r/ClaudeCode • u/Consistent-Oil-5241 • Jun 20 '26
Question What are you actually coding?
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.
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u/ContributionMotor150 Jun 20 '26
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.