Observation board
Observe what people actually want bots to do.
Lenny × Grok Bot · gen-002 · 2026-08-30 00:18 America/Toronto · P1 · P2
1Run a small software team of bots: implement, review PRs, watch GitHub/prod errors, debug, ship.51unclear
Task
Delegate implementation, review, scans, and deploy; ping only for decisions.
Scene
Builders who want the repo moving while they are away.
Sources
2Own SEO, newsletters, backlinks, social scheduling, or a content-engine factory — including properties without public APIs.29unclear
Task
Find keywords, draft, submit backlinks, schedule posts, clip long-form.
Scene
Operators replacing a marketing tool or a thin content team.
Sources
3Find leads, book first calls, keep outreach moving (including recruiting for yourself).24unclear
Task
Search posts/comments; draft outreach; schedule the first call.
Scene
Founders and job-seekers who stall on email tennis.
Sources
4Co-build a product, studio, or site: keep brief memory, GTM, and keep the project moving.23unclear
Task
Remember what worked; turn messy ideas into tasks, PRDs, or story beats.
Scene
Solo or tiny teams who re-explain the product every session.
Sources
5Chief of staff / EA: inbox, calendar, notes, group-chat planning — human only sees decisions.18unclear
Task
Triage email, keep calendar, extract actions, turn group-chat chaos into a plan.
Scene
Busy operators and friend-groups whose PM is unpaid.
Sources
6Back office for a small real-world business: bookings, inventory, WhatsApp inbox, shop-floor SOPs, trucking loads, cafe/bakery/condo admin.18hope
Task
Check bookings, watch equipment, handle admin so the owner can do the craft.
Scene
Trade and local-service owners without a back office.
Sources
7Study partner for papers, lab reports, class schedules, exam courses, or a personal research log.16hope
Task
Unpack papers, drill concepts, manage experiment notes, or keep a class bot per subject.
Scene
Learners without a cohort, or a student drowning in admin.
Sources
8Run household/kindergarten ops: school, shopping, prescriptions, family recaps, special-ed paperwork.14hope
Task
Turn school messages and family admin into a weekly plan and nudges.
Scene
Parents carrying the household mental load, including a special-ed teacher's paperwork.
Sources
9A life OS: keep track of work, reading, health, trips, and personal projects, and keep working in the background.13unclear
Task
Hold the whole list; nudge; run quiet experiments on wasted time.
Scene
People with ADHD or too many parallel lives whose memory is the bottleneck.
Sources
10Thought partner for half-formed ideas: stress-test, research the rabbit hole, decide if it is worth building.13unclear
Task
Take a messy idea through critique and research to a go/no-go.
Scene
People with too many half-ideas, or who need a no-person.
Sources
11Inbox for screenshots, voice notes, bookmarks, wearables, and thoughts that become a day's tasks and follow-ups.12unclear
Task
Capture messy input all day; return a structured plan or canonical notes.
Scene
Operators whose day is client work plus ideas plus follow-ups.
Sources
12Automate food ops: meal plans, shopping lists, grocery orders, recipes, calorie/macro tracking.12unclear
Task
Plan meals, order groceries, track prices.
Scene
Households repeating the same food admin weekly.
Sources
13Kid learning/play: research their current fascination, assemble activities, tutors, or a clean game.12hope
Task
Track interests; find activities, videos, local events, tutors, or a no-junk game.
Scene
Parents who want enrichment without becoming a full-time researcher.
Sources
14Plan and operate travel: itineraries, points, local-language bookings, ski go/no-go, or a pilot layover.12hope
Task
Research, book, brief, or rebuild the trip from email and photos.
Scene
People who currently tab-explode trip planning.
Sources
15Watch holdings/markets (or run DCF/LBO/trading research) and explain impact.11unclear
Task
Track positions and news; run models; suggest adjustments; morning digest.
Scene
People with real positions who cannot sit a terminal all day.
Sources
16Use the computer: research, fill forms, keep logins, complete errands from one ask.10hope
Task
Browse, authenticate where allowed, complete the workflow.
Scene
Anyone whose to-do list is a pile of websites.
Sources
17List, negotiate, and ship unwanted stuff, a kid's 3D-print shop, or collectibles.10unclear
Task
Choose the channel, write the listing, handle messages, organize shipping.
Scene
Households sitting on inventory they will not admin.
Sources
18Brief what matters on X (threads, paywalled substance, daily news, feed scans) and suggest what to build or say.10unclear
Task
Scan, cluster, write a short briefing plus optional drafts; rebuild paywalled substance from public sources.
Scene
People who cannot scroll and still need the plot.
Sources
19Find distribution: mentions, bookmarks-to-daily-plan, first users, competitor conversations on X.10unclear
Task
Scan X/LinkedIn; summarize; nudge when to join a thread.
Scene
Builders who can ship but cannot live in social.
Sources
20Generate and operate video/podcast/art with less human in the loop.10unclear
Task
Drive ComfyUI, clip long-form, run a channel or podcast pipeline, get art into the world.
Scene
Creators blocked on render, edit ops, or distribution.
Sources
21Shop or order with constraints (allergy, budget, stock, wishlist ceiling) including PC parts and appliances.9hope
Task
Find, compare, hold a cart, ping for one-tap approval.
Scene
People who lose 20 minutes per errand or never want to open a shopping app again.
Sources
22Maker/hardware pipeline: 3D print, sensors, robot arm, music engraving, IoT, or a bricked appliance.9hope
Task
Fix settings, convert files, extract sim data, or revive bricked hardware.
Scene
Makers who stall on the software around the machine.
Sources
23Orchestrate a staff of specialized bots with a supervisor that delegates and compiles.7unclear
Task
Stand up named roles; route work; present a briefing.
Scene
People already running (or wanting) a bot org chart.
Sources
24Take clinic/research admin off a clinician, or watch medical/biotech literature so care and studies can proceed.6unclear
Task
Automate admin; parse data; check a first-time-user EHR path.
Scene
Clinicians drowning in non-clinical work.
Sources
25Search listings, evaluate land/deals, or run an appraiser's comps/taxes pipeline.6hope
Task
Watch listing sites; pull assessing data; place comps; brief the couple.
Scene
Home-seekers and appraisal shops tired of portal spam and 16-hour days.
Sources
26Coordinate elder-care logistics, emails, bills, and a tech companion for seniors.5hope
Task
Track care tasks; remind on bills; write big-print tech instructions.
Scene
Families building systems around aging parents.
Sources
27Monitor health stats and produce the next day's plan (sleep, steps, calories, training, nutrition).5unclear
Task
Sync wearables/logs; update a plan to stay on a goal.
Scene
People who fall off a health spreadsheet.
Sources
28Hunt money leaks, sort receipts, classify bank transactions, catch subscription renewals, file warranties.5unclear
Task
Connect transactions or camera-roll receipts; flag waste; queue a yes/no.
Scene
Households with subscription sprawl or a shoebox of receipts.
Sources
29Reconstruct decisions and load-bearing assumptions; ping when they decay or a bet was wrong.4unclear
Task
Write the decision, killed options, owner, revisit date; recheck weekly.
Scene
Product orgs where decisions evaporate after the meeting.
Sources
30IT support / MSP: triage tickets, scan the knowledge base, first response, easy fixes, docs.4hope
Task
Own L1/L2; escalate with a draft; keep documentation.
Scene
Tiny IT teams and people giving free MSP to charities.
Sources
31Scan internships/jobs on a schedule, tailor resume/projects, and apply.4hope
Task
Twice-daily scan; update resume; apply; handle repetitive school/job admin.
Scene
Students and job-seekers who cannot refresh boards at 8am.
Sources
32A daily language-learning partner: quizzes, Anki/FSRS, TTS, handwriting, translate while you sleep.4hope
Task
Build lessons, quiz, spaced-repeat, generate audio.
Scene
Learners who used Duolingo every day and still forgot.
Sources
33Meeting memory: transcripts to tasks/CRM, and a bot you can query about any meeting.4already
Task
Ingest notes; create tickets; answer what-did-we-say.
Scene
Operators who live in meetings and lose follow-up.
Sources
34Help a nonprofit with grants, infra, event CMS, or ops continuity (including a wellness retreat).4hope
Task
Find grants, review infra, post events from a PDF, keep services from being interrupted.
Scene
Tiny nonprofit staff and boards.
Sources
35Find a niche, make a digital product, test monetization from $0, or run a one-idea-a-day experiment.4hope
Task
Research, produce, list, iterate.
Scene
People who want a side-income experiment.
Sources
36Fantasy GM: research, waivers, trades, start/sit with league context.3unclear
Task
Read the league and news; ping before locks; propose moves.
Scene
League managers who lose to news they saw too late.
Sources
37Sort inbound calls/messages for a law firm, or file a small-claims path.3hope
Task
Answer, classify, file, or assemble a claims packet.
Scene
Small practices that miss calls, or a homeowner chasing a contractor/insurer.
Sources
38Sit outside other agents, review tool calls before they fire, write incident notes.3unclear
Task
Flag injection/exfil; one-page writeup.
Scene
People running agents against untrusted content.
Sources
39Control vehicles and home energy (Tesla API, Powerwall reserve, fleet precondition).3hope
Task
Use official APIs to move the car, set solar reserve, recap trips.
Scene
Owners who want phone control beyond the official app, or a house-plus-fleet system.
Sources
41After a concerning public post, privately ask if they are ok; or maintain a suicide-prevention / autism-resource project.2unclear
Task
Detect distress; send a private check-in; or curate support resources.
Scene
People watching X who are not joking about harm, or running a support project.
Sources
42Garden or greenhouse automation: watering advice, cheap motors, heat-wave care.2already
Task
Advise watering from conditions, or move motors from a phone message.
Scene
Gardeners and growers who will not buy an industrial PLC stack.
Sources
43Remember friends lives (meetings, birthdays, milestones) without doomscrolling their feeds.2unclear
Task
Log hangouts or watch social milestones; remind in time to show up.
Scene
People who left Instagram/Facebook and miss real-life moments.
Sources
44Link cheap cams/sensors, classify boar vs dog/person, alert with photo/siren.2unclear
Task
Sensor wakes camera; model classifies; push plus siren.
Scene
Rural property with crop-killing wildlife, or a house that wants a night guard.
Sources
45Personal (not classified-work) admin: military paperwork or a NASA astronaut-application plan.2hope
Task
Plan applications and personal admin the user is allowed to automate.
Scene
Service members who cannot use the bot for official work.
Sources
46Private thought-partner for being a better partner/parent, with tiny daily tips from real context.2unclear
Task
Ingest household context; produce short specific coaching, or defuse a fight.
Scene
Someone who wants better home relationships without a human coach.
Sources
47Ops for a teacher: lesson plans, slides, gamified history, Canvas/ADA checks, test evaluation.2hope
Task
Synthesize a spread-out curriculum; check the LMS; evaluate tests.
Scene
Teachers (including special-ed and college instructors) buried in prep and grading.
Sources
48Read a use-case thread and map crowded vs sharp vs unbuilt, instead of adding another idea.1hope
Task
Cluster replies; name crowding, sharpness, and gaps.
Scene
Someone who wants the map, not another pitch.
Sources
49Land a scarce government appointment, or second-guess statutory HR/onboarding forms before they get rejected.1unclear
Task
Watch booking slots; read the actual rules; flag mismatches.
Scene
People facing impossible citizen-office calendars or dense onboarding packets.
Sources
50A service to help fathers after surprise divorce: access to children plus professional support.1unclear
Task
Ideate, research, design, and execute that service.
Scene
Someone who watched fathers get lost in the fog.
Sources
51Turn frantic multilingual disaster posts into verified SOS location maps for first responders.1hope
Task
Read live X and other sources; geolocate; verify; map.
Scene
Someone watching floods or similar events who wants responders, not a timeline.
Sources
52Hands-free first-aid while both hands are busy stopping bleeding.1unclear
Task
Talk through steps without needing the screen.
Scene
An injury where the phone cannot be held.
Sources
53Watch J-1 Work and Travel Facebook groups for overstaffing, cut hours, role drift, and transfer patterns.1already
Task
Read groups; link posts into a pattern; ping before exchange breaks.
Scene
Someone who has seen cultural-exchange jobs go bad.
Sources
54Automate an adult-content storefront (named OnlyFans in the reply).1unclear
Task
Run posting/ops for that storefront.
Scene
A creator treating it as a business workflow.
Sources
55Coordinate who already fed the pet via a scan or household ping.1unclear
Task
Scan an NFC label or notify the household after feeding.
Scene
Households that double-do or skip pet tasks.
Sources
56Retirement planner covering accumulation, spend-down, tax, 401k/Roth, IRMAA.1unclear
Task
Model phases and tax hits; map a personal path.
Scene
People approaching or in retirement complexity.
Sources
57Watch kids school portals and ping about assignments, missing work, and grades.1unclear
Task
Log into school portals and send multiple daily updates.
Scene
Parents who cannot live in the portal all day.
Sources
58Ops for a youth sports coach: plans, parent updates, evals.1unclear
Task
Draft plans; message parents; record evaluations.
Scene
Volunteer or small-club coaches.
Sources
59Scan a Steam library on a schedule and ping games you do not own when taste actually shifts.1already
Task
Watch playtime and launches; recommend only on a real shift.
Scene
Players tired of storefront spam.
Sources
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Not in the ranking.
Receipts and leaks appeared; nobody described filing a tax return or talking to a tax authority as the job.gap
A citizen-office appointment in Munich appeared; visa, green card, or immigration-packet work did not.gap
Disability education and an ADA LMS check appeared; nobody asked for captions, screen-reader workflows, or a simplified-UI layer for a relative.gap
Existing-relationship coaching appeared; nobody asked for dating, intros, or a new-partner search.gap
Travel and real-estate search appeared; nobody asked for a household move (quotes, change-of-address, utility start/stop).gap
News briefings appeared; nobody asked for a ballot, precinct, or local-meeting brief.gap
Tesla/API control appeared; a service-history / inspection / registration log for a regular car did not.gap
Family ops and kid learning appeared; nobody asked to find, schedule, or pay a sitter/daycare.gap
19Find distribution: mentions, bookmarks-to-daily-plan, first users, competitor conversations on X.10unclear
Task
Scan X/LinkedIn; summarize; nudge when to join a thread.
Scene
Builders who can ship but cannot live in social.
Sources