What I used AI for this week
A roundup of how I used AI for groceries, research, motion videos, course signups, a house-portrait shop, and a digital-footprint audit.
By Mollie Amkraut Mueller · · 5 min read
This week’s newsletter is a little grab bag of what I’ve been doing with AI recently. Hope it inspires you to try something new!
Groceries by voice
We've been an in-store grocery shopping family for forever. But recently on a trip, I witnessed a friend put a messy list of grocery suggestions from the group into DoorDash's AI bot and receive a ready-to-order shopping cart. So I had to try it.
Fast forward two weeks and I've signed up for Whole Foods delivery ($10/month subscription). My new standard process is this:
- Voice mode brain dump things we need into ChatGPT and say "add to my Whole Foods cart"
- Give ChatGPT the link to 1–2 recipes I want to make and say "add the stuff we don't already have to my Whole Foods cart"
- Review the cart and hit purchase. Groceries show up same day.
This has been great for me, a perpetually last-minute planner. ChatGPT does a good job of guessing what we already have in the pantry/fridge and asking me to verify. It's also easy to say "I want to double the recipe" and it'll adjust. And while grocery delivery isn't free, I'm already wondering why we spent so much time driving to the supermarket.
Taking action against gun violence
A recent doomscrolling Instagram session got me upset, angry, and then activated to do my part to prevent gun violence. I had no idea where to start so I took it to ChatGPT (on my phone, one-handed, while feeding the baby). I ended up with several concrete ideas that met my time constraints and leveraged my skills, and I'm currently pursuing them.
I shared a list of prompts on LinkedIn if you want to do the same.
More Opus 5.5 videos
I'm obsessed with making 30-second motion graphic videos using Opus 5.5. Now, for anything I build, whether it's a fun Bake Off app or my new course, I'll create a video to explain/share it.
I always start with some version of this simple prompt:
"Make a dynamic 30-second motion graphics video for my great british bakeoff fantasy app that shows what an incredible motion designer you are, like it's your showreel for a résumé. go all out."
And I'll give it the link to the website, document, or thing I want it to showcase.
It's not amazing 100% of the time, I abort many of the videos cuz I'm too lazy to make them better, but I've gotten some awesome gems:
- Bake Off fantasy league — 30-second demo
- Opportunity Scout — 51-second preview
- AI Workflow Diagnostic — 15-second overview
- Villain Profile — 30-second video on LinkedIn
Course signup, automated
I built the website and automated the signup flow for my new course. Buyers now land on the website, purchase via a button leading to a Stripe payment page, automatically get calendar invites, and a few days later an email suggesting they bring a friend.
I did all of this by chatting to ChatGPT (GPT 6.1 - Sol, Extra High). I just said things like "automate it so when someone buys, they auto get the right calendar invites". And it did the work.
I rarely go to the Lovable website anymore. I've connected Lovable with ChatGPT and Claude so I just chat with them and they do the building in Lovable for me and send me preview links to review.
A house-portrait business
I'm loving creating beautiful framed house portraits, and with the holidays coming up, I'm trying my hand at an online gift shop.
I had ChatGPT create the website (using Lovable) and build out the payment flows. The artwork is AI-generated and approved by the buyer before shipping.
More than once, my AI business coaches (Claude & ChatGPT) told me this is a classic low-priority, not-business-aligned Mollie distraction. I ignored them 🤪.
Auditing my digital footprint
Last week was full of scary news headlines about big scale hacks and IT risk. I wasn't impacted but figured it was a good time to do some hygiene.
Here's the prompt I put into ChatGPT (GPT 6.1 Sol Extra High):
- go through my email and find all the services i’ve signed up for (including the ones i forgot about)
- use @-Browser or @-Computer to look through my connected apps and projects for old keys, unused integrations, and anything that could expose my data
- check my AI data. old connectors i don’t need anymore
- check my repos for vulnerable dependencies
- put it all in a google sheet i can comment on, with what’s at risk, how urgent it is, and what i should do
Once I had the list, I typed "Which of these can you do for me?" And then approved its suggestions.
That's a sample of what I've been up to.
A few things I'm looking forward to playing with:
Claude Duet
This is Claude's new agent/assistant. Its answer to ChatGPT's Dots, Meta's Muse, GrokBot, etc.
I got access a few days ago and have been dabbling, but haven't gone deep yet. Partly because I've been living in ChatGPT for a while and need to figure out what I use Duet for vs. keep in my other agents.
Reactions I'm seeing from AI people online are mixed. Some love it, some aren't changing their flows for it. I'll report back on my own findings.
Lovable’s new marketing tools
Lovable announced they can now help you create a growth plan, make marketing assets, and launch Google and Meta ads. As someone who enjoys making things and then remembers I also have to sell them, this has my attention. I’m curious how useful its recommendations will be for a small business like mine and how much of the creation and operations it can actually do. And do well.
That's my roundup! My inbox is open if you have questions or want to share what you've been playing with lately!
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Until next time,
Mollie