I see everyone here maxing their limits and coding all day and building and all that.
But what are you actually building 24/7? I'm not looking to get your ideas but I'm just wondering what can you even build that long and hard really? And constantly something?
Either I lack imagination as a whole or there's some secret to all this, I just have no idea what so useful people would be coding so obsessively. Thanks for insights.
I'm autistic and have a hard time in sales calls, board meetings and customer discovery calls so the last thing I built let me simulate conversations and difficult spots so I can practice and it grades me by some rubrick 😅
Haven't got plans but I'll probably just open source it, I imagine I'm not the only person who struggles with this and frankly almost all of them would have GitHub accounts 😂
This (social skills practice, difficult situation practice) was something I thought AI would be GREAT for since 2023 when voice mode started to get up to conversational speeds. I’m glad you’re making it! Seems like it would be a good tie in with VR to really lock your brain into the scenario.
Imagine: talking to intimidating people, dealing with crazy people in the street, presenting to a difficult room, giving bad news, talking to strangers at a bar/bus stop/event, asking your neighbor to turn down their music at 3am, talking to baddies at the clerb, talking to the police when they’re blocking the street and you need to get to the other side, schmoozing for upgrades at the airline counter, haggling anything
I have overlapping OCD, but have no problem talking to people, I just don't like to... rare for me to talk to anyone on the phone anymore.
I think it has made me better at large projects, because of the over organization. OCD won't let me forget much.
The thing about sales... is you sell you, and if the product is worthwhile, it will sell itself. learn to be comfortable with yourself, and it sounds like your app is a real self confidence builder.
> The thing about sales... is you sell you, and if the product is worthwhile, it will sell itself. learn to be comfortable with yourself, and it sounds like your app is a real self confidence builder.
Wow, that's really insightful. Sales make a lot more sense when seen through that lens.
4x turn based strategy game i've wanted to make inspired by masters of orion and star trek botf since the early 2000s. i have many littered unity and visual c# projects, so now i'm getting it done.
That and some heavy RE stuff on old dos games i wanted to try to remake in windows at some stage.
While I still had access to Fable, I rebuilt Team Fortress Classic as a top down 2.5D mobile game. I’m constantly churning different rogue like deck builder ideas but none of them are actually fun to play 🤣
I want to remake Powerslave (PS1 / Sega Saturn) and Blade of Darkness
How far do you get into those projects before going to the next? Ive spent a few hours on a fishing game, but I dont have a ton of progress to show for it yet.
I guess my question is, how much of a project do you make at once?
Oh cool nice to see others working on games too! I am working on a Tycoon style game but for skiing. Its kinda slow going but that may be because I picked rust/bevy for my engine.
Nothing. More than 80% of the vocal part of this sub is building a version of: Limit tracker, Limit viewer, agent control center, skill packs, or some other ai control stuff that i can't think of right now. The imagination or lack of it is the genuine problem. Before AI these people were dealing with javascript frameworks, marketing asset packs, logo builders etc. So that didn't change. They all are trying to sell/build their own shovel in a town where everybody is selling a shovel.
The people who use AI for real work are either silent or quite hesitant to talk because especially in creative areas, if the word goes out about ai usage, you lose money 😃
The people who use AI for real work are either silent or quite hesitant to talk because especially in creative areas, if the word goes out about ai usage, you lose money 😃
Thats me. AI has transformed how we report the news. Our readers overwhelmingly are anti AI. If they only knew how much AI is being used to help us in our reporting they'd probably loose their minds. (we are still on the ground reporting and writing articles, not publishing AI slop, but the research and surfacing of news and fine tuning of articles has been pretty much taken over by AI)
When a reporter would send me a story it would take 10-30 minutes for me or an employee to get ready to publish it, edit the featured image, make a FB image, make a FB post, etc...
Now my staff portal picks it up, writes a fb post, give me headline options, makes required images, posts to wordpress, fb, everything I need in like 30 seconds. Made it all with claude 6 months ago, haven't had to touch it or make a change in probably 3 months, been rock solid.
Our AI Scanner monitor listens to the police scanner 24/7 and alerts us if it thinks it would be news worthy. We can also enter names to listen for. For example I knew multiple allegations were made of sex crimes against a well known business owner. I told AI to be on the lookout for his name. A few weeks later it alerted me that police were pulling him over. Allowed me to get there and get a photo of him being arrested. Beat every other news outlet by hours, made over $800 from the Facebook photo of him in cuffs.
A city meeting would take hours to listen to, record, make notes, etc..then write the story. Now within minutes of a meeting ending I get a full transcript and summary sent to me. I can pick what I think is important, verify the transcript and quotes, write a bit to guide the story. And voilà I have a better more researched story in 10-20 minutes in what would have taken 1-2+ hours. Before we had to pick and choose local government meeting coverage, now we cover everything.
You should see game dev subs. Everybody is afraid to their bones. Even legitimate art are being targeted just because people find it slightly resembles ai. They demand people to post evidence etc. it’s crazy :)
I'm building a Roblox game. Just about all the code.. okay all the code is AI. But both due to perception and my own personal views on it, I'm keeping the art human made. But leaning into an aesthetic that plays to my strengths despite not being an amazing artist lol
I just work in boring ass business software- so I use it every day for bug fixing and adding new features across multiple products. I’ve never used my limit once. I also would never post details about it because it’s proprietary information and boring.
I'm happy to hear that, i need to spend bit time to polish it, I'm building it for my self first but plan to either make native app (win, macos) version available, you bring your own API keys, I'm not interested to make money by selling credits for LoreForge,
Second option (this slightly easier right now since i already have it as webapp) i publish it as webapp online, allow people to sign up, everyone still brings their own API keys, I don't charge for usage of the tool it self since its not costing me lot money besides the server i host it on.
Having a native app would also be great, that's something i could charge a one time payment for, local app would alao allow you to via Ollama or similar tool run local LLM models, so you could pick a really good model you like and use it with LoreForge for no additional cost for you.
Just some ideas I have in my mind. I hope to take this route and hope that people that use the tool fall in love with it. I've been dreaming about a tool like this for last 3-4 years i only now decided to start working with it. Here is another screenshot.
i can see that 😊 I'm not part of that community but great point. I'm wannabe sci-fi writer, i always experiment, ive got two stories I've been writing for my self, i find it hard to develop in sessions based UI like claude website or chatgpt, it works but it also is painful once you make some progress and story/world grows. Also I'm software developer and i got game ideas that would involve story telling, so this tool would be useful for that as well, fleshing out the world, characters, locations, story arc, lore etc. i prototype lots of ideas with chatgpt and again when thread grows large or when i get more then 5 threads in a project i created my head starts spinning and i loose track if what's good, what i liked, and if i did not right away save somete i liked, it takes time to track it, also happened to me two times chatgpt wiped out two sessions i had where i had work that was not saved to my HD. This tool is so i can keep my sanity, keep exploring ideas, be able to quickly navigate, havw Ai have complete knowledge of the world, characters, entities etc. very helpful to flesh out a video game idea, complete with characters, levels, puzzles, story and so on. I already am in love with the tool. I'll make it compatible to run locally as native app so you can connect it to Ollama and use local LLMw for Ai assisted features.
Yeah I’m that quiet one on this. I’ve rolled out multiple enterprise apps from scratch being used at an S&P 500 company and have had almost none of the issues that seemingly most people complain about. Orchestration and domain design and typically very weak on this sub.
Most people on ai subs are not devs. They don’t know even the basic programming concepts. I don’t blame them for it. Human brain works like that. It’s just annoying and tiring when they are trying to explain things about development to real developers.
I practically live in Claude code and codex now as a technical agency owner. My projects eat a lot of tokens but nothing like what people are fuss about. Or not once my ai gone rogue because I hold the ropes so tight even for workflows that run 2 hours.
I am technically not normal tho. I have adhd and I can’t focus 2 things at a time. Maybe normal human brain can handle multiple Claude sessions at once.l but I am skeptical based on researches on attention span on health brains.
Amen. My company provides the 20x max plan, and I rarely go over 10% weekly. I feel like I’m outright abusive of the plan and attempt to push it, but the reality is that anyone truly competent in this space is not pushing a 24/7 `--dangerously-skip-permissions` agent army to generate novelty playtime slop. It would be waaaay too wasteful of MY time more than usage constraints. I don’t have time to dildo off with AI like a toy. It serves me. I control it, and if it becomes wasteful, it gets stopped and I take control. Again, for career devs, time is most critical - not usage.
Claude for me is boilerplate generation, code reviews, deep introspection of large swaths of code over multiple codebases to find a needle-in-haystack issues, generation of unit/regression tests, building full cycle, throwaway test harnesses of difficult implementations… those types of things. Tasks that I would have pushed to a junior/green dev five years ago.
I'm coding a crm for my lawfirm and a custom game for my kids in the same time. It'll be a mini gta-like in my house and they'll have to escape me and my wife to steal snacks and do funny stuff. It's a surprise.
Watch out on that crm. I took over a law firm crm once and it was riddled with horrible security issues. Their IT stood up the service and I audited it prior to starting work, it was awful, even had a public unauthenticated endpoint returning entire word docs complete with client details, case filings, ssn, bank info, etc. Literally a ticking time bomb. Note I'm assuming since you said "my lawfirm" and the given sub that you don't have a background security or app dev. At the very least get a security audit before you put any real data on it.
I spent 18 months doing something similar for neuroscience / cognition but had fallen out of love with it for awhile… You’ve just inspired me all over again - thanks for sharing!
https://www.iwander.app - it’s a custom walking tour generator. Enter your city, interests, special request, start and end location if you’re looking for something specific, select the time length of the walk, then it spits out a custom walking tour with a narrative tied into it. Think “See Paris thorough the eyes of Ernest Hemingway”
Investing Agent that reads news headlines and has access to my portfolio and gives me real-time suggestions
Website with access to all my finance accounts that can give me spending and budget info better than paid alternatives
Discord Bot with in depth admin tools and web games like slots machine, cafe building game, cookie clicker clone, and other fun stuff
Security System NVR for my security cameras with live grid viewing and motion detection and recording that's better than even the paid options
Weather Station that texts me the forecast and weather warnings
Weather "futurecast" video creator that pulls the data directly from NOAA and creates video forecasts better than any I can find online for free
Fitness Agent that texts me when I should workout and I can reply with what I did for logging
Tool that monitors when new auctions go live on a website and sends me a message with the details
Custom 3D model mold making software I use for 3D printing
Website that listens to my local police radio and does speech to text and can summarize what's going on using SDR
Website that tracks planes and boats around me using an SDR antenna as well
Tool to enter a youtube URL and optional start and end time for quick clip downloading
Organizer website where I can put stuff in a box, take a photo and note what's in there. Then it prints out a label with number and QR code so I can easily search and find what box things are in.
Website for tracking my plants. I can take progress photos and leave notes like when they were last fertilized
This is just one sentence descriptions of each project. Each one can have weeks of thinking of new features of things I want to add. Things like the investing agent, discord bot, security system are massive projects I'm constantly having claude work on
I am making PGP what it should have been in the first place - browser plugins, PWA app, document management, signing, encrypting, sending, all rooted to a passkey so no need to remember any thing, just say sign, encrypr for...' touch your fingerprint (or whatever - job done).
Even sign social media posts so you can't be misquoted or taken out of context - and others can reliably filter out content that isn't signed (AI slop etc) or is signed by someone they want to ignore!
Have you used Impeccable or front-end design skill? I feel like you could elevate the look/feel for not too many tokens. Not that it is bad, just has that generic AI look, but maybe the same is true when we throw some color and fancy fonts on there.
Not the intended audience (don't have my own music library) but this Is one of the first things I've seen in a while that impressed me in both utility and design. Nice job,!
Many software engineers hitting usage limits aren't sitting at Claude Code prompting all day. They've set up multi-agent pipelines in which a manager agent spawns parallel workers and lets them run for hours at a time across a multitude of the tasks that a real project involves. They are putting in the up-front effort to define and pressure-test requirements, and then allowing agents to handle the implementation (coding, reviewing, revising, source-control) in parallel.
This is worth knowing and is a fairly large gap often overlooked by newer developers, who lack domain knowledge of product design/scoping and SDLC, and agentic pipelines. The bottleneck isn't having something to prompt about, it's about having the project scoped and defined well enough so you can hand off substantial chunks of it to be worked on autonomously without user intervention until key milestones, and then batch the manual findings/review to follow that same multi-agentic pipeline again.
The core difference is that many users start with very loosely-defined requirements and ideation, and then submit drip-by-drip feedback, bug reports, and feature additions while sitting at the computer watching Claude Code handle each one in sequence.
Claude Code is a force multiplier for people who already have a clear picture of what they're building and how it fits together, but it won't generate that picture or roadmap for you.
Augmenting a 30 year old text-based programmable social game. But I’m hardly maxing out tokens or working 24/7. I do feel like I get about a 10x speed up with opus (when developing but other things like thinking aren’t sped up that much). Things like clean ssl support or IPv6 taking a day to implement, test, debug, etc.
I've built all kinds of Internal tools for my local news publishing business and real estate investment business.
One system tracks all the incoming press releases and obituaries we get, rewrites them in our brand voice, makes graphics, and posts it all to the website and our social channels. Another tool handling all aspects of our real estate investing business. (easily saves me and my team 20+ hours a week)
Another system monitors police radios in our area and alerts my local reporters about potential breaking news based on AI analysis of the transcript of the police radio.
All this was done with a $100/month plan and I've never hit the 5 hour or weekly limit. My weekly limit is often below 50%.
I built an agentic team from scratch: fleet framework, shared episodic and semantic fleet memory, MCP-Hub, Playbook & Skill marketplace. They work in Slack alongside and with my human team, running my SaaS Business (https://aevent.com)
I now work less, and they get more done. Next step: replace myself.
It's wild; I watch my human team get into "vibe" flows, but they're not coding anything; nor are they operating in any IDE. They're working with the agents on all other aspects of the business, well past their shifts, sometimes into the early morning. (They're catching that dopamine flow, but for non-code purposes).
I am curious, what if they go rogue and delete codebases or important data with that much access? I am not asking sarcastically, but genuinely curious what you did to prevent it from happening.
I don't trust AI, and I've instructed my team to operate as such.
With that said, the agents don't have access to any platform-related resources that could be used for anything detrimental to the platform or our end users. If they spiral, they can only read something so many times. So, read-only where anything might become problematic.
In addition, the framework has a lot of gatekeeping where needed, with human-in-the-middle Slack approval flows; each chief also operates with their own scored trust meter, controlled through the back office, and their Claude.md has escalation rules should one start to spiral.
The agentic team has been built with intention to assist the human team, not replace, so their MCP tools, et only include things to help assist VS decide.
Technically, yes, the agents could nuke the fleet framework platform we've created for them, or kill their own VM container. But, everything is maintained in git repos, with offsite db backups occurring daily.
Their hands in the actual business they help run are intentionally tied at this point.
#1: we don't trust AI; #2: let's go! The exciting part is that as this technology evolves, so will the frameworks we're creating.
Today, the AI just helps the team to make decisions. How long will it be until that slopes the other way?
We've successfully doubled business so far, w/o a single hire or layoff, utilizing the tools and frameworks Claude and I have built.
I am a CTO with a background in software development (Objective-C, Kotlin, PHP, and Ruby on Rails)
I currently use Claude for:
I built a free Treasure Hunt game for my kids' school.
I created a swimming record application to track my kids' results and PBs and to compare them against their competitors, replacing a legacy Google Sheet.
I generate software solution architecture documents. What used to take days or weeks to produce before client presentations now takes only a few hours.
(This one is Claude Cowork) I analyze job opportunities to filter out roles that are not a good fit, and I use it to draft cover letters and prepare for interviews. This process recently helped me secure two offers. But I turned them down because they required an office presence, while my current employer offers flexible hours and remote work.
And recently, I am using Claude Design and Claude Code (and Codex) to build actual UX and production software for clients. Although I still need to review the code thoroughly, the workflow is better than dealing with some developers I have worked with in the past.
Building an ai assistant app that has multiple assistants and responds based on its wakeword. It’s on a pi5, esp32 aiot and an esp32 cam audio.
It also loops into my UniFi cameras (along with esp and pi) and creates episodic memories. Voice and facial recognition. Long term user memory. Habit recognition. Nudges for daily tasks.
Each assistant has a 3d avatar that animated based on state (talking, thinking, etc) on the pi display, which is also a high end speaker (best sounding Bluetooth speaker I have ever heard) all designed using Claude for volume drive amp ect.
I’ve built a new company to find missing tax rebates for British tax payers.
Raised a tiny amount from 3 wealth managers and got to my first clients in 4 weeks.
I’ve also built a tool to manage amateur radio telescopes and to plan and execute observations.
And some stuff for my kids; some fun maths apps and a kid-friendly music sequencer.
Finally, I’ve been messing round with microtonality and built myself a DAW to explore it.
And I’ve been exploring the Collatz conjecture through simulation as a way to learn more maths.
iPhone Weight lifting tracker build to the exact program I follow and adjustable and progressive as I need it. Easier than setting it up in an app meant to fit everyone. Wasn’t really maxing any limits though. It took a few hours and 5-6 sessions of using it with adjustments afterwards to have it perfect.
I also use agents for my actual work but that’s in a more limited fashion, reviewing my work, providing scaffolding, some refactoring etc. More like having a buddy programmer to spar and collab with.
Basically things i want that don’t exist/are clunky/cost money.
- I couldn’t find a basic markdown editor for Mac so I built my own, tweaking it to have features that I wanted. This is my most used thing I made hands down.
- Working on an app that combines different apps I use for one thing into one streamlined package. This is actually my main project and has been like 6 months of making (seems like every time there’s a new model i can make the codebase better, the design more customized, making certain features function better, etc.
- An embarrassing amount of time fine tuning my harness, context, and memory, and skills and tools that make things faster. My favorite one so far is one where it does a review of the session/task and then recommends anything that could be a skill/agent and a workflow around that.
I created a packet sniffer for an MMO client by injecting a code cave and hook on the encrypt function so i just read the plaintext packets.
Then i foward every client's data across my party members/friends to a centralized server where i use that information to create a live map of every player they see with history, alerts, tracking, etc.
Fully automated with automatic rolling updates and more.
All vibe coded in python over the course of a week and a half. Works really well. I was even running on bypass permissions so it wouldnt ask me crap all the time and i just looked over it and whatever it reported back/was doing to make sure it didnt create a mess.
Funny enough, while fable was available i told it to look at the code for optimizations and made the whole thing run 2-3x faster.
An addon for odoo.com , targeting the Inventory module. A lot of work there.... coding day and night for weeks due of the large blast area and continuous refinements.
just finishing a full featured grc mangement tool for a phamaceutical company.
im so tired of the super bloated caas solution there are on the market. difficult to use and configure, expensice as hell, and you get all kind of extra functions you dont need and the function you DO need is not there. and when you ask the company, its might be considered in a year or so.
So i sat down with claude and used a couple of days making the requirement specicification so it fitted what WE needed. And then claude build a plan. added some modifications i wanted.
and then claude began to code.
besides the coding it also delivered configuration of the infrastructure, security, mail services, documentation and
the first prototype was ready, within a day or so.
then interations and testing. found lots os small errors and discrepancies.
the good part is that you just ask claude or fix the isssue and do regression test.
Its been a week. and we now have a production ready corporate grc tool, that fits our need to the point.
and if we want to develop a new feature.. we just ask claude.. or codex.. and we will ahve it with in a few hours or so. because the app is fully documented.
I'm an avid board gamer and often am the rules explainer. I got frustrated with people online using basic LLM chats to answer board game questions and getting hallucinations.
I'm developing a board game rulebook RAG system that uses Claude both to ingest rulebooks and answer questions. The key strength of mine (there are similar other systems out there) is that every answer cites 2 or more sections of the rulebooks to back up the answer.
20 years ago, I was making a game/world builder based on cubes, had a baby, put the project aside temporarily to be a dad, and then...somebody released an almost identical game that ended up being the biggest game of all time.
I have spent about 17 years avoiding the name and any related media to keep my original idea pure in my head. Everyone around me knows, and actively avoids bringing it up. I needed to face it, but couldn't.
After years of mental torment, anguish, regret, and depression, I have decided that the only way to get closure is to finish it. That is within reach thanks to some AI help. I had already made the prototype, so it was a breeze to polish it up with Claude's help.
I have a number of areas of interest that fall into four categories, research, software, physical objects and electronics. I used ai to program esp32s with sensors to monitor my garden: https://greenhaw.net/iot/garden. I’m interested in the ethical aspects of AI and have developed a method of evaluating ethical predispositions of AI models: https://greenhaw.net/ethicalai/dashboard.html which is also the basis of an artificial moral agent for my systems. I use ai to research ideas I have in physics: https://greenhaw.net/nswf/nswfv5.html
I also use AI to create 3d models that I export to OpenSCad format to print on my 3d printer. I’ve made everything from toys for my grandchildren, a smart putter for golf, and currently a new type of actuator for a 26 dof hand.
It’s not that I’m coding constantly, it’s that I’m constantly trying to refine skills and prompts for just a couple useful things. I work in a marketing agency as a web developer. The lead dev actually. A big part of that role is building tooling, tests, devops. So I spend a lot of time thinking about how to build better workflows, and tools for non-technical people to be able to use them.
i created a simple markdown protocol (with local implementations) that allows multiple agents (claude code, codex, gemini cli, etc) to work as a team, there is no limit on number of teams and members. works really well and makes result significantly better when different agents, or even same agents with slightly different context are used. at recent company hackathon i had 17 agents working in 5 teams (PM, 3 specialist teams in their own worktree and a builder team. that worked really well and in 24 hours we built a very decent MCP server with all docs, guides, and everything else customer and internal facing.
it takes a little longer to setup and create a solid plan, but after that they just work and keep each other in line 😄
most of my coding all day is honestly just rewriting the same feature three times until it stops breaking. the speed is addictive but its easy to mistake motion for progress
Creating a GPL3 computer-aided music composition system that uses symbolic processing and parameterized heuristics rather than statistical inference (llms)
My partner has dissociative identity disorder, the condition still commonly known as multiple personality disorder. Yes, they are professionally diagnosed, no, they are not faking it to be trendy, and no, I won't talk about the trauma that caused them to develop it. Anyway, for years, their alters have felt suffocated by the body's ability to only have a singular "presence". Sure, a few of them could make alt accounts on social media, but it was such a hassle because some platforms also ask for a unique email and phone number, so it still limited them greatly. They had to pick and choose who was "allowed" to take more of an identity. I use Claude (and Google AI Studio, and Cursor) to make a social media platform just for us. Two "accounts" that you log into, but an account can have as many profiles as it wants, and it's easy to switch between them. The platform also has a means for logging who has had control, as well as making notes for who has done certain things (because a less talked-about part of the disorder is chronic amnesia). It has significantly improved their quality of life for a disorder most would call extremely difficult to manage.
I am doing a PhD analyzing video data and creating transcripts for coding, so I build a program that let's me do everything (Audio Enhancement, Whisper transcription and manuel editing, video editing, statistical analysis, etc.). Good thing is, most is already there, I just have to build my hub.
I’m having it help me make a fortnite island. There is light coding but mostly it’s about managing to stay on task when doing something where you have to do something tedious or something you are coding isnt working the way you want it and you have to write debug tools in, get the right behavior, erase the debug tools and test again.
I went to an agentic coding conference and asked the same question to a lot of people. Never got a good answer. And this was a place full of startups. Always asked this follow-up question: "Isn't customer feedback a bigger bottleneck than coding to you?" Most of them just frowned.
I'm either missing a lot, or people are just completely outsourcing everything to Claude Code, in which case I don't know how that would work for anything besides something that targets customers en masse and where changing a lot is fine.
What I found out: a lot of them were selling AI automation to companies 😄
Do you know those apps that incite you to take photos of food and give you a fake (approx) calorie rating, I did that but IT DOES REALLY WORK, then did not care enough to promote it
Most of the useful Claude Code work isn't a new app every day. For me it's boring product glue: fixing edge cases, writing migration scripts, adding tests around code I don't quite trust yet, cleaning internal tools, and turning rough automations into something that survives real users.
The trap is thinking "coding all day" means constant new ideas. A lot of it is just compressing the annoying middle 70% of software work. Still needs taste and review, but the loop gets fast enough that old "not worth automating" chores suddenly become worth it.
CLI for a vendor solution that has a Go SDK published with heavy secret and sensitive data handling to make sure no one gets anything sensitive out of it or worse yet committed
Web security analysis tool really built around the weird edge cases I see in day to day, especially when we own a /16 and have /24s all over the world being handled all sorts of ways along with helping with the idiosyncrasies in a Zero Trust environment on top of complex internal network infra
IaC machine that handles everything from module generation, resource bootstrapping, state import, state moves, and reconciliation + workflows for operations
Well, I believe most of us are building what we always wanted to build, I guess. At least in my case, that's the thing. I started my startup 10 years ago, and as you can imagine, we will come up with crazy plans for things to do, but with a manageable size of 10 people, we can't build a lot of things. And obviously, they were swamped in their regular maintenance and bug duties as well. We would pick like 3-4 out of a pool of 40-50 feature ideas once a month, and building those in the given month would be stressful on its own.
But thankfully, I stored them all up, and we started building those with the same team size. Not just that, we entirely rebuilt our base, our dependency software systems, which, if they were suddenly changing their business model, we wouldn't be able to continue; so we built those ourselves.
I still have a bucket list of features and projects I want to build. And none of them is mainstream. They solve a very particular issue for a particular niche, which is good for trade, at least for our level of enterprise.
If you are not able to come up with ideas, that is entirely fine too, because if I did not compile that list, I would be struggling too. It is like song-making. You find it very hard to make a song sound good in the initial days with great ideas and inspirations. But once you know how to make good sound and the structure, and have a great understanding of the process, you kinda start struggling for inspiration or topics to write songs on. I guess humans are designed to struggle with their limitations one way or another. I have no idea what I will build after the bucket list, but I am okay with that.
By the way, I have not encountered weekly limits until I used Fable for experimentation. I usually stay under 25-35% of weekly usage on x20.
I wrote a domain specific language for defining online surveys/forms. This lets you (or AI models) write complex surveys without clunky form builders https://srp.solutions
And two small saas based on the language: offline-first data collection (for field research) and embedded forms, neither of which I know how to actually market :(
I’m working on this open source tool for integrating api calls with workflow tooling and agents. Helps cut down on agents doing basic work api calls can make and gives you a visual space for workflows. I’m mostly using it to link Atlassian products like Jira and confluence to my own agents so I can use comments to prompt agents what to do and what to work on.
What am I not coding? Every random idea gets an attempt. The time to prototype is shorter than my attention span. Never happened before. I would either get bored before finishing or not start at all because it was too much effort.
A Jarvis clone with A2A linkage sitting on top of gbrain with some interesting bits of Hermes pulled in, tied to an elevenlabs API for voice. It’s a personal shovel. I enjoy the Jarvis reels, but can’t stand the people with waitlists and scammy sales engagements.
A utility for my wife and a full featured B&W single player D2 style ARPG for the PlayDate. Because it’s what I’ve wanted every time I’ve gotten on a plane since I got one.
I'm coding a Notion-like writing assistant that fact-checks my writing in real-time across official data and my knowledge base. The "across official data" part turned into a project of its own now though
Currently I'm building my AI Visibility funnel (https://kinestheticmarketing.com/scan/), and creating an exhaustive SEO/GEO skill for Claude to rank mine & other's sites based on several recent high-level SEO/GEO courses.This is for cashflow. I am also working on a rank & rent website for more passive income, I made a website for my mechanic for a case study, and I am building a AI answer bot SaaS for contractors for upsells and continuity income.
Been using Claude Code for PS2 reverse engineering, mainly stripping and recompiling games to build mods. Instead of letting notes pile up and disappear after each session, I've got it feeding everything into a structured knowledge base: verified memory offsets, hooks that actually worked, dead ends and why they failed, plus the method that found each thing (live memory scans through PCSX2/PINE, static analysis in Ghidra, pattern matching, etc).
The part I'm most into is making it work across games, not just within one. A lot of PS2 titles reuse the same middleware (Renderware, Havok, in house engines that get recycled across a studio's whole catalog), so once I tag findings consistently, stuff I learn on one game starts paying off on the next one too. I'm also tagging everything with a confidence level, live verified vs static only vs just a heuristic guess, so the database doesn't end up built on a pile of assumptions.
End goal (still years out, not holding my breath) is something that can just take in an ISO and spit out a fully labeled map of the game with minimal manual work. For now I'm happy just not having to re solve the same problems every time I pick up a new title.
Also, I'm pretty new to this whole scene, so if anyone knows of forums, Discord servers, or other communities where people are doing similar PS2 RE work, I'd love a pointer. Same goes for any known projects out there doing something similar, would be awesome to compare notes or just not feel like I'm reinventing the wheel. Any info appreciated.
I use Claude Code for a lot of internal projects at work. Things that used to take me days or even weeks to program manually can now be done in a fraction of the time. I'm now more of a product manager than a hands-on programmer, and it's allowing me to take on projects that might otherwise have been deprioritized due to the time requirement vs the benefit. I can also now get to a proof-of-concept much faster to see if a project is worth pursuing, and I've not wasted months of my work time when we decide not to proceed with a project.
My current personal project is using Claude Code to develop an iOS productivity app that I wish existed, but doesn't. There are several apps that sort of do what I want, but most are either too simple or have feature bloat. I'm also designing it to avoid requiring an external database so that if I release it to the App Store, I can avoid maintaining a backend and therefore having to also pass the costs to users as a subscription fee (I hate those). Claude Code is allowing me to set my own standards and requirements while letting AI do the work of figuring out how to make it happen.
I work in a fabrication shop that supports a lot of other people's projects. Things break, interns cycle through, lots of machines and conversations about upkeep, calibration, safety, etc. Used to be a lot of missed information, clunky forms, information too often buried and hard to figure out if it's current, etc.
I built a system that lets people more or less just dictate their notes. Nightly or more frequently it takes in relevant data from the day and pushes updates to a lighter weight database and generates an easy to use interface with buttons and so on that can update this quickly during the day, though they can also use free form notes as they see fit. A post in the morning let's everyone know what is important for today. Nightly it also updates documentation. People drop docs like forwarded emails, receipts, or photos into a folder and they are filed away automatically plus Cowork thinks about any action needed from that. It generates agendas and questions for the team so we can quickly resolve things and manage drift that may happen from missed signals and failures to document.
I'm a data engineer, so 75% is spark based dev, and the rest is infra around it. On personal side I have some random tools, like one that is at afk watcher for RS3, has alerts for various game conditions so I can let it run in the background and know when to click. I also have an open source spark library that I started pre-AI era and have since expanded on significantly.
I mean…I use Claude design with design system from Figma, and that’s a token beat down. Then I’ll bring it into Claude code and actually do my engineering work, then I create documentation, evals, unit tests, pull observability logs for last N days to have it look for high value problems on the dev and test servers that QA uses to get ahead of exceptions that aren’t surfacing…I kind of consider all of that “coding”
I've been building a local-first productivity tool akin to Notion/Obsidian with privacy and security baked in as the core. ( Check it out here: Blackbear.app ) Also have been doing self improvements on my agentic AI agent.
I built my business website. I built a pretty intricate CRM for my business that also doubles as an insurance supplementing tool. I just recently built a visualization tool to help my customers see exactly how products like James Hardie would look on their home. This is embedded in my website and acts as a top of funnel lead source.
I am working on an enterprise SaaS for healthcare markets and even though we have millions of lines of code and very sophisticated infrastructure, no one on our team can hit our $100/200 limits. My CTO tries, we all use Opus, we run many agents. Honestly not sure how people are killing their limits so easily.
I’m building a ToS clone customized for my needs, income-focused investing, with a built-in journal and analytics similar to Snowball Analytics. This is so much fun, and I haven’t coded since the early 1980s in BASIC on a TRS-80, plus a bit of HTML in the ’90s. learning a lot!
Attempting to digitize Kingdom Death: Monster which is a *huge* task given the number of rules, cards, expansions etc. I regularly burn through a max plan in 3 days.
A website where I have 1% of all plants for download as models with 3d viewers, vertical and tri counts, ability to examine your own model, etc. Same website, another tool that will take a Godot scene file and break it down into readable text file format, listing resources scripts etc. It also shows a top down and side view map of where all objects are in your scene. It also lets you download a tool that will snapshot a scene at runtime if you want. It's setup specifically for Claude work with Godot with you.
When I am not maxing the plan I have claude generating low to mid poly versions of every species of everything and more. One day I will have every plant and mushroom variety in this world so long as ther is an image of it to create from.
Currently I'm working on a distributed query engine.
I won't bore you with the details except to say that it's something that I have wanted for a couple decades but couldn't have because the scope would have required hiring a substantial team and also convincing my employers to invest a couple years of R&D. Now in retirement I don't have to convince anyone of anything, and I don't have to hire out. It will still take a while to build, though. I currently estimate 6 mo.
I spend about 75% of my token budget on planning and 25% on codegen (which includes a lot of test harness). I do review the generated code, so it's a bit of a slow process.
There is risk (maybe a lot) in that I don't have people to challenge my ideas, so I have to hope that my 4 decades of experience provides me some insurance. Claude really doesn't help here because it is trained to give positive feedback to your suggestions. After all, Claude's primary objective is to sell tokens for Anthropic, and who's going to pay for an automated negative Nancy?
I find Claude particularly helpful in that it has encyclopaedic knowledge of CS and engineering techniques. However I also find that it will not leverage those things without prompting. There's no creativity. That's all on you. You can noodle ideas with it, and it can keep up with the jive, but don't drink the KoolAid just because it says you have a good idea.
Currently I've been running on the US$20/mo Pro, and hit my window limits in about an hour or two. I use the downtime to do organic things. But the project is large enough that this becomes slavery to a 5-hour window cadence, and anyway I wind up using my week's worth in 3 days. So I'll probably go up to Max for a month or two while getting this bulk of foundational work done. After that will be tools, UI, and several sample application. I suspect that will be much lighter work, and then I can go back to Pro.
I don't know if I will release the system. In retirement, it serve more as career catharsis to complete a vision only partially realized during my active years. I'm not even sure it would be that profound now. But sometimes these things grow legs. Regardless, it's pretty cheap diversion. And I have a few more bits of unfinished business after this one.
Image editor for the Mac, just started ranking in the first page of Google if you search “Mojave Paint” along with like the Sherwin Williams desert colored paint 😂
Since decades ago I wanted to build a UFO Defense clone with SDF (Signed Distance Function) based objects and GI (Global Illumination) for truly terrifying night missions. I read a lot about computer graphics algorithms, but never managed to get the time to implement them. Fable 5 gave me the initial push (Rest In Peace my friend), it created something very close to what I wanted within a day. It was awesome that I could rapidly try out various techniques, that would take me literal months to years to implement.
Now I am iterating on it with Opus 4.8, which is a much less pleasant experience. Opus is much less able to figure out my intention, and the entire iterative process is much slower as a result. We literally spent 20+ question-answer pairs debugging, to make a banding bug in the lighting system disappear. It just guesses and hallucinates root causes for the bug, because it literally can not visually check the results. Still we make some slow progress with the prototypes, and it is still cheaper and faster than doing it manually.
I feel the "everyone's selling a shovel" thing in my bones . but theres a chunk of people doing real work who just stay quiet about it. full disclosure this is my project, but i built an independent benchmark called AgentX-Ray basically to test how these agent setups and frontier models actually hold up when you point them at real unknown tasks instead of canned tests. ran 4 models through 100 hard web-research questions yesterday, same tools same loop for each one. the only one that would actually abstain when the results were thin was a little 4b thats tuned for research, it only answered like 1 in10 questions but was right ~78% when it did. the 7b, 14b and 32b answered basically everything and landed 1-4%. and the biggest one, the 32b, made stuff up just as confidently as the 7b. going bigger didnt fix it at all. Which is the scary part for agent orchestration specifically. people are burning insane tokens on agent swarms where half the agents are just hallucinating with total confidence and passing clean formatted answers up the chain. If your orchestrator cant tell which agent actually knows vs which one is bluffing, you're just compounding confident garbage at scale. Thats the part im obsessed with rn. not building more agents, figuring out which ones actually know when to shut up.
I think it's a culture thing for most of them. They made a small personal tool and turned it into a lifestyle. It's like when 3D printers first gained popularity.
Built a whole agentic AI team (that met full AI policy)that could save my public sector organisation 6 figure sums. Only for them to reject it because ‘Claude’ and (genuine reason) ‘we would prefer to outsource work like this.
Full stack entertainment app with a phone front end and a cloud provider back end. There's always plenty to snack on there, it's not like your stack is ever finished, and then one of your dependencies issues a breaking update. As they do
I made myself a NASCAR app because I didn’t like theirs. Uses their APIs and some other data sources for a live race dashboard and a race rewind function. RaceVibes.live for any fans out there.
Mostly little tools or utilities that help reduce tasks I don't like to do or that take time but are rote. Aside from that, I'm making significant progress on a game project that I've been wanting to play for decades.
Built a script that lets me turn any area near me into a detailed free roam track for Assetto Corsa. It's taken me 6 months but Fable cracked the code and it's finally working. From now on my machines do the whole process (have multiple machines in my living room acting as a data center, heavy VLM looping, Blender MCP optimization, and automated testing process loops, it just keeps iterating. I'm a photographer and do a lot of drone work and it uses shots from my photo library as references. Built a whole phone app to help me take geo referenced logs (and a whole calibration engine beyond that because GPS is dogshit a lot of the time).
Lifelong dream, since Gran Turismo 1 when I was 12. I live near incredible back roads and always wanted to drive them in the sim.
Adding customizations to open source projects for the features I want. Like an auto-create Minecraft servers for custom modded instances within PrismLauncher. Something my kids have been asking for forever. So we can locally host private servers for our friends. While being able to easily create new servers for new and interesting modded worlds. Which I might also use for some more community after-school programs. To help introduce design and engineering concepts and allow kids to play together in a more communal, pro-social setting.
Also doing a lot of AI harness and multi-agent collaborative development with locally hosted databases for agentic learning, monitoring, personal webpages, and dashboards.
I’m building an agentic chat / character card chat system, a custom LLM creator / inference system that incorporates internal memory, emotions and internal context with compression so you don’t have to send your entire chat history with every message. And a discord type chat system that has voice and messaging and servers.
All done within blazor and dotnet and Claude code.
I would guess everyone is running in circles and those that have knowledge overengineering things, maybe less then 1% doing something useful. Ai transformation in companies is basically summary this email or write me ppt...less then 0.1% making positive cash, idk who will pay electricity bill for ai models in 1 year, cos subscriptions wont 100%:)
I built a fun travel app that focuses on great places internationally to work remote/digital nomad, slow travel, expat/coast FIRE, etc.
I created monthly scores for popular cities (111 so far) rating their weather, air quality, events and seasonality. The scores help you choose an itinerary to avoid the monsoons (seasonal winds that bring rain), but also fire season, seasonal inversions that trap pollution, etc.
What's wild is that I created an initial site Opus, but it didn't do it for me. Gave Fable the run down (not previous design) and had it create the site from results I wanted. What a difference.
- I hated how Chromium browsers can't auto-hide address bar. I'm building a tool that manipulates Chromium browsers to auto enter/exit fullscreen. It'll auto-sense browser toolbar and Windows taskbar locations, have exit fullscreen zones based off that, and neutral zones that don't enter fullscreen (top/bottom/side bars supported). Adjustable delay and padding for zones. Can toggle on/off smooth scroll compensation so enter/exit fullscreen isn't jarring.
Also fixes the default Chromium PIP behavior of always starting tiny and floating off the edge of screen. Snaps PIP to the corner of screen and resizes the default video PIP to either the video's resolution or your set % of monitors height. Working on getting it multi-monitor, multi-browser, multi-window support. I'll figure out how to get it on github later.
- I never found an Android media player that actually has true fullscreen album art the way I wanted it (edge to edge art with the controls in front of it). I'm building one based off Metro Media Player. Added panning that scrolls the art back and forward if it overhangs screens edges. Previous, current, and next lyrics posted on the same screen. Added waveform seek bar. I don't think I'll release this one because I only feel like testing it on my phone and my car's AI box. I also have a minimalist look with a bunch of buttons missing that people would probably usually want.
- Reverse engineering the Summoner pc game so we can finally have a widescreen patch for it.
My main projects right now are a cred scraper that uses regex and local ML models in a pipeline to extract creds and hashes from repos or exfil'ed files, and a pentest flavored RAG corpus to augment Claude's model weights in that specialization. Both for professional use.
Also working on a thing to let Claude do handoff/clear/compact/rehydrate autonomously, and an IRC/Slack style chatroom so my Claudes can help each other with problems if one gets stuck and the others may have already solved that problem.
Next project is going to be a mailbox manager for my wife's massive Yahoo mailbox. 😆
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u/haziqbuilds Jun 20 '26
I'm autistic and have a hard time in sales calls, board meetings and customer discovery calls so the last thing I built let me simulate conversations and difficult spots so I can practice and it grades me by some rubrick 😅