Chat your way to a TV home screen with live game-day scores and a family dashboard
Without writing code, he chatted with Grok Bot to build his own TV home screen with live game-day scores, a family dashboard, a finance dashboard and a daily Kindle newsletter for the house, run by a small team of bots.
Source
@peteoconnell on X · 2026-10-19
Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-20.
What they did
Without writing code, he chatted with Grok Bot to build his own TV home screen with live game-day scores, a family dashboard, a finance dashboard and a daily Kindle newsletter for the house, run by a small team of bots.
Result (as claimed)
All built by chatting, he says; no coding.
Tools they used
Cost: Grok Bot: from $30/mo.
Set it up
Define the job
Say exactly what you want done and what the agent may and may not do on your behalf.
Share only what is needed
Give Grok Bot the minimum files or access required. Avoid sharing passwords in chat when a safer login flow exists.
Review the plan
Ask the agent to show its plan or draft before it acts, and approve each step that has real consequences.
Check the result
Confirm the outcome yourself (order placed, request sent, document understood) and keep a record.
Copy the full setup prompt
Paste into your agent and it will walk you through the setup, asking before anything that sends, posts or spends.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Claude Code. Goal: Chat your way to a TV home screen with live game-day scores and a family dashboard What the original author did: Without writing code, he chatted with Grok Bot to build his own TV home screen with live game-day scores, a family dashboard, a finance dashboard and a daily Kindle newsletter for the house, run by a small team of bots. Reported result (as claimed by the author): All built by chatting, he says; no coding. Source: https://x.com/peteoconnell/status/2112241217979191609 Tools they used: Grok Bot, Kindle Category: Personal & life Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Codex. Goal: Chat your way to a TV home screen with live game-day scores and a family dashboard What the original author did: Without writing code, he chatted with Grok Bot to build his own TV home screen with live game-day scores, a family dashboard, a finance dashboard and a daily Kindle newsletter for the house, run by a small team of bots. Reported result (as claimed by the author): All built by chatting, he says; no coding. Source: https://x.com/peteoconnell/status/2112241217979191609 Tools they used: Grok Bot, Kindle Category: Personal & life Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Grok Bot. Goal: Chat your way to a TV home screen with live game-day scores and a family dashboard What the original author did: Without writing code, he chatted with Grok Bot to build his own TV home screen with live game-day scores, a family dashboard, a finance dashboard and a daily Kindle newsletter for the house, run by a small team of bots. Reported result (as claimed by the author): All built by chatting, he says; no coding. Source: https://x.com/peteoconnell/status/2112241217979191609 Tools they used: Grok Bot, Kindle Category: Personal & life Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
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