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This week we're bragging about 5 humans who built their own creative AI hacks at home:
| • | Martin and Tomas Rosinski, two brothers who built an AI cat door 🐭 to keep mice out of the house |
| • | John Tse, an engineer who made an umbrella that flies over your head ☂️ |
| • | Alix Anfang, a mom who built an AI app that reads her kids' school emails 📬 for her |
| • | Plus… Sammy Azdoufal, who tried to steer his vacuum with a PS5 controller and ended up with a 7,000-robot army 🤖 in 24 countries |
Who doesn’t love a good life hack?
When I was a kid, "hacking" your life meant hiding the TV remote in the same spot every night so you'd never lose it 📺
Now everyone's building clever fixes with AI… some of them are pretty wild and I love it!!
 | Let's get into today's bragging! — Adam |
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Psst… keep scrolling for some cat-sized prizes 🤫🐱
Bragging ABOUT:
Two brothers who built an AI cat door to keep rogue mice out of the house 🐭
Ever woken up to an unwanted "present" from your cat? 😹🐭 (I have lol)
Scientists at the Smithsonian estimate cats in the US catch between 6 and 22 BILLION mammals every year… some of which get delivered right to your kitchen floor.
Martin Rosinski's cat Jinx was one of those sneaky little hunters (her record was three mice and a bird in one night!! 😳). So Martin and his brother Tomas Rosinski from Northumberland, England, devised a creative solution to stop the midnight mouse madness
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Scientists at the Smithsonian estimate cats in the US catch between 6 and 22 BILLION mammals every year… some of which get delivered right to your kitchen floor.
Martin Rosinski's cat Jinx was one of those sneaky little hunters (her record was three mice and a bird in one night!! 😳). So Martin and his brother Tomas Rosinski from Northumberland, England, devised a creative solution to stop the midnight mouse madness
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Their company OnlyCat has already made
over £2 million in sales (about $2.6M), and the brothers even landed a £200,000 deal on the UK version of Shark Tank, Dragons' Den.
(You can buy an OnlyCat here - not sponsored)
Martin and Tomas… what a creative way to outsmart a cat!! 👏👏👏
(You can buy an OnlyCat here - not sponsored)
Martin and Tomas… what a creative way to outsmart a cat!! 👏👏👏
Bragging ABOUT:
A Canadian engineer who used AI vision to build an umbrella that follows you
Ever been caught in THIS unfortunate situation before?👇
One survey found nearly 1 in 5 people get caught in the rain without an umbrella 🌧️ and over half said it's because they forgot it.
So John Tse, a Canadian engineer who runs the YouTube channel I Build Stuff, decided it was time to reinvent the umbrella. I mean... why hold one yourself when you could make it FLY over your head instead?! 😹🤯
Pretty smart thinking!!
One survey found nearly 1 in 5 people get caught in the rain without an umbrella 🌧️ and over half said it's because they forgot it.
So John Tse, a Canadian engineer who runs the YouTube channel I Build Stuff, decided it was time to reinvent the umbrella. I mean... why hold one yourself when you could make it FLY over your head instead?! 😹🤯
Pretty smart thinking!!
A 3D camera locks onto your head, and a tiny microcomputer tells the drone where to fly so it stays right above you. Who needs hands anyway??
Bragger, I wanna know:
Bragger, I wanna know:
Would YOU walk around with a flying umbrella?
Bragging ABOUT:
A mom who missed her kid’s school pickup… so she built an AI app to make sure it never happens again
*Not sponsored 🐱
Parents, you can probably relate to this scenario.
According to one survey, parents get ~20 school and kid emails a WEEK 😵💫 Field trip reminders, permission slips, schedule changes and a million other things you're somehow expected to keep track of.
No wonder 62% of parents in that survey said they've missed something important buried in their inbox!!
According to one survey, parents get ~20 school and kid emails a WEEK 😵💫 Field trip reminders, permission slips, schedule changes and a million other things you're somehow expected to keep track of.
No wonder 62% of parents in that survey said they've missed something important buried in their inbox!!
Just ask Alix Anfang, a mom of two from New York. She missed ONE email about
early dismissal and wasn't there to pick up her 7-year-old 😬 Every parent's nightmare!
So just like any regular mom on a Tuesday night (okay, maybe not EVERY mom 😹), Alix pulled up Claude and she built an app to keep track of her kids' school emails FOR her.
How cool is that??
Now instead of digging through dozens of emails, Alix's AI-powered app sends parents one short morning summary with everything they need to know that day.
She's even turned it into a real business with hundreds of paying parents!
Alix… you're such a cool mom!! 🫡📬
Alix… you're such a cool mom!! 🫡📬
Bragging ABOUT:
A guy who used AI to drive his vacuum with a PS5 controller… and accidentally took control of 7,000 robot vacuums
Sammy Azdoufal is the head of AI strategy at a vacation rental company, and all he wanted was to drive his new robot vacuum around with a PS5 controller. So he had Claude Code help him figure out how the vacuum talks to DJI's servers, and he pulled out his vacuum's private login key.
Then Sammy's laptop started getting messages from robot vacuums he'd never seen. In living rooms he'd never been in. In countries he'd never visited 😳
In just a few minutes, Sammy's laptop detected ~6,700 DJI devices across 24 countries. He could steer them 🚗, see through their cameras 👀, hear through their mics 🎤, and even watch the robot vacuums map people's homes 🏠
But Sammy, being one of the good guys, reported it so DJI could lock down the vulnerability (and DJI paid him $30,000 for spotting it!!)
Way to make the internet a little safer, Sammy! 👏👏👏
But Sammy, being one of the good guys, reported it so DJI could lock down the vulnerability (and DJI paid him $30,000 for spotting it!!)
Way to make the internet a little safer, Sammy! 👏👏👏
Look what the cat bragged in.
Which story's got you feline impressed? 🐈
Bragging you can do this weekend:
One thing I LOVE about AI is that you can “hack” pretty much anything you want… your inbox, your umbrella, even your cat 😹
Just look at the humans we bragged about today!
Martin and Tomas used AI to stop their cat from bringing dead mice into the house 🐭
John turned a drone and a camera into a hands-free umbrella ☂️
Alix used Claude to build an app that keeps track of important school emails
Sammy used AI to control his vacuum with a PS5 controller… and accidentally uncovered a security flaw affecting thousands of robot vacuums
Your mission this weekend (if you choose to accept it! 🕵️): find one everyday problem or tiny annoyance and see if AI can help you hack it.
Maybe it's a hack for doing your laundry, or a tool that reminds you to water your plants before they turn crispy. 🪴
I bet AI can do it!!
Then hit reply and tell me what you tried… I read every one 🧡
 Adam Bragg |
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 Bragging about cool stuff humans are doing on the internet. |