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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 m000 »

FireInsight wrote: post #25

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…

I agree. It's not like this project is disrupting an overpriced product/SaaS.

E.g. Buffer charges around $50 per year per social media account, which gives you an unlimited number of collaborating user accounts. And their single user plans are even cheaper.

I don't see how self-hosting would be a worthy investment of your time/effort in this case, unless you are in some grossly mismanaged organization where you have several devops engineers paid for doing literally nothing.

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

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Post by JanSchu »

dontwannahearit wrote: post #39
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…

How much of the specs themselves came from the LLM? The development schedule https://github.com/brightbeanxyz/brightbean-studio/blob/main... has very AI-looking estimates for exampl and I can see a commit in the architecture.md file which is exclusively changing em-dashes to normal dashes ( https://github.com/brightbeanxyz/brightbean-studio/commit/74... ) which suggests you wanted to make it seem less LLM-generated?…

The spec document was also written by Claude (over many iteration) and lots of manual additions. It took me tho 4 full days to get the specs to the level I was happy with.

One main thing I did was to use the deep research feature of Claude to get a good understanding of what other tools are offering (features, integrations etc.)

Then each feature in the specs document got refined with manual suggestions and screenshots of other tools that I took.

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

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Post by JanSchu »

rrr_oh_man wrote: post #29
hk__2 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

yeah htmx is from 2020, it feels like yesterday

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

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Post by TrackerFF »

FireInsight wrote: post #25

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…

Lots and lots of commercial software is being vibe coded. Big difference here is that at least the OP honest about it.

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

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Post by purerandomness »

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.

FastAPI is quite old (2018)

Svelte even older (2016, SvelteKit was just an new version in 2022)

SQLAlchemy is ancient (2006)

Use newer tech, like HTMX (2020)

(/s obviously)

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

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Post by benterix »

JanSchu wrote: post #44
rrr_oh_man wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

yeah htmx is from 2020, it feels like yesterday

SvelteKit is also from 2020.

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

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Post by sixtyj »

FireInsight wrote: post #25

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…

I see your point.

Last time I “vibe coded” something (internal) and I liked it because I couldn’t find external solution.

I admire coders who can finish their code into deliverable and usable piece.

Issue here is software abundance and ppl will start to hesitate due to absurd pile that they should evaluate.

It reminds me the statistics of ice cream global sales. People want certainty so they choose chocolate or vanilla :)

Therefore many good software projects will have a problem to find users.

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