Claude to prepare furniture listings for a move
Dan Healy and his wife had a little over a week to sell ten pieces of furniture before moving. They took photographs of the bed, futon, desk, chair, bookshelves and other items, then gave Claude Cowork access to the desktop photo folder and the intended prices.
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Go through the photos I have in this folder. Write a title and description for each item.
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- Dan Healy
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- Reported result
- Healy reports seven items sold in seventy-two hours and all ten sold before moving, after roughly fifteen minutes of listing preparation.
- Human involvement
- Healy removed prices from titles and manually posted each listing and its photographs to Marketplace.
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How the agent did it
- Photograph the furniture and put all images in one folder with prices.
- Have Cowork group items, convert HEIC images and draft listings.
- Edit the titles, post the advertisements yourself and handle the sales.
Dan Healy and his wife had a little over a week to sell ten pieces of furniture before moving. They took photographs of the bed, futon, desk, chair, bookshelves and other items, then gave Claude Cowork access to the desktop photo folder and the intended prices.
Cowork grouped multiple photographs by item. It noticed that the fifteen images were in HEIC format, converted them to JPG and saved the converted versions in a new folder. It also produced ten listing titles and descriptions, an order for the photographs and suggestions intended to help the items sell quickly.
Healy still edited and published the listings. He removed the price from the titles, copied the descriptions into Facebook Marketplace, uploaded the JPGs and posted that night. The agent did not independently publish the ads, communicate with buyers or receive payments.
He reports that seven of the ten items sold within seventy-two hours and the remainder before the move. Listing preparation took about fifteen minutes in his account, against his estimate of one or two hours of manual work. The specific reusable step is giving the agent the entire photo folder so grouping, conversion and writing happen together, while the seller retains control of the final advertisements.
Prompt
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Source: www.ontheflydaily.com · Dan Healy
Frequently asked questions
Did Cowork publish the advertisements?
No. Healy copied the drafts, uploaded the images and posted them himself.
Why process a whole folder?
Cowork could group the multiple images belonging to each item and suggest their display order.
What edit did the seller make?
Healy removed the price from the generated titles before publishing.
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Cowork organized photographs, converted fifteen HEIC files to JPG and drafted ten item listings.
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Credit: Dan Healy
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Tools and topics
Claude Cowork · Photo folder · Facebook Marketplace
Moving-house sales · HEIC conversion · Marketplace listings
Editorial completeness: 100/100. Measures documented fields, not agent performance or verified outcomes.