As described in the source, someone instructed Replit Agent to build the full app. The agent scraped American Kennel Club regional population data to set dog rarity values for catches. App was completed as a dog-themed catch-em-all experience.
Small, repetitive tasks eat more of the week than anyone likes to admit. Cases like this show an agent taking a chore off someone's plate end to end, not just suggesting what to do. It is one of 196 sightings filed under Productivity on Agent Sightings (number 33 by interest), and one of 24 involving Replit Agent.
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into Replit Agent or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
Help me build a Pokemon-style dog collecting app. Break it into steps, show your work, and wait for confirmation before anything irreversible, paid, or outbound.
Tip: Start small: run it once on a low-stakes example, read what the agent did, and only then let it run on real work.
Build an AI to-do list web app in 9 hours· Replit Agent · Productivity One sitting with Replit’s Agent V2 stretched from first prompt to a working AI to-do web app—call it a long workday, roughly nine hours on the clock.
Build a multilingual typing app for language learning· Replit Agent · Productivity A published walkthrough shows lingoType, a typing app for learning languages, was created as a result of a buildathon participant's use of Replit…
Build a buy-order imbalance scanner· Replit Agent · Productivity From the linked report, a representative of Replit created a functional buy order imbalance scanner powered by demo credits, as stated by the agent.
Watch weekly deals and buy regular items· Grok Bot · Productivity Observed in the wild: the setup used two separate bots: Deals checked weekly for discounts on repeat purchases like energy drinks and cat supplies…
Build and submit a family quest app to the App Store· Replit Agent · Home & Family Observed in the wild: someone, a mother of three with no prior coding experience, partnered with Replit Agent to develop Kogoto Quest from initial…
Build a budgeting app from a single prompt· Replit Agent · Finance As described in the source, as an early test of Replit Agent, The builder gave it one long prompt describing a budgeting tool: monthly budgets per…