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A coastline photo used in the GeoGuess challenge

Can AI do it?

Can AI find where a photo was taken, with no GPS?

Five photos, metadata removed. All five must land within 50 km.

I used Claude to make

An app that ruins shopping

Prices turned into hours of your life. The app is free to use.

A perfume bottle generated from one photo

Transformation

One product photo, a whole ad

Free models on one PC, including the shot that failed.

Built on camera, yours to use

True Cost

Type what you earn and what something costs. See the price in hours of work.

Open the app

Neon Climb

The arcade game Claude wrote in 2 minutes 49 seconds. Runs in any browser.

Play it

Take the lab home

Visit the shop

Free app

Photo Check

See the hidden location, time and device inside a photo, then download a clean copy.

Check a photo

Free

5 prompts that make a real app

Paste one into Claude, get a working app for your phone. See exactly what each one made.

Get the prompts

$249 pilot

Product ad, done for you

3 AI shots of your real product, cut into a 10–15 second ad. Pilot price for our first 3 clients.

Book a spot

What should AI try next?

Send a challenge. If we run it, you're credited in the episode.

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