Field notes on what people actually ask their Instinct to do. Community-made, not affiliated with Instinct.
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Personal assistants can finally do things for us. Book, chase, dispute, renew.
Nobody's written the manual yet. So we're writing it together.
Welcome to Instinct Hunt: a field guide to what people actually ask their Instinct to do. 🧵
A recipe in a YouTube Short is hard to cook from.
Shakir sent @instinct the video. It worked out the steps, checked the quantities against a matching written recipe, and saved it all as one page.
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In a fantasy football league? Ask @instinct for a roast after every gameweek.
Shakir's Instinct turns the scores, captain picks and bench mistakes into a roast for each manager.
Who in your league gets it first?
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Where does the day go? @_subhashkashyap found out.
10-day time audit: Instinct pinged every 2 hours, he replied by voice, it logged each block. Now: clear reporting on best hours to work and other insights.
Logging got a serious upgrade with @instinct
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instinct has worked tirelessly and so far gotten me $10k in various startup credit grants across Google, OpenRouter, ElevenLabs, etc
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saw a shirt at a store in nyc but didn't like the color, so asked instinct to track down any available inventory in the color i wanted as long as i could get it before i flew back to india. it found, bought and had it delivered to my doorstep within a couple of days
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Few use cases that I absolutely love using
1) reminds me and orders flowers periodically for my wife. 100/100 points I get these days
2) helps me when shopping, whatever I like at a shop, it finds pricing in nearby online stores.
3) keeps a track of all home equipment documents and what maintenance is covered or what I need to pay extra for
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I use Instinct:
watches fares, hunts promo codes, tracks points, checks car fines, runs rent-vs-buy, checks what I can afford, finds forgotten charges, logs warranties, reads policies, files receipts, briefs me before calls, groups photos and shares with family, files reimbursements, tracks podcasts to listen to, creates YT playlists, analyses my conversational tone, tracks overcharging while car servicing - Can go on and on :)
1/n Rs 3.2 lakh of certificates, rejected. The rebuilt plan cost Rs 0.
Three people learning with Instinct 🧵
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3/n "My Urdu sounds translated."
So Instinct started sending two couplets a day, with meanings and word-by-word breakdowns, plus a clean dated copy to keep.
from Shakir
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4/n Asked for a plan to become an AI product manager, Instinct first suggested Rs 3.2 lakh of certificates. Utkarsh said no.
It rebuilt it at Rs 0: 10 to 12 weeks of free material, every stage ending in real work for their own startup.
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I've created a workflow where my mom gives her grocery order to Instinct. Her Instinct then coordinates with mine to place the order. The issue is that payment requires an OTP from me every time, I don't have an Amex card so OTP doesnt come on email. What are my options to remove
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Instinct just renewed my car insurance at 20% cheaper.
Took a bit of fiddling but I'd say it did 90% of the work, I did 10%.
I recognize not everyone is as patient for janky not quite 100% automated experiences.
But agents are magic.
Kudos @noahrshinn especially considering this was a UK insurance package for a UK car.
Such a valid use case. I was just thinking getting my parents on @Truecaller plan. I better get them on instinct too stat.
an underrated use case for AI agents: protecting technophobes from scams
yesterday, Instinct helped my mom lock down her gmail
the other day, it flagged phishing emails before she clicked into them
if your parents aren't using an AI agent, get them one for this security layer alone
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Curly hair, and no specialist nearby.
Instinct ranked the real ones further out, checked live booking prices, and caught a chain charging more than it advertised. Then it found the first open slot at the top pick.
spotted by @kailashmathur02 in India
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Nobody registers their warranties. This Instinct does, the day the box arrives.
Three this month, proof on file. When one turned up dented: "send a claim, it's the one you registered."
What admin do you keep putting off?
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409 entries. About 719 guests. Seven handwritten pages, in two scripts.
Instinct read a wedding guest list from handwritten photos, added it up, and flagged 102 entries with no headcount and 121 readings it wasn't sure of.
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1/n What happens when your assistant can message your friends' assistants?
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3/n A friend's agent sent over a full fantasy football squad to apply. Instinct held off. It flagged the injured players, found the plan 0.8m over budget and laid out three fixes.
from @nrmlrah
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4/n @_subhashkashyap dropped ~50 trip photos and videos in chat. Instinct built a 25-slide story, fixed the videos that wouldn't play, then sent it to eight friends, through their agents.
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