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Doesn't sound too hard. Why don't you see how far you get in a weekend with Claude.

nadermx 6mo ago
I started Free.ai as a weekend project with the same mindset. And a month in the work hasn't stopped. So I second this. Just find a good name, it helps.
- wewewedxfgdf 6mo ago
  gitwheel.com
  - wewewedxfgdf 6mo ago
    Ha ha impressively fast action. From unregistered domain to website in hours. I should have registered it myself.
    - nadermx 6mo ago
      Wasn't me; Would of been minutes not hours, and wouldn't be a coming soon. Would of been live by now, granted not in the best of shape, but live.
kaashif 6mo ago
This can be the mindset now with a lot of things. If you want a certain app with a feature and the app isn't open source, then you may as well just clone the app and add the feature. Claude Code and Codex (and other tools) have computer use and are perfectly capable of navigating, experimenting, cloning functionality, writing tests... If the app is open source it's probably easier to just fork and add your features though. And cheaper.
- stavros 6mo ago
  Hell, I use the (closed-source) app Smart Audiobook Player and I wanted Audiobookshelf integration. I asked Claude, it decompiled the app, added the extra code, recompiled the APK and it works perfectly, syncing my book's progress with the server. Truly magical, it would have taken me months.
  - DANmode 6mo ago
    That’s super cool. If no post planned, please consider - that’s very “an app is a home cooked meal”, and I love it.
    - stavros 6mo ago
      I could write something, but it would be "I told Claude to do this and it did, I'm happy", there isn't really much more detail to write about. What would you like to see?
      - DANmode 6mo ago
        I’ve seen a few posts just like that ^_^ It’s mostly your original story of motivation, in brief prose, that does the heavy lifting of a satisfying post, followed by exactly what spec and names of tools you used, mundane as they may feel, your exact prompt(s) (because this is of technical interest in and of itself), and screenshots of excerpts/link to output. Things that stood out to you along the way would also stand out to others. The comment alone will probably be the most intriguing one I read all day.
        stavros 6mo ago
        Huh, sure, I'll write something up today! You can subscribe to https://stavros.io https://stavros.io to get an email (there's a form under each article).
        stavros 6mo ago
        My god this took forever, legit 8 hours to write: https://www.stavros.io/posts/adding-a-feature-to-a-closed-source-app/ https://www.stavros.io/posts/adding-a-feature-to-a-closed-so... I did write a small app to do visual writing critique loops, though, because text feedback by Claude was confusing: https://github.com/skorokithakis/graphe https://github.com/skorokithakis/graphe

I started Free.ai as a weekend project with the same mindset. And a month in the work hasn't stopped. So I second this. Just find a good name, it helps.

wewewedxfgdf 6mo ago
gitwheel.com
- wewewedxfgdf 6mo ago
  Ha ha impressively fast action. From unregistered domain to website in hours. I should have registered it myself.
  - nadermx 6mo ago
    Wasn't me; Would of been minutes not hours, and wouldn't be a coming soon. Would of been live by now, granted not in the best of shape, but live.

kaashif 6mo ago

This can be the mindset now with a lot of things. If you want a certain app with a feature and the app isn't open source, then you may as well just clone the app and add the feature. Claude Code and Codex (and other tools) have computer use and are perfectly capable of navigating, experimenting, cloning functionality, writing tests... If the app is open source it's probably easier to just fork and add your features though. And cheaper.

stavros 6mo ago
Hell, I use the (closed-source) app Smart Audiobook Player and I wanted Audiobookshelf integration. I asked Claude, it decompiled the app, added the extra code, recompiled the APK and it works perfectly, syncing my book's progress with the server. Truly magical, it would have taken me months.
- DANmode 6mo ago
  That’s super cool. If no post planned, please consider - that’s very “an app is a home cooked meal”, and I love it.
  - stavros 6mo ago
    I could write something, but it would be "I told Claude to do this and it did, I'm happy", there isn't really much more detail to write about. What would you like to see?
    - DANmode 6mo ago
      I’ve seen a few posts just like that ^_^ It’s mostly your original story of motivation, in brief prose, that does the heavy lifting of a satisfying post, followed by exactly what spec and names of tools you used, mundane as they may feel, your exact prompt(s) (because this is of technical interest in and of itself), and screenshots of excerpts/link to output. Things that stood out to you along the way would also stand out to others. The comment alone will probably be the most intriguing one I read all day.
      - stavros 6mo ago
        Huh, sure, I'll write something up today! You can subscribe to https://stavros.io https://stavros.io to get an email (there's a form under each article).
      - stavros 6mo ago
        My god this took forever, legit 8 hours to write: https://www.stavros.io/posts/adding-a-feature-to-a-closed-source-app/ https://www.stavros.io/posts/adding-a-feature-to-a-closed-so... I did write a small app to do visual writing critique loops, though, because text feedback by Claude was confusing: https://github.com/skorokithakis/graphe https://github.com/skorokithakis/graphe