like this:

• check every 3 hours and monitor Google Flights, Kayak, and Hopper
• focus on two types of deals:

round-trip international flights under $400
clearly abnormal “too good to be true” fares, like $300 to Tokyo

• cross-check prices across platforms to figure out whether it’s a real mistake fare or just a display bug on one site
• then push:

direct links
price comparisons
an assessment of whether the deal looks real

The product is still early, but the workflow feels workable. What I’m most curious about is: would people actually want something like this?

More specifically, how much would you trust an AI agent to handle just alerting you, or actually taking action for you?Thanks so much for any feedback.

Hi everyone ,
I’m building Airtap, a personal AI agent that can operate the mobile apps you already use. We’re trying to figure out whether repetitive phone tasks are actually worth paying for, or whether people would just see this as a demo. A few of the use cases we’re looking at are:

• cleaning up important overnight emails and drafting replies
• checking for calendar conflicts and preparing meeting materials
• flagging subscription charges you may want to cancel
• renewing prescriptions and arranging a pickup time
• completing airline check-in and saving the boarding pass

These tasks are small on their own, but they keep coming back and take more attention than they should. If AI could handle them reliably, that might be something people would actually use. We’re still very early, so I’d really appreciate honest feedback:

• does Airtap make sense to you right away?
• does “AI directly operating mobile apps” sound useful or risky?
• would you see this more as an automation tool, an efficiency tool, or just a demo?

If this direction doesn’t sound right, please say so directly,honest feedback would really help.

I’ll go first: Airtap is an AI agent that can operate mobile apps like a human. What we’re trying to figure out is what kinds of phone tasks people would actually trust AI to handle. If you’re building something too, feel free to leave one sentence about what you’re working on. And if possible, please also leave a quick piece of feedback for someone else’s project in the thread, so we can help each other out. I’d really appreciate any advice or suggestions on my project as well, even small ones. Your turn, what are you building?

I have an idea I’ve thought about and worked on for a while: letting AI operate a phone like a human. You give it a command, and it gives you the result. I call it Airtap. I’ve been reading a lot of posts here and came across some really good self-validation questions, so I tried answering them for myself:

• Is there interest in the idea? Yes. I’ve posted about it on Reddit before, and one of the posts got more than 50,000 views.
• Is there market demand? I think so. Early ideas around making smartphones more intelligent and automated seem to be very popular online.
• Have I talked to real users yet? Not yet.

I have a pretty complete concept, architecture, and vision in my head, but I do not have a clear starting point. The whole thing feels too big and hard to break down. So I wanted to ask for help from this community. Any advice or personal experience would be greatly appreciated.

Hey Reddit, this feels a little awkward to say, but my last startup failed, and now I’ve joined a small team building an AI automation product called Airtap. But before I go any further, I honestly want this community’s real feedback. This isn’t my first time trying to build something. At my first startup, I mostly built products based on my own interests, learned by watching how other people set up websites and landing pages, and put a lot of money into it only to fail. I don’t want to make the same mistake again, and I genuinely hope we do better this time. What we’re building is a product that lets AI operate a phone like a human would. It can help reply to emails, handle spam, and sort through flights, restaurants, or concert tickets.

My original idea was simple: if a human can do something on a phone, AI should be able to do it too. What I really want to know is: what tasks would you actually trust AI to handle for you? What’s the smallest phone task you’d be willing to let AI do?

Really appreciate any honest feedback I’m truly grateful.

10 days ago, I posted here about Airtap getting 50k views on Reddit and almost no conversions. At first it was really more of a venting post, but I didn’t expect it to turn into something that would bring in 50+ useful pieces of feedback over time. For a small team with no budget, you probably know how much that means. Honestly, it moved our whole team. We shared a bunch of use cases, like:

• cleaning up important overnight emails and drafting replies
• checking calendar conflicts before the day starts
• renewing prescriptions in a pharmacy app
• completing airline check-in and saving the boarding pass
• checking subscription charges and flagging ones to cancel

A lot of people seemed pretty uncomfortable with anything involving money, which came through clearly in the comments. One reply from a mom stood out to us she said she could imagine using Airtap to auto reply to messages from her kid’s kindergarten teacher. That was actually a use case we hadn’t really thought about ourselves. So we wanted to ask here: what’s the smallest phone task you’d actually trust AI to handle for you? Really appreciate any honest feedback.

We’ve been testing a small phone-automation prototype. What keeps coming up isn’t whether it can click through screens . it’s figuring out what people would actually trust an AI to handle. A few examples we’ve been looking at:

• cleaning up important overnight emails and drafting replies
• checking calendar conflicts before the day starts
• renewing prescriptions in a pharmacy app
• completing airline check-in and saving the boarding pass
• checking subscription charges and flagging ones to cancel

We’re calling the prototype Airtap, but I’m more curious about the trust boundary itself: What’s the smallest phone task you’d actually hand to an AI?

And which of the examples above feels realistic vs. still too risky?

I’ve posted a few times before. At first, I didn’t expect much ,our product isn’t on the App Store or Google Play, and we only made a simple website, so I didn’t really have a place to promote it.

But last week, one of my posts got 50,000 views (if the moderators need any data to verify this, I’m happy to provide it). That was honestly unbelievable. We got feedback from founders that we never would have thought of ourselves things like how to convert users, how to shorten decision-making time, and why view time may matter more than view count.

I’m really grateful for that. For the first time after building this product for a full year, it felt like someone was actually paying attention.

Our idea is actually very simple: if a person can do something on a phone, Airtap should be able to help with it too. For example, ordering food, buying tickets, choosing gifts, or handling the repetitive app-tapping tasks people do every day. We want to build something that doesn’t make users learn a new tool - instead, it helps automate the apps they’re already using.

But that traffic didn’t really stay. So while our team was excited, we also started feeling a kind of anxiety we hadn’t felt before: just because someone notices you doesn’t mean you have users.

So I wanted to ask the community: how do you take the very first step from attention to actual users? And more broadly, would you trust AI to directly operate your phone?

We’re still a small team and genuinely looking for advice, so I’d really appreciate any honest feedback.