Why wouldn't I be able to fix these things? If I managed to build a thing from scratch (with Opus 4.5), I don't see why I wouldn't be able to fix it and maintain it in the future (maybe with Opus 4.7 or even better future models?).
Which is exactly why whenever I have an idea I just tinked with ClaudeCode for an hour or so until I have exactly what I need. It takes less time than trying to compare 10 similar products, none of which have the exact specifications or features that I need.
Tens of small/one-time apps or scripts that I needed done, and Claude provided them in seconds.
A few medium to big projects:
- a scraper of product pricing in shops near me, to track inflation over time
- a clone of typeform, but more customized on my needs
- end-to-end automation of managing facebook ads campaign (create/track/scale)
- dashboard to automate managing comments on multiple facebook pages
- a classic polymarket bot
- a pdf editor inbrowser so all my data stays local
- a landing page generator for ecommerce, just give the product description
- a slideshow generator using nanobananapro
- an infinite canvas to work in to generate images, with nodes
- agent automations to test AI voice agents in calls
Anything that comes to mind I can setup and deploy in a few minutes.
Nothing groundbreaking but it's all stuff that I didn't know how to do before, and now I know how to build/maintain/backup/upgrade with ClaudeCode. I know most senior devs would say "well this was all doable before" but they forget that not everyone had all the necessary skills to do all this stuff. Now it's a one man job.
The Show HN link went straight to the app instead of the homepage, which makes it look gated. I’m fixing the flow rn so that a homepage explains the idea and then links to the app before sign-up.
Very interesting! This inspired me in making something similar to clean up my old "Download" folders from 10 years ago that are full of screenshots and random images, but I would also need it to preserve the "last-modified" of the file otherwise when I sort by date it would show me all the renamed images.
Twitter has been paying for "time spent on the website" so most people with a checkmark started writing infinitely long posts/threads and they are working.
Companies engage in a mad rush to launch their own "portals," gateways to the Net for consumers. This results in old and new media alliances, highlighted by Disney's taking a major stake in Infoseek and Netscape's strategic move to promote its Netcenter, as well as relanuches by Microsoft and America Online. Next year, look to see whether the hype generates any real profits."
while today they would have written:
14. LLM madness
Companies engage in a mad rush to launch their own "chatbots", gateways to intelligence for consumers and enterprises alike. This results in unprecedented alliances between big tech and research labs, highlighted by Microsoft’s multi-billion dollar bet on OpenAI and Amazon’s strategic stake in Anthropic, as well as aggressive pivots by Google and Meta to integrate generative agents into every product. Next year, look to see whether the massive compute costs can finally generate any real profits.
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