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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 hk__2 »

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

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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.

> You don’t need a Drillator-X 3000 AI Ready™ if a simple screwdriver gets the job done

Yes, and Django feels like more of a Drillator than a simple screwdriver to me.

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

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Post by hk__2 »

JanSchu wrote: post #20
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.

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…

Sure there is nothing wrong here, I was just talking about a feeling. HTMX is quite recent, but this idea of embedding logic into HTML reminds me of the old jQuery days.

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

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Post by holoduke »

jcmeyrignac wrote: post #84
spicyusername wrote: post #33

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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!

It's not. Maintainance is easy now. We have at least 200 legacy products in various old languages. Never it has been easier to work on those since Claude came into the picture. The argument I hear about support being expensive is not true I think.

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

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Post by deaux »

ninkendo wrote: post #66
63stack wrote: post #40

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The era of sharing some small programs that you made with others to benefit from is over imo. You can just vibe code it yourself. If your requirements are narrower (eg. you only need support for 3 networks and not 12), you will end up with something that takes less time to develop (possibly less than a day), it will have a smaller surface for problems, and it will be much better tailored to your specific needs. If yo…

> The era of sharing some small programs that you made with others to benefit from is over imo. > You can just vibe code it yourself. +1. The password manager I use full time now is “Kenpass”, which has exactly one user: me. I have it on iOS/macOS/Linux, browser extensions, CLI and (native, no electron) UI for each, syncs with my homelab server over my wireguard tunnel, and it covers all my use cases. Took me maybe a…

> I have it on iOS/macOS/Linux, browser extensions, CLI and (native, no electron) UI for each, syncs with my homelab server over my wireguard tunnel, and it covers all my use cases. Took me maybe a week (a few hours total, spread around.)

A few hours including iOS? Don't you need to go through lots of hoops even if it's only for personal use? Isn't it time-limited or something?

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

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Post by jareklupinski »

ipaddr wrote: post #62

I 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?

RSS can get you there, lots of clients but you have to teach your friends how to make their own websites and set up a feed

made me think of Pidgin, the chat client that could talk to any chat server

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

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Post by deaux »

m000 wrote: post #41
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…

I know solo bootstrappers who have 5+ accounts across platforms for one app, it's quite normal for B2C.

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

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Post by apsurd »

holoduke wrote: post #103
jcmeyrignac wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Delivering is cheap, but maintenance is expensive... if not impossible!

It's not. Maintainance is easy now. We have at least 200 legacy products in various old languages. Never it has been easier to work on those since Claude came into the picture. The argument I hear about support being expensive is not true I think.

Maintenance of mountains more agentic code.

The argument is the agents can maintain what the agents build. But someone has to manage the explosion in system complexity.

I just quit my job because there was top down explosion of shipping agentic code. I don't think it's going to work and I don't want my job to be maintaining someone else's 50x code output.

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

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Post by m000 »

bryanhogan wrote: post #75
m000 wrote: post #41

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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…

$50 is a high price to ask, no? And I just looked it up, it's actually even more than that. Consider having an account for each common social media platform, then multiply that for every project, that grows quickly.

You are right. My memory failed me there. I should have done a quick lookup for the pricing.

It's $120/year/account for multi-user setup, and $60/year/account for single-user.

Which is still dirt cheap if you use social media professionally. E.g. what would $360 buy you if you try to do self-hosting? Maybe a day of work from a devops engineer to get this deployed for you?

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

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Post by qingcharles »

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…

I built something very, very similar for a client to post their content on schedule to about 9 different social networks. It was my first major vibe-coded app -- I normally vibe-code a function or small apps. Took about two hours with Claude [0] by just building up the functionality in layers, testing each layer as we went. If I'd rawdogged it, 2022-style, it would probably have taken me a month to write.

It's been running flawlessly for months without a single error. In fact, spooky good. I still feel nervous about it, though and check it every morning.

It is built mostly as a web app in .NET 10 Razor with SQLite db.

The APIs for the social networks are the hazy bit. As OP mentions, some are badly documented. Some are a pain to get access to. I was using a driven browser to post to Twitter, but they opened their API recently, which was nice.

[0] I used Claude in Github Copilot, so total cost was less than the $10/month in credits.

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