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.
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.
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- 21 HN points4 comments · fetched Oct 15, 2026
What they did
dawndrain uses Claude as director, gluing Seedance (video), Nano Banana (images) and ElevenLabs (voice). The repo has a Markdown playbook and a worked example.
How it went
He shared a first pass and the playbook for others.
Worth knowing
Generation costs add up; prototype short scenes first.
Builder recipe
Our own starting point, written from the source. Adapt it to your setup.
Stack
- Claude Code
- Video, image and voice APIs
- movie-gen playbook
Steps
- Pick a repeatable format.
- Let the agent generate drafts or assets from your inputs.
- Edit and check facts and rights before publishing.
- Reuse the template for the next piece.
Starter prompt
Write a 10-scene script for a 10-minute short about [idea], then a shot list with image prompts, video prompts and voice lines for each scene.Tags
Agent Claude Code
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- Hacker News: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978961 ↗ (opens in new tab) Jul 20, 2026 · 21 points, 4 comments (fetched 2026-10-15)
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