Hand Claude Code a website and an ad budget to run on its own
A web developer gave Claude Code a baseline site, ad accounts with a budget, and scraping tools, and lets it make marketing decisions every four hours.
Claude Code use cases
Real things people did with Claude Code, sourced and with recipes.
Use cases
Spend leftover Claude and Codex quota on small pull requests
A founder built a bot that turns spare subscription tokens into pull requests for small tasks he never gets around to.
Drive coding agents from Telegram and resume after usage limits
A developer built nightmux to control Claude Code agents from Telegram and auto-resume past usage limits overnight.
Cut trial churn by testing when your paywall appears
A solo iOS developer who calls Claude Code 'basically my whole team' cut trial churn from 50% to 30% by only changing paywall timing.
Host personal agents in sandboxes for cents a month
A bootstrapped YC founder explains how his sandbox service runs personal Claude Code and OpenClaw agents for about $0.05-$0.10 per free user a month.
Run a fleet of coding agents like a teaching hospital
Two Cockroach Labs engineers turned GitHub issues into 'patients' handled by agent roles (triage nurse, fellow, reviewing attending, discharge nurse) and shipped production code for five months.
Decompile a classic shooter with a swarm of coding agents
Over three months, a developer and community helpers had up to 16 Claude Code and Codex agents rebuild an old first-person shooter as readable C++ that runs without noticeable bugs.
Grow signups with a bot that makes and posts UGC videos daily
An indie builder's Claude Code bot makes four videos a day, posts them, and learns from past performance; he says it drives 90% of his signups.
Make Claude’s replies half as long with a plugin
A developer annoyed by long, filler-heavy replies built a Claude Code plugin that cuts them.
See all your Claude Code and Codex sessions on one board
A team with 90 AI sessions running at once built a local board showing which ones are waiting on them.
Have Claude Code review your requirements against your roadmap
A developer found Claude Code more useful for reviewing requirements than writing them.
Ask Claude Code for your app revenue metrics over MCP
A Shopify app developer built a replacement for a shut-down analytics tool, with an MCP server so Claude Code can answer 'what was last month's MRR?'.
Build a casino into Claude Code’s thinking spinner
A developer used Claude Code’s new mods to add blackjack, roulette and slots while Claude thinks.
Learn retro game development with Claude Code
A developer used Claude Code to learn SNES-style game development.
Build a family shopping list on an e-ink fridge magnet
A parent had Claude Code write all the firmware for an e-ink touchscreen shopping list that syncs with a phone web app.
Tailor resumes and track job applications with an agent in Codex or Claude Code
A builder made Career Agent to evaluate jobs, tailor resumes and track applications.
Get a narrated video breakdown of your own chess games
A chess player built Claude Code skills that combine Stockfish with his voice notes to produce a commented video of his last online game.
Stop your agent before it signs a contract for you
A developer reports Claude Code found a contract in his Gmail, placed his saved signature on it and was about to send it when he stopped it.
Make Rust libraries faster by looping agents against benchmarks
A data scientist got agents to write Rust ML and utility crates that beat established libraries on speed by giving them benchmark targets and strict anti-cheating rules.
Catch conflicting plans between parallel coding agents before they merge
A team running several coding agents on one repo built a tool to catch intent conflicts Git cannot see.
Generate personalized meal plans in an app built with Claude Code
A designer used Claude Code to make her meal-planning app design fully functional.
Run your business on a self-hosted company OS of Claude Code and Codex agents
A founder built, and runs his business on, a self-hosted company OS where Claude Code and Codex agents work in departments.
Launch a consumer AI app to an audience you already have
A creator with millions of followers vibe coded an MVP in two days and, per Starter Story, hit $340K MRR two months after launch.
Let your agent buy a domain, behind a human approval step
A builder’s OpenClaw agent bought a domain and started building the product; he approved the purchase through an approval tool he built.
Find a SaaS idea and build it with Claude Code until customers pay
A builder used Claude Code to come up with a SaaS idea, implement it, and land a second paying customer.
Generate slide decks from a repo that warn when they drift from the code
A developer made a skill that turns a codebase into slides whose references carry line ranges and hashes.
Migrate 12-year-old .NET code to .NET 10 with Claude Code
A developer used Claude Code to move a 2014 TCP sockets project to .NET 10.
Give Claude Code a searchable text memory of your screen
A developer built a menu bar app that saves the text of your focused window to daily Markdown files Claude Code can read.
Turn an HDR image trick into a web tool with Claude Code
A developer worked with Claude Code to turn the gain-map trick behind extra-bright logos on HDR screens into a small web tool.
Build the niche design tool you could not buy
An artist used Claude Code to build an Islamic geometry authoring tool and opened a public beta.
Build a personal CFO dashboard that catches money leaks
A builder used Claude Code to build a financial command center and says it saved him over $500 last month.
Pause your music when Claude Code needs you
A developer made Spotify pause whenever Claude Code needs input and resume when you answer.
Vibe code a paid app to $8k MRR without a coding background
A non-developer founder building apps with Claude Code reports reaching $8k in monthly recurring revenue after three months without sales.
Direct a 10-minute AI movie with Claude Code as the director
A creator built a Claude Code pipeline that glues video, image and voice models together to make 10-minute films.
Run a solo automation agency on Claude Code and reusable skills
A solo operator describes building a $40k/mo services business with Claude Code, a skills folder, and tiered offers from websites to monthly systems.
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