Use cases
Apps you’d build for the kind of site you already run.
Real estate, food, fitness, finance, education, local services, WooCommerce. Each section below shows three apps for that kind of site, with a one-line prompt you can paste into Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex (or into Riff, the AI builder inside wp-admin). Your AI writes the app; the plugin runs it.
Free hosts unlimited apps via wp-admin upload; Pro ($99/yr+) adds CLI deploy from Claude Code or Cursor and the in-admin AI builder.
Dedicated guides
Start with the job your visitor already has.
These pages are narrower than the vertical list below. They target the exact moment when someone has an AI-made thing and wants it live on their WordPress site.
Export the artifact. Upload it. Publish it.
For the person staring at a working Claude artifact and wondering where it should live. This page sells the free upload path in plain English.
Claude -> saved HTML -> /apps/{slug} AI calculator to WordPress Turn a generated calculator into a lead tool.
For service pages, product finders, quizzes, estimates, and ROI tools. Build with AI, publish on WordPress, improve when the signal is there.
Prompt -> upload -> convert visitors Real estate
Lead capture and listing tools that read your live property data.
Your listings are already WordPress posts. The signup flow, the comparison tool, the saved-search dashboard, those belong on your domain, reading your data, not on a third-party Vercel deploy that has to re-import everything.
“An open-house RSVP. Save each signup to the visitor’s WP account, email me the lead.”
Three you could build
Open-house RSVP
Visitors sign up for tours; you get the email; their account remembers every house they’ve booked. Replaces a $30/mo Calendly link.
Saved-search dashboard
Logged-in visitors set price, beds, area filters once; new listings matching those filters appear in their account automatically (live property CPT).
Comparable sales widget
Drops into any listing post; pulls 3 similar properties based on price/beds/area. New listings show up without a redeploy.
Food & recipes
Tools that turn your recipes into a daily-use destination.
Your recipes are already in WordPress. A meal planner, a favorites box, a pantry filter, those are the tools that bring readers back week after week, and they should read your real posts, not a duplicate database.
“A weekly meal planner. Visitors drag recipes into a 7-day grid, get a shopping list, and resume next week.”
Three you could build
Weekly meal planner
Drag your recipes into a 7-day grid. Generates a shopping list. Per-user storage means visitors come back to their own plan.
Recipe favorites box
Visitors save recipes to a personal cookbook tied to their WP account. Their list survives across visits.
Pantry filter
“What can I make tonight?” Visitors pick what’s in the cupboard; the app surfaces matching recipes from your CPT.
Fitness & coaching
Booking, programming, and member tools the SaaS plugins charge $40/mo for.
Coaches and gyms cobble together Calendly, MindBody, and a member-area plugin. None of them know about each other and none of them read your real content. One small DSGo app does the job, gated by WP login, with the trainer’s real classes pulled from a CPT.
“A class booking widget that reads my upcoming sessions. Email me each booking, show the member their next 3 sessions.”
Three you could build
Class booking widget
Reads your class CPT, books visitors in via per-user storage, emails you each booking. Members see their next 3 sessions in their account.
Workout program generator
Reads your workout library and builds a 4-week plan from goals + equipment. Saves the plan per member.
Habit / streak tracker
Daily check-in, per-user storage, gentle gamification. Members see their streak; you see aggregate adherence as posts.
Finance & accounting
Client portals and intake flows that look like your firm, not a Fiverr widget.
Accountants and finance practices compete on trust. The shared Dropbox folders, the off-brand intake form on a separate domain, the “send me your docs to my Gmail” ritual, all of those undercut the perception you’re selling. A logged-in portal on your own domain, reading the right client’s data, fixes that in one app.
“A client document portal. Logged-in clients upload tax docs; I see them filed per client.”
Three you could build
Client document portal
Logged-in clients upload tax docs via dsgo.media.upload; you see them filed per client. Replaces the shared Dropbox.
Tax intake wizard
Multi-step form, persisted per visitor. Clients pause and resume; you get a draft email when they finish. Replaces a $50/mo Typeform.
Quarterly estimate dashboard
Logged-in clients see their own prior data (from a private CPT) projected forward. No spreadsheets emailed.
Education & courses
Student dashboards and submission flows without paying for LearnDash.
You don’t need a six-figure LMS to ship a course. A cohort dashboard, an assignment portal, a flashcard trainer, those are small apps. Build them in a chat. Drop them in. Pulls from your existing course posts.
“A cohort dashboard. Logged-in students see their assignments, classmates, and progress from CPT posts.”
Three you could build
Cohort dashboard
Logged-in students see their own cohort, assignments, and progress, pulled from posts. Members of other cohorts see only theirs.
Assignment submission portal
Students upload work via dsgo.media.upload; the file is gated to their account; you grade in wp-admin.
Spaced-repetition flashcards
Per-user storage tracks recall and schedules reviews. State survives across sessions, devices, and visits.
Local services & appointments
Booking, intake, and service-area tools on your own domain.
Plumbers, dentists, salons, agencies, anyone selling time slots. Calendly costs $25/mo per seat, looks generic, and lives on a different domain. A DSGo booking app reads your real services, takes the booking, emails you, and remembers the visitor next time. Same workflow, your brand, $0/mo extra.
“An appointment booking widget for my consultation slots. Email me each booking; show the visitor their next appointment.”
Three you could build
Appointment booking
Reads your service CPT, books visitors in via storage, emails you each booking. Visitors see their upcoming appointments from their account.
Service-area checker
Visitor enters a ZIP; app says yes/no based on the areas you’ve published. Captures out-of-area leads as a waitlist.
Multi-step intake form
Long forms (insurance details, project scope) that persist between visits. Visitor pauses, comes back, finishes; you get a clean email.
WooCommerce shops
Catalog-aware tools that lift conversion without a custom plugin.
WooCommerce powers 5M+ stores. Most of the conversion-lift tools (gift finders, configurators, loyalty dashboards) need a custom plugin or a third-party SaaS. A DSGo app reads the live product catalog through the bridge and ships in a chat instead.
“A gift finder quiz that reads my product catalog. End-screen shows 3 recommended products with add-to-cart.”
Three you could build
Gift finder quiz
5-question quiz, end-screen recommends 3 products from the live catalog. “Add to cart” works directly via dsgo.commerce.cart.add.
Custom bundle builder
Visitors compose their own bundle from your catalog; the app prices it live, adds the components to the cart in one go.
Loyalty / rewards dashboard
Logged-in customers see their points, redeemable discounts, order history. Per-user storage; no third-party loyalty app.
The pattern
Every vertical app is the same shape.
A small interactive page, a list of WordPress posts it can read, a permission for who can see what, and a place to put it. Different verticals; one runtime. Three ways to actually build it, pick the one that matches what you have.
Describe it
In a chat with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or v0, or in Riff, the AI builder inside wp-admin (Pro). Plain English: “A class booking widget that reads my upcoming sessions and emails me each booking.”
Get it onto the site
Drop the saved HTML into wp-admin, or scaffold + deploy from your code editor with the CLI. Riff installs in one click. The plugin shows you what the app can read; you approve.
Place it
Live at /apps/{slug}, embedded in any post as a Gutenberg block, Elementor widget, or [dsgo_app] shortcode, or your home page at /.
Pick one. Build it.
Open Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex with the starter and paste a prompt; or build it inline in wp-admin with Riff. The plugin runs the result. Free hosts unlimited apps via wp-admin upload.