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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

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Post by SeriousM »

qingcharles wrote: post #110
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 r…

Recently I built a "azure devops deployment central" tool just because microsoft is unable to make their ui usable at scale.

The tool shows all pipelines, builds, buildagents and approval ready in one place at a glance. For the most actions I use the public api but approval I use the internal api because they are still not public, since 4 years.

The tool runs so smooth it scares me too! My guess is that the apis are so stable that it will work for the next 10 years.

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

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Post by thomasquarre »

Really impressive to ship something this complete in 3 weeks. The multi platform scheduling problem is genuinely hard, especially around OAuth token refresh and rate limit handling across networks like LinkedIn and Instagram that have particularly strict policies.

Curious how you handled the queue and retry logic when a scheduled post fails partway through on one platform but not the others. Did you end up building a per platform state machine or something simpler?

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Post by ali_mouiz »

Spec-first was the unlock for me too. The agent drifts badly without it. Your point about defensive code is spot on, happy path works fine, but retry logic, edge cases, error handling all needed manual work in my experience too. The 80/20 observation is real. Functionality is fast, making it actually trustworthy takes most of the time.

I also added tons of unit-test, it helped ai agent to detect regression while producing code.

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

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Post by jusasiiv »

Lots of questions already about the project so Ill ask about your vibe coding experience. After the project has grown have you found it harder to upkeep the project with AI? Also did you use any structuring while working with Claude/Codex like first planning the tasks on separate documents, or did you just work with prompts and the context that were generated on the sessions?

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

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Post by vladsanchez »

JanSchu wrote: post #124
vladsanchez wrote: post #82

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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…

My personal opinion is that it will be extremely difficult in the future to monetize plain software. Either you need a very strong edge and unique angle for your distribution or you have to build a product that cannot be reproduced by agents that can build software. This will be 2 types of products. 1. A product which requires tech that is not inside the training data distribution of the models underlying coding agen…

I concur and share your thoughts - "it's a race to the bottom" - also as you said and I recently shared with a close friend:

- "In the AI Age, Data is your only Moat!"

Thanks for sharing such valuable insights JanSchu! B-)

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Post by theshrike79 »

dghlsakjg wrote: post #78
swasheck wrote: post #68

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i think we need to encode (or refine) what we mean by “vibe code.” my original impression was that it was used to describe the process whereby someone with an idea but lacking development/engineering skills leveraged llm via an agent to create the mechanics to bring their idea to fruition. anymore it seems like if it has the hint of AI then it’s “vibe coded.” ironically, i didn’t read the article because i come to co…

Definitely. The original vibe coding tweet is pretty explicit about “forgetting the code exists”, and “throwaway weekend projects” ( https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383 ) Now however, many people just use it to mean any ai-assisted coding. One person says “vibe coding” to mean a throwaway script to scrape some page. Others use it to mean a code reviewed app built by a team using Claude. It is so broad a…

Some people (me included) are trying to separate Vibe Coding (no idea about code, just give me the result) from Vibe Engineering (I know how to do this, but can't be arsed to write. I also know what the result should look like)
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