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I use Claude Code to hack together a little webapp that allows me to make hex-maps for use in roleplaying games. There are a lot of sites on the web that let y
by aetherson 1y ago
I use Claude Code to hack together a little webapp that allows me to make hex-maps for use in roleplaying games.
There are a lot of sites on the web that let you make a hex map. A lot of them are even free. Many of them have features that my little webapp doesn't have.
But mine works the way I want it. I wanted rivers and forest to be modifiers on top of the base terrain of the tile. I wanted to have a few different settlement icons. I wanted to have more variations of hills and mountains than most of the other sites do.
And if I'm ever missing a feature on this thing, I can just add it, rather than just sort of saying, "Oh well."
Because it's an app that's just for me, I don't need to worry about scale or security or monetization or anything.
It took me about an hour to two hours of my attention (spread out over two calendar days) to have the AI code it.
- lionkor 1y agoIs it easy to modify, or do you think it will eventually become unmaintainable? What level of experience/software development seniority do you have?
- aetherson 1y agoIt's a rails app with a JavaScript frontend. I know rails pretty well and feel like I can just take over manual coding if I want to or the AI gets in over its head. But I'm very out of date on JS frameworks and would have a big pile of learning if I had to take over the FE. I assume it will eventually become unmaintainable if I add a bunch to it.