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Install guides, usage docs, troubleshooting and FAQs for every PeaBox Lab project — from AI Workbench to local-first editors.
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Resources
Everything you need, in one place
Guides, reusable prompts, researched product ideas and hands-on use cases — the four knowledge bases PeaBox Lab maintains alongside the code.
PromptVault — Prompt Library
1,000 structured, placeholder-driven AI prompts across 75 categories. Search, filter, open any prompt and copy it into your assistant.
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App Ideas — Build Briefs
100 product-ready software ideas with problem framing, MVP scope, architecture — plus target audience, market worth, revenue and business models.
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Use Cases
Tasks you can finish with PeaBox Lab
Fifty-four problems you hit at work, school or in your side project — and the exact repo that solves each one. Every card links to the project so you can start straight away.
Run a fully private AI setup on your own machine
You want chat-style help at your desk but you do not want your work files wandering into someone else’s cloud. The Workbench lets you run local models with Ollama and keep everything on the laptop you already own.
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Compare the same question across five models side by side
Every team has that one question: which model is actually better for this job? Stop guessing and test it yourself.
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Stop losing context when you restart your machine
You close the laptop lid, reopen it, and the whole conversation thread is gone. That is annoying when you spent twenty minutes setting context.
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Turn a long interview recording into searchable text
You record an hour-long client interview and now you need the one sentence about pricing. Scrubbing through audio is painful.
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Read a dense report aloud on your commute
You have a 40-page brief on your screen and two hours on the train. Your eyes are done but your voice assistant is not.
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Caption a team training video in clear sentences
Your training video exists but half your team learns in a second language. Captions are not optional.
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Find the right prompt instead of writing one from scratch
You sit in front of a blank chat box hoping something comes to mind. It rarely does.
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Reuse the same prompt recipe for PR reviews every time
You want consistent reviews but every reviewer asks the same questions differently. Consistency is the win.
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A thousand prompts in one catalog, organised by use
Bookmarked chats are graveyards of good intentions. A catalog beats a folder of dead links.
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Ask your spreadsheet questions in plain English
Your spreadsheet is forty columns wide and the question you have is nothing to do with SQL. You just want an answer.
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Join two messy CSVs without learning SQL first
Sales has one file. Support has another. Nobody knows how they relate. You have a meeting in an hour.
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Freeze a monthly report so everyone sees the same numbers
The exec summary keeps changing after the meeting because someone's pivot table moved. That is a trust problem.
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Stamp a contract set with your firm's details in seconds
You need every page of a 90-page agreement to carry the same header and footer. Copy-paste is not a strategy.
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Watermark proposals before a client ever sees them
Drafts fly around with your logo missing or a previous client's name showing through. Small mistake, big awkwardness.
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Password-protect a sensitive PDF before you email it
The payroll file needs to go to finance. It should not be readable by everyone on the drive.
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Work on a codebase without any cloud signup
Some of your projects live in folders on a network drive with no internet access. Browser IDEs do not help there.
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Catch a plausible-looking bug before you ship it
The model wrote 200 lines and they all look right. They are not always right.
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Explain legacy code to a new teammate in five minutes
New hire opens a 3,000-line file and asks you why this function exists. You do not remember either.
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Prototype a working app before the design sign-off
Product wants a demo Friday. Engineering has three months. The gap is the prototype.
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Migrate a pandas codebase to PySpark without guessing
Your data got too big for pandas and stakeholders want the same dashboards in Fabric. Same code shape, new engine.
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Tag a release from the desktop instead of the CLI
You know exactly what you want to release, but remembering the right git incantations at 1am is a coin toss.
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Catch an env var mistake before CI does
Your build works locally, breaks in CI, and nobody can see which .env entry is missing or misspelled.
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Spot a silent YAML regression in a config PR
A one-line indent change in the deploy manifest took the whole staging cluster offline last month. Never again.
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Decide what to build next with 100 ready-made briefs
You have three months and no roadmap. The good opportunities are sitting in someone else's notebook.
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Extract a ZIP with long paths without breaking it
The client sends a ZIP with a 400-character folder name. Windows refuses to open it. Deadline is today.
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Capture research notes that outlive the app you used
Notes apps come and go. Your research should not disappear with them.
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Run your personal task board as plain text
Your to-dos live in five different apps and none of them sync with each other.
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Batch-export a week of social posts from one shoot
You shot 40 photos. You need 10 for Instagram, 4 for the story, 3 for the blog header.
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Pull a brand colour palette from a photo you love
Your client says "the vibe is everywhere but the greens arent them" and hands you a picture as reference.
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Automate a daily chore with 40 lines of readable code
Rename 500 files, parse a log, rename a folder of screenshots. Python is overkill for that.
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Teach a beginner programming without the syntax tax
Students bounce off curly braces and semicolons before they learn to think like a programmer.
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Audit a COBOL codebase before a modernization project
Banking systems run on COBOL. Nobody on your team has read one in anger. Migration starts next quarter.
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Find accessibility issues before your launch review
The client wants a WCAG-AA report before the site goes live. You have two days and 200 pages.
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Hand a developer-ready report to your front-end team
Your audit says "colour contrast is bad". That is not actionable. Engineers need exact element-level fixes.
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Keep the good output and ditch the hallucinated junk
The model sounds confident. Half of what it says is made up. You need a way to check the claims, not just skim them.
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Build a personal second brain from scattered PDFs
You save whitepapers and articles into a folder and forget them. Later you cannot find the one with the risk tables.
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Summarise a year of meeting notes in an afternoon
Forty weeks of 1:1s, sprint reviews and vendor calls. You need the themes, and nobody on the team wants to read them.
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Transcribe a podcast episode for show notes
Episode goes live Friday. You need show notes with timestamps and three quotable lines before the host reviews it.
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Make lecture recordings searchable for revision
You recorded every lecture. Now exams are three weeks away and the recordings are useless for revision.
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Batch-stamp every file in a folder with a watermark
A whole folder of drafts went out without the CONFIDENTIAL banner. You catch it three days later.
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Strip metadata before sending a contract externally
Your draft has your name, internal path, and three edits from last month in its metadata. The client does not need any of that.
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Catch the outlier that ruins your average
Your launch report says average response time is fine, but one 6-second outlier is quietly wrecking your SLA.
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Show the trend to stakeholders without building BI
Leadership wants a chart by lunch. Your BI platform needs three approvals and a ticket you do not want to file.
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Explain a scary regex to the newest person on the team
There is a 200-character regex in the auth module that nobody wants to touch. The new hire inherited it.
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Refactor a function and see the risks before you merge
You refactored a hot path. Tests are green. You still do not trust yourself, and the reviewer feels the same way.
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Reproduce a flaky CI failure without pulling logs
The build fails on one runner, passes on three others, and the logs might as well be in another language.
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Review a config change as if it were code
A config PR says 'just a version bump'. You know better by now — config drift is never just a bump.
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Undo a misdirected push from the desktop GUI
You pushed to the release branch instead of feature by accident. The release is tomorrow morning.
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Find the ideal project to clone next
You want to build something real this month but the launch is three idea-dumps away every time.
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Prep a photo set for a print gallery hanging
The gallery wants prints by Thursday. You shot for JPEG social, not for a wall six feet wide.
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Move your whole notes system off a dead app
Your note app shut down with three years of research inside it. The export is a directory of .md files.
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Explain a COBOL batch job to a sceptical manager
The batch process runs at 3am and ops wants to know why. The answer lives in 12,000 lines of COBOL.
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Re-test after fixes without rebuilding the whole audit
QA fixed the contrast issues and closed the ticket. But did the fixes actually land? Nobody wants to crawl the site again by hand.
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Get unstuck on a blank-page task in under five minutes
You have five minutes and a completely blank prompt. Something needs to appear before the meeting.
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