Building Stuff with Claude Code: From Hacker News Ranker to Poster Maker
2025-08-11
The author built several projects using Anthropic's Claude Code, including a Hacker News comment ranker plugin and a minimal Canva replacement – a poster maker. The former aims to filter out irrelevant comments, while the latter provides a simple interface to combine images and text to generate A4 PDFs. The author also leveraged Claude Code for file management and data processing, such as renaming bank statement files and merging them into a CSV. Despite encountering challenges, such as Claude Code's limitations in handling complex UIs and PDF export, the author remains impressed by Claude Code's potential for rapid prototyping and productivity gains.
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