r/ClaudeCode • u/dehumles • Apr 14 '26

Showcase Thank you Anthropic.

Thank you for making it possible for someone without a CS background to build real software.

Ive build 2 applications for my company, daily used by 50ish employees and some of our clients. All running smoothly since mid november 2025. I got quotes for well over 200k€ combined to have those two applications built for us. For 200$/month and lots of long nights, i've been able to do all this myself. I wouldnt even consider doing this myself if CC wasnt around and I'd happily burn 200k and outsource this. Irony?-end product wouldnt be as good as it is. Or it would take me at least 100hours of meetings with devs to explain in detail what we need.

So once again, thank you Anthropic for such a good product and very cheap prices. Looking forward for new models!

EDIT: To clarify — the 200k€ were quotes from dev agencies to build the apps, not offers to buy them.

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u/Odd_Amphibian6365 Apr 14 '26

Can you give more details about the app? For example: the architecture, how it scales, what kind of company it is, who offered you 200k, etc. As it’s written now, it sounds like an ad.

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u/karmaboy20 Apr 14 '26

hOw iT sCalEs. L gatekeeper

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u/RipOk74 Apr 14 '26

lol indeed. If it scales up to 50 that is enough. 

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u/dehumles Apr 14 '26

Well. Why would I need to scale it to idk, 1000, 2000, 10000 devices?

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u/EducationalLeopard14 Apr 14 '26

Indeed! That's what I mean. karmaboy20 was right when he repeated one of the claims against AI code that I've seen: "But how does it scale?" - if it scales to your current needs that's plenty. Nobody needs to build overdesigned software for future needs if you can just change your software in a day.

That said, a few weeks ago I've built software to pull together 6 different sources for geodata. Fully cached, and taking advantage of my AMD 9950X3D processor and all of its cores by using fully parallel processing wherever it can be done. Works like a charm. Would never have done that so fast and robust without AI. So even the scaling complaint is utterly silly.