Thread by @lennysan

Everyone should be using Claude Code more

PMs, marketers, designers, founders, parents. Everyone.

The trick is to forget that it’s called Claude Code and instead think of it as Claude Local or Claude Agent. It’s essentially a super-intelligent AI running locally, able to do stuff directly on your computer—from organizing your files and folders to brainstorming domain names, summarizing customer calls, to enhancing image quality, creating Linear tickets, and so much more.

Here are 50 creative ways non-technical people are using Claude Code in their work and life, to inspire your own thinking. This list includes my own favorite use cases, and many examples y’all shared with me 👇

1. Clearing space on my computer.

Prompt: “How can I clear some storage on my computer?”

Then, discuss your options.

2. Improving the image quality of screenshots

Prompt: “Improve the image quality of [filename]”.

I used this many times for the screenshots in this thread.

3. Downloading YouTube videos

Prompt: “Download this YouTube video: [URL]”.

Then I ignored all the warnings 🤫

(Keep reading, but here's a quick guide on how to install Claude Code in a few minutes so that you can try this stuff at home)
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4. Downloading all of the images embedded inside a Google Doc

Prompt: “Download all of the images in high-res from this Google Doc: [URL]”.

This paired well with item #2.

5. Picking a random raffle winner from a Google Sheet of submissions

Prompt: “Pick a random row from this Google Sheet to select a winner for a giveaway.”

I used this for a recent Sora 2 giveaway in our subscriber Slack community.

6. Brainstorming domain names, from @benaiad

“Just describe your project, and it’ll suggest creative options across multiple TLDs (.com, .io, .dev, etc.) while verifying what’s actually available to register.”

7. Finding high-quality sales leads, from Jeff Lindquist

“I literally just typed: look at what I’m building and identify the top 5 companies in my area that would be good for a pilot for this. Then I go to LinkedIn and message them. If it’s not clear, I do this in the source directory of the code of my app so the first thing it does is figure out what it is that I’m building.”

8. Noticing when you’re avoiding conflict, from @danshipper

“I download all of my meeting recordings, put them in a folder, and ask Claude Code to tell me all of the times I’ve subtly avoided conflict.”

9. Figuring out why your computer is running slow, from @AnthonyRoux_

“I sometimes use Claude Code for system diagnostics when my Mac slows down.I use it to check load averages, memory pressure, disk space, stuck processes, and swap activity, then it dives deeper to find what’s actually causing issues. It can calculate cache sizes, check Docker usage, find Time Machine snapshots eating space, etc.

It is usually faster and more user-friendly than running all the commands and trying to extract the right numbers myself. It can explain what the analyses mean and why they matter, and suggests fixes with the actual commands while assessing the risk of running each of them.”

10. Cleaning up messy invoice files, from @majroth

“I use Claude Code to sort my invoices for taxes. It reads each file in a messy folder, renames it to ‘YYYY-MM-DD Vendor - Invoice - ProductOrService.pdf’, and moves it into the right folder.”

For the rest, here's the full post with 40 more examples. Here's a peek. lennysnewsletter.com/p/everyone-sho…

A big thank you to @danshipper for opening my eyes to this, and the 500+ of you who shared your stories. 🙏