Ask HN: What have you built/shipped with Claude Code?

I'm trying not to get too caught up in the hype here. I'm curious what you've actually built or shipped so far with claude-code.

I made a little phonics flashcard game for my kids https://apps.apple.com/us/app/3letterstories/id6753956099

Also related to that: a tool to fine tune the images on the flash cards (which are all AI generated on gemini).

Some internal tooling - a self contained page that does JSON/python dict visualization - this obviously exists already.

Nothing big yet, but it's only been a couple of days. This tool does seem really good at building frontends/dashboards.

9 points | by blhack 1 day ago

3 comments

  • mdrzn 13 hours ago
    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.

    • Etcpasswd 10 hours ago
      I am using Opus -> Native app flow to build the apps I need quickly. This is crazy how much I don't know, but still getting stuff done.
  • splitbrain 16 hours ago
    A password hasher PWA (JavaScript) https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2026-01/02-password_hasher_p...

    A GUI for the notmuch email indexer (PHP) https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2026-01/09-gmail_backup_notm...

    An AppImage installer (Go) https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2026-01/20-appy_an_appimage_...

    All three just this month. Each of them took me several hours, because they're not vibe coded but carefully reviewed and refined until I was reasonably happy with the resulting code. Could I have written them myself? Sure. Would I ever have started without claude? Hell no.

  • verdverm 1 day ago
    What if I built and shipped with something besides Claude Code?