Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex
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Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex
#82I 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…
Isn't this a SaaS-pocaplyse testament? What's stopping anyone from doing the same to BrightBean? What's stopping anyone with a little of domain knowledge and a $200+ Claude to clone your app and build yet another gap-filling, slightly improved content-syndication version and go-to-market? Is it worth taking it to the market when anyone can perpetuate the cycle?
I'm genuinely interested in knowing your thoughts.
Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex
#83I was hoping this was the opposite of a creators platform - a social media users platform. Download all social media to one place (stories/posts) where you can view on your own schedule. Is there anything like that out there?
Same. I was hoping for this. As much as social media frustrates me, the content can be great at times. I want an aggregation tool where I have strict control on the output. Give me the content minus the addictive never ending scroll with inflammatory posts. Basically, I want a benevolent curation of media on my terms.
Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex
#84I 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…
We're entering an era where the delivering of software is cheap. Basically any idea can have an MVP implemented by one or two people in just a month or two now. Very quickly the industry is learning what the next set of bottlenecks are, now that the bottleneck is no longer writing code. Planning, design, management alignment, finding customers, integrating with other products, waiting for review, etc. Basically all t…
Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lots and lots of commercial software is being vibe coded. Big difference here is that at least the OP honest about it.
I think our industry really needs to get on top of terms / names and fast. To me, “vibe coded” means “100% (or close to it) of this was written by LLM and I do not have a slightest clue about technology or hacking or anything related to this domain.” if this is the case here (or anywhere else) I am not touching it with a 10-foot pole (even with honesty of the author). something like “LLM assisted” would be a whole ot…
But, of course, that's not how most programmers use - at least I'd like to think. One thing is when people with zero programming knowledge vibe code something in that fashion, but for serious (read: big) products I'd like to think that you're still forced to do some book keeping.
Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex
#86Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
We're entering an era where the delivering of software is cheap. Basically any idea can have an MVP implemented by one or two people in just a month or two now. Very quickly the industry is learning what the next set of bottlenecks are, now that the bottleneck is no longer writing code. Planning, design, management alignment, finding customers, integrating with other products, waiting for review, etc. Basically all t…
Delivering is cheap, but maintenance is expensive... if not impossible!
Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex
#88Can you add support for UpScrolled? https://upscrolled.com/en/
Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex
#89I 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…
First, congrats on your accomplishment(s) and leveraging your AI+Python+WebDev talents. Isn't this a SaaS-pocaplyse testament? What's stopping anyone from doing the same to BrightBean? What's stopping anyone with a little of domain knowledge and a $200+ Claude to clone your app and build yet another gap-filling, slightly improved content-syndication version and go-to-market? Is it worth taking it to the market when a…
It being open source doesn't help it either, so easy to malus/chardet it.