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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 jbk » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 11:20 AM UTC

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 amazing. I started doing the same, but I did not have the time to polish it.

Questions: why no X? Do you have a feature to resize (summarize?) to the text to fit into short boxes?

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

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Post by grvdrm » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 11:20 AM UTC

cyanydeez wrote: post #9

benmarten wrote: post #3

No x?

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

I’m not a power user/poster but I see it as no less valuable than many other similar places. All of them have similar problems. For me it’s probably bifurcated by time spent tuning the feeds.

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

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Post by faangguyindia » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 11:21 AM UTC

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?

such apps should use sqlite. it's enough for this type of app.

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

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Post by _heimdall » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 11:22 AM UTC

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.

HTMX is 5 years old, version 2 is just under 2 years old, and the last release (2.0.7) came out 7 months ago.

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

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Post by FireInsight » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 11:22 AM UTC

I am genuinely in the "target market" for a tool such as this, but having evaluated one previously I found the quality and self-hosting experience to be pretty bad, and that a proprietary freemium product was still a better experience.

I'm hesitant to even take a look at this project due to the whole "vibe coded in 3 weeks" thing, though. Hearing that says to me that this is not serious or battle-tested and might go unmaintained or such. Do you think these are valid concerns to have?

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

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Post by JanSchu » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 11:23 AM UTC

benmarten wrote: post #3

No x?

I did not include it yet, because you have to pay for the API. They changed their pricing model recently to pay only per request. I'll be looking into it the next weeks

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

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Post by ms7892 » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 11:25 AM UTC

Woah! I was looking for something like this from a long time

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

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Post by JodieBenitez » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 11:25 AM UTC

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.

> Django/HTMX seem quite 'old' technologies to me for a new project made in 2026.

It's simple, it works, it's efficient, safe, and there are tons of online resources for it. Excellent choice, even more so when using a coding agent.

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

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Post by rrr_oh_man » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 11:26 AM UTC

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.

You don’t need a Drillator-X 3000 AI Ready™ if a simple screwdriver gets the job done. IMHO the main thing technical people get wrong about B2B problems.

Also calling HTMX old makes me feel old.

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

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Post by mrsekut » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 11:26 AM UTC

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…

That was an interesting article. I have a few questions about the workflow.

1. You mentioned developing tasks in parallel—how many agents were you actually running at the same time? Did you ever reach a point where, even if you increased the degree of parallelism, merging and reviews became the bottleneck, and increasing the number further didn’t speed things up?

2. I really relate to the idea of “80% of features in 20% of the time, then 80% on polish.” Did you use AI for this final polishing phase as well? In other words, did you show the AI screenshots of the screens and explain them? Also, when looking back, do you feel that if you had written the initial specifications more carefully, you could have completed the work faster?