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Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex

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Post by dewey »

hyperionultra wrote: post #4
JanSchu wrote: post #2

I wanted to test how far AI coding tools could take a production project. Not a prototype. A social media management platform with 12 first-party API integrations, multi-tenant auth, encrypted credential storage, background job processing, approval workflows, and a unified inbox. The scope would normally keep a solo developer busy for the better part of a year. I shipped it in 3 weeks. Before writing any code, I spen…

Why postgre instead of classic mysql?

Postgres isn't a newcomer any more. For most projects that I see it's the default and the "classic" already.

Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex

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Post by brobdingnagians »

cyanydeez wrote: post #9
benmarten wrote: post #3

No x?

Do people still think twitter is a valuable place (besides being bot owners).

It seems like geopolitical statements and international announcements happen a lot on Twitter/X these days.

Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex

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Post by dewey »

stavros wrote: post #7
JanSchu wrote: post #2

I wanted to test how far AI coding tools could take a production project. Not a prototype. A social media management platform with 12 first-party API integrations, multi-tenant auth, encrypted credential storage, background job processing, approval workflows, and a unified inbox. The scope would normally keep a solo developer busy for the better part of a year. I shipped it in 3 weeks. Before writing any code, I spen…

This is interesting, how do you publish to LinkedIn? I thought they didn't allow automated posts.

Seems to just use the website api: https://github.com/brightbeanxyz/brightbean-studio/blob/main...

Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex

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Post by purerandomness »

hyperionultra wrote: post #4
JanSchu wrote: post #2

I wanted to test how far AI coding tools could take a production project. Not a prototype. A social media management platform with 12 first-party API integrations, multi-tenant auth, encrypted credential storage, background job processing, approval workflows, and a unified inbox. The scope would normally keep a solo developer busy for the better part of a year. I shipped it in 3 weeks. Before writing any code, I spen…

Why postgre instead of classic mysql?

MySQL does not let you have transactional DDL statements (alter, create, index etc).

If you're building anything serious and your data integrity is important, use Postgres.

Postgres is much stricter, and always was. MySQL tried to introduce several strict modes to mitigate the problems that they had, but I would always recommend to use Postgres.

Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex

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Post by bengale »

cyanydeez wrote: post #9
benmarten wrote: post #3

No x?

Do people still think twitter is a valuable place (besides being bot owners).

I know some people have ideological things going on that make them choose different networks, but they have more than half a billion active users so it's not exactly a ghost town.

Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex

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Post by JanSchu »

hyperionultra wrote: post #4
JanSchu wrote: post #2

I wanted to test how far AI coding tools could take a production project. Not a prototype. A social media management platform with 12 first-party API integrations, multi-tenant auth, encrypted credential storage, background job processing, approval workflows, and a unified inbox. The scope would normally keep a solo developer busy for the better part of a year. I shipped it in 3 weeks. Before writing any code, I spen…

Why postgre instead of classic mysql?

Postgres is simply a battle proven technology.

Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex

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Post by stavros »

dewey wrote: post #13
stavros wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is interesting, how do you publish to LinkedIn? I thought they didn't allow automated posts.

Seems to just use the website api: https://github.com/brightbeanxyz/brightbean-studio/blob/main...

Very helpful, thanks!

Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex

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Post by spiderfarmer »

bengale wrote: post #16
cyanydeez wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do people still think twitter is a valuable place (besides being bot owners).

I know some people have ideological things going on that make them choose different networks, but they have more than half a billion active users so it's not exactly a ghost town.

In The Netherlands it’s a full on crazy town. I’m not kidding. It’s bottom of the barrel vitriolic garbage. Not one positive , insightful or interesting tweet among them.

Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex

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Post by JanSchu »

hk__2 wrote: post #10
JanSchu wrote: post #2

I wanted to test how far AI coding tools could take a production project. Not a prototype. A social media management platform with 12 first-party API integrations, multi-tenant auth, encrypted credential storage, background job processing, approval workflows, and a unified inbox. The scope would normally keep a solo developer busy for the better part of a year. I shipped it in 3 weeks. Before writing any code, I spen…

Nothing wrong here, but Django/HTMX seem quite 'old' technologies to me for a new project made in 2026. Nowadays I use FastAPI/SQLAlchemy for the backend and SvelteKit on the frontend.

I do have originally a data science background, thus python is usually my go to language, and have a lot of experience with django already. This helps a lot when reviewing AI code and if you have to judge architecture, etc.

And for hmtx I simply wanted to have something lightweight that is not very invasive to keep things simple and dependencies low.

In my head this was a good consideration to keep complexity low for my AI agents :-)

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