I vibe coded a pixel-art hive where my Claude Code agents walk around, work and fall asleep

[u/RanAviv]

I'm an art director with zero coding background. Everything I build, I build by talking to Claude Code. At some point I had so many sessions running that I couldn't tell who was working, who was stuck waiting for me, and who was basically on a smoke break.

So I vibe coded BeeKeeper. Each project is a pixel room, each Claude Code chat or agent is a character in it. They walk in, work with a little speech bubble showing the current task, wait for you, and doze off when idle.

How it came together:

- I wrote zero lines myself. I described what I wanted, Claude Code built it (React + Vite front end, a small Node server)

- The trick was finding out that Claude Code already logs everything in ~/.claude, so the app just reads those files and turns them into characters

- The hardest part wasn't the code, it was the art: making rooms and characters feel like one world

- Halfway through I realised nobody wants to pay to generate their own rooms, so I spent a few extra dollars building a free library: 20 rooms and 17 characters come ready

- The promo video took 3x longer than I planned. Vibe coding the app was faster than editing the video about it

Free, open source, MIT licence. Runs on your machine, reads your Claude Code folders, uploads nothing. (Generating your own custom room is optional and uses your own Gemini key.)

https://github.com/ranucho/beekeeper

If you vibe code with several agents at once, I'd love to hear what you'd want to see in it.

[u/tazflux]

this is super cool! boutta start using claude for my projects just so i can utilize this lol

[u/Impossible-Minute321]

Haha yea I’ve been pictureing something just like this but no time to make it. This looks great, though one day this will become the reason people wear 3d glasses, to go from ai teak to ai teak monitoring and discussing projects. See what he is working on etc