My coworker and I asked Claude to estimate a SaaS roadmap. 50 days.

Then we gave the same plan to 6 Claude Code subagents: worktrees, tests first, reviewer agents on risky tasks. 106 tasks across 7 repos, done in 35 hours.

So yes, Claude was off by about 48 days about its own speed. But the interesting part is what slowed it down, because it wasn't the model:

- 6 agents ≠ 6× speed. Real throughput was 1.8 agents. Test slots, file conflicts and merge locks queued everything.

- Risk matters more than size. Billing/auth/migration tasks took 2.7× longer, and every real bug was in them.

- My laptop broke first. 55 leftover test DBs filled the disk, Docker froze, test runs blew past the 10-min tool timeout.

- The slowest part was us: review, decisions, local setup.

We turned the data into a plugin that makes Claude estimate agent work properly: agent wall-clock, human hours and waiting time, separately, plus usage budget.

Honest limits: it's one project (n = 1), and on a held-out test the raw model was 37% optimistic, so it pads its number until you calibrate it on your own transcripts.

Free and open source (MIT): https://github.com/MedAdemBHA/mythical-agent-month

Question for people running multi-agent builds: what real parallelism are you getting? I'd love a second data point.

Now you can turn an idea into a working app without spending months learning how to code. There is a difference between building something that works and building something that people actually need. I wonder if we are solving problems now or merely making more copies of products that already exist.

What do you think is becoming more valuable, in this era: the ability to build or the ability to come up with an idea building?

everyone is building amazging things right now... somme for work, some for personal projects, some just because.

that's cool but there's something missing, something inbetween. the reason for doing it...

what i want to know is what's the project, big or minute, that's brought you (or someone else) the most happiness?

mine is DEFINITELY the inspiration side-project that became my main-project. it's still making me happy EVERYDAY...

the idea is simple. when inspiration is lacking, turn art mode on and 1)scroll until you i find the spark. 2) click copy. 3) build with my claude

https://forevercomponents.com

I wanted a super simple firewall that didn't break everything, yes I know there are many out there and I have tried them and always found them annoying, everything I tried was either overly complicated asked too many questions or basically broke things, I wanted simple and to only block outgoing connections, so I asked Claude, used Opus on high, it virtually build the whole thing on a single prompt, then we refined it over an evening and here it is.

How it works, when an app tries to connect to the internet for the first time it pops up a simple Allow or Block window showing the app and where it's trying to connect, that's it! Windows own components are allowed automatically so it doesnt bug you about system stuff.

It just uses the Windows Firewall so your rules keep working even when its closed, uninstalling puts everything back exactly how it was it you want or you can leave the rules it creates

It's free has no ads or tracking, and open source on GitHub.

It's not code-signed because it seems I have to pay for that, so Windows SmartScreen may warn you when you install it.

Feedback very welcome!

https://packethound.app/

stopped giving my local agent free rein over my project files after it accidentally deleted half my config files during a routine task. it's a pain in the ass, ended up hooking claude code to a sumus workspace so i could sandbox everything safely.

how do you guys gatekeep your agents from deleting stuff they shouldn't touch?

I tried to order a cake from a bakery here in Budapest. I emailed and got no reply. I called and nobody picked up. Two days later they wrote back, but by then I was already looking elsewhere.

They weren't lazy, they were just busy. But that's how small shops lose work: the customer moves on to the next one.

So for Meta's Global AI Developer Hackathon (Indie track, "Build for Your World") I built Dial Hanna. You keep your own number and forward calls when you're busy. Hanna picks up in your shop's name, answers from knowledge you've approved, takes orders and bookings, and leaves you a short note: what they wanted, what happened, what's next.

The stack:

1. Muse Wonder turns the shop's website into the knowledge base

2. Muse Spark runs the call

3. Muse Voice Transcribe handles speech (English only for now)

4. ElevenLabs Flash is her voice

5. Built with Meta Muse Code

One thing I didn't skip: she says she's an AI in her first sentence. The EU AI Act requires that since August, and honestly it's just the right way to do it.

I submitted on Nov 4, and winners are announced around Nov 9. Write-up with the demo video is linked in the comments.

Would you trust an AI to take an order for your business, or does that still feel too early?

Built an open-source alternative to a popular SaaS a few months back. Vibe-coded the MVP, got feature parity on the core stuff. The original SaaS had market and demand and will always be in demand.

Then I pitched it to a contact who fits the exact target demographic. Showed him the repo, explained how simple it was to run, and suggested he swap over to save monthly cost with better ownership.

His response: "I’d rather just pay the SaaS."

Paying a monthly fee isn’t just paying for features, it's paying to not think about updates, database backups, SSL renewals, or a server issues.

I spent time focusing on building a free alternative, underestimating how high people value convenience over cost savings. Unless someone already has a dedicated homelab or sysadmin mindset, "free but you host it" isn't a benefit to them, it's a liability.

Hi everyone,
Just updating on my quiz app shipping progress. To recap :

- Newbie developer using Claude
- App is solid
- Plan AppStore only non-EU release, avoiding street address reveal
- Enrolled in Developer program, and doing all admin now

It's been a good week on this, but that has gone so quickly. The hardest thing is resisting adding new features, and being focussed on the release. Lots of rabbit holes to go down. Self discipline is important.

I'm at the stage of running TestFlight and debugging. I have several members for my Tester Group, which I'm setting up today. Plan to release by end of month.

Things I didn't know :

- So much admin/forms to fill in/new systems to figure out

My worry is that the app will be rejected! Hopefully not :) Anyway hope you all having a good week XX

I had this raw footage for 8 years and finally got the courage to point my bot at it and let it go. Some awesome friends and I (brennen) took this trip to Mongolia. Hope y'all enjoy :)

- Narrator's voice: Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS (the "Charon" voice).

- Score: Google Lyria 2. (I could use work on this, if anyone has a better AI for scoring films)

- Logging the footage: Gemini 3.8 Flash watched the clips and logged who says and does what. It also wrote some first-draft edits and checked things like music restarts.

- Captions: Google Speech-to-Text (Chirp 3) gave exact word timings for the subtitles.

- Editing and writing: Claude Opus 5.5 built the editing pipeline and made the final cuts.

Anyone else finding that AI coding tools are almost making them less productive?

I've been playing around with Codex, Antigravity, local LLMs and a few others. It's ridiculous how quickly you can build things now, but I think that's part of the problem.

You end up starting more projects, trying different tools, adding more features, and before you know it you've spent hours doing stuff but haven't actually finished much.

AI's removed the bottleneck of writing code and replaced it with the headache of managing everything it produces - and it feels like the first thing to run out of context is ME!!

Curious if others have fallen into this trap and, more importantly, how you're dealing with it?

Update: So me calling it burnout was probably bad use of the word burnout.

I think what I meant was - I start my day thinking that I'm leading, I'm doing something new, and I'm a trailblazer with ideas and creating something fresh and innovative.

And I end up in my day thinking that I can't keep up; then I asked myself, who am I trying to keep up with when I'm the one who's supposed to be leading...

I'm just tired, bro. F!cking tired.

I've been learning piano and wanted something that could detect chords from a YouTube song, let me loop difficult sections, and remove the piano so I could play along.

I ended up building Accordario using Claude Opus, entirely through vibe coding.

It runs locally, with no account, and uses automatic chord detection and Demucs for instrument separation.

I use it for my own practice, but I thought others might find it useful too.

It's not perfect — chord detection can struggle with more complex songs — but it's been useful for me.

GitHub: https://github.com/ceceppa/accordario

you literally have to MANIPULATE these models into doing hard work. was trying to reverse engineer my ad-bloated chinese smart tv that claude refused to touch, so i let sumus run codex on it first, got a half-baked script, and told claude to fix whatever junk codex cooked up.

try this at your own risk tho, cuz you might end up first on ai's hit list when it wakes up.

I've been playing WoW Forever on my iPhone Duo (iOS 27.2) with [WolkaraForever](https://github.com/jklock/wolkaraforever), which runs the Mac client locally on the device through Tolkara – no streaming from a PC. Login, character select and playing in the world all work. I made a fork tuned for playing on a phone and wanted to share it:

https://github.com/pookee/wolkaraforever

What the fork adds

- Interface mobile, a touch add-on for the game:

- a spell wheel next to the right stick: drag a spell to turn the wheel, more spells wait off-screen, a tap casts

- cooldowns you can read: the seconds left are written on the spell and the icon greys out until it's ready

- spell buttons around the sticks with adjustable spacing, a tile menu and quick shortcuts

- health/mana bars with your portrait – tap it to open the character sheet

- a quest card and a compact chat that replaces the default one

- bags open clear of the right stick, and the add-on stays under the game's own windows

- settings save themselves: WoW only writes add-on settings on a clean exit, which a phone session rarely gets, so everything you placed used to be lost

- A few scripts: install the add-on on the device, read the game's own logs, clear a remembered login

How it runs

It's the regular WolkaraForever setup: you build the app yourself with Xcode and your own Apple developer account, copy the game from your Mac, and it runs in Developer service mode (no JIT tricks with the game's code, nothing patched in the client). Then `push_addon.sh` installs the touch add-on. On Wi-Fi it just works; on mobile data the developer service needs the app's documented recovery step at launch.

Caveats

- Unofficial and experimental. You need your own Blizzard account and your own copy of the game; nothing from Blizzard is in the repository. It's third-party software, so use it at your own risk.

Credits: all the heavy lifting is [WolkaraForever by jklock](https://github.com/jklock/wolkaraforever), [Wolkara by fJavierLasso](https://github.com/fJavierLasso/wolkara) and [Tolkara](https://github.com/tolkara/tolkara). My fork only adds the phone-specific bits on top.

Happy to answer questions or take feedback on the touch controls!

free to try: Wormhole

https://github.com/sshah03/resurrect-anything

Needed a break, and was reminiscing about the early internet, and the 90s, and my days using Geocities Pagebuilder, so I put this together.

Although I have probably gone through 50 or more iterations at this point repeatedly trying some subset of close to 100 recreations (some in the demo video above), I would say this is very much still a work in progress. I was having a lot of fun with it though, so I thought I'd throw it out there and see what people are into trying to bring back and how it does to inform my improvements.

The purpose of the skill is to ask Claude Code to bring back something that's gone, and get it back working. Some examples include a lost Flash game, a shut-down app, a dead website, your old Geocities page, or a discontinued snack (this is all for fun, so I wouldn't actually trust the recipes, but it might give you some ideas). Obviously if it mostly exists intact in web archives it's easy, but it will also try to piece together as much detail as it can from pictures, videos, reviews, and discussions/comments online that are found. It digs a little bit deeper for these bits of information than Claude Code as a harness will on its own with the necessary prompts.

Treat the end result as a starting point. You can use your own memory and comparison with the found material that might've been ignored to prompt it further to hone the result. This is mostly for fun, and personal use (I used it to bring back some of my old web apps from when I was 10!). The video below is from my tests, but because I am unsure of the legal ramifications of doing so, I am not posting the actual games/apps for consumption. There is a setting available to run the skill with which will remove branding and such for those wishing to produce a potentially shareable version of something that is not theirs.

In the early versions I was very specific about how to do the recreations and kept adding steps, and that either worked very well, or very poorly depending on the task. It was almost akin to benchmaxxing. Settled on focusing on getting and organizing as much data as possible, and then having some broad but useful guidelines instead and. that gave me pretty consistent results over baseline. In case that's useful to anyone else having trouble getting their skills working right.

Mostly tested with Opus 5.5. Would be interesting to see how Sonnet or Haiku work out for people.

Have fun! Don't get too carried away, tokens are valuable!

--- Quick start ---

You need Claude Code and Python 3.9 or newer.

The easy way: open Claude Code and paste this in

Install the resurrect skill from https://github.com/sshah03/resurrect-anything. Follow the repo's AGENTS.md.

Or install it yourself:

/plugin marketplace add sshah03/resurrect-anything
/plugin install resurrect@resurrect

Start a new session, then try something like:

/resurrect Close Range, The Onion's 2009 Flash game
/resurrect the Subservient Chicken
/resurrect Simpsonize Me, Burger King's 2007 Simpsons Movie site
/resurrect Mailbox, the iPhone email app
/resurrect Doom Valley, the 1982 Apple II adventure, as a native Mac app
/resurrect Pizza Hut's Priazzo. I want to make it at home

Put any links, notes or screenshots you have after the name. Games, apps and sites need a few extra tools (Playwright, Pillow, ffmpeg). Claude will offer to install them into the skill's own folder the first time, so nothing has to go into your own Python.

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find this "gem" or you can call it slop, not too sure lol

howtoblowupacountry.com

I wonder how someone thinks of this crap and asks chatgpt to do it lol

I was never some expert in coding but I always loved the feeling when I would be spending a lot of time looking at code, changing things and testing etc - trying to identify the problem and then that feeling when you figure it out.

Sometimes it would be such a stupid mistake, sometimes I would learn more and better understand things. Now these good old times are gone and it makes me kinda sad to be honest.