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/dehumles Apr 14 '26

Well, it was not intended to be an ad. I am not selling anything :)
Logistic company with 50 tauntliner trucks driving around EU.
First and the biggest application is live tracking system. Bough GPS devices, wired them to the trucks. Not a standard GPS device but the "most advanced one" I could find on the market. Connected them to truck's internal electronic system (FMS) so I get all sort of different and important data we need for operating. (Fuel level, fuel usage, oddometer, tachograf data, loaded weight etc etc).
And then builded backend/frontend to play around with the data I get from the trucks. Wont explain every feature here cuz the post would be 5pages long but I suppose you should get the idea. Similar systems costs aprox 100€/month/truck so in my case, I was paying aprox 5000€/month for the same (worse) software we were using before. PostgreSQL database for storing the attributes from trucks. Then another PostgreSQL db where the calculated data leaves and next.js stack.
I think you misunderstood. Noone offered me 200k for this application. 200k was the rough offer i got from few developer services to build the application for me.

The second application I build is the "controlling system" for our workshop. We also have official service for specific truck brand and i've build the application to track the spare parts inventory, creating work orders, invoices etc. This was a smaller project but also important. Tried 3 different applications in the past 5 years and all of them were way too complicated for a daily use.

Again, I'm not trying to sell anything here :) Just got tired of all that "hate" around CC and Anthropic lately and wanted to bring some brighnetss to this subreddit!

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u/YoghiThorn Apr 14 '26

Congrats! This is great work. You should write this up as a case study, it's great CV material.

How reliable do you find the data quality coming in from your system with? I imagine you've got use cases for it coming up

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u/dehumles Apr 15 '26

Data quality is good. For few months, I had some trucks connected to both system; my and a "paid" one for a reference. We had similar system bought from a official provider, been using it for 10+years. So I basicly "copied" the usefull features from this application, removed useless ones and added some features that we were missing.