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A 25-year designer built six games with Claude Code and Codex; getting them running was quick, making them fun took longer.
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Apps, games and sites people shipped by talking to a coding agent. 49 use cases, newest first.
A 25-year designer built six games with Claude Code and Codex; getting them running was quick, making them fun took longer.
A hobbyist built a personal AI assistant on Telegram as his first Claude Code project.
Built the MVP of a project management system in two all-nighters with Claude Code; it now runs a 110+ person business and three devs own it.
Found the Rork app builder in November and launched his first app on December 16.
A developer gave a headless coding agent control of Blender so it outputs models with rig, animations and colliders from a text prompt.
A creator had an AI model rebuild their game in 3D using Blender, Tripo for models and Godot as the engine, in about 90 minutes.
Use Wispr Flow to dictate tasks to Claude Code, which fans the work out to subagents running in the background.
Building a 90s-style pirate adventure with Claude Code and Opus 5.5 where there are no image or audio files.
Built Feedback Tunnel: two commands share localhost as a live link and every comment lands in a file Claude Code or Cursor can act on.
Chain specialist tools: one model plans and codes, another handles 3D in Blender, Meshy makes extra assets, and Godot assembles the game.
Set out to replace his whole tech stack with vibe-coded alternatives using Claude Code, and documented where it fell short.
Built with Claude a space economy sim in Rust and Bevy where hundreds of autonomous ships each run their own logic.
Built Meld: pick two cuisines and AI invents a new dish with photo, ingredients and steps; Flutter plus Gemini, written with Claude Code and Antigravity.
Refused default AI styling: picked a SaaS product she liked and had Claude in Chrome analyze it to build a design foundation first.
Built a card game UI using image generation in Codex together with Claude Code to avoid the usual AI look.
Built Claude Code skills that take a text prompt, design the architecture, generate 2D and 3D assets, write GDScript and test the game.
A weekend project wrapped the open-source Micropolis in a REST API so AI agents can play SimCity.
Someone who quit coding years ago used AI to build Calquio, a site of finance calculators.
Used Claude Code for most of the setup to run a static web server on a $25 Walmart phone with Termux and nginx.
Built a modern HTML5 canvas remake of Atari Missile Command, initially with Gemini 2.5 Pro.
Vibe-coded a 35k line recipe app with a voice assistant so you need not touch your phone while cooking.
A teleprompter app was built with Claude Code covering interface, builds, testing, image assets and App Store submission.
Built a free, open-source app with Claude Code that shows CPU and memory in the Mac notch.
Built a first-person shooter Claude Code mod that launches while you wait, filled with other people waiting on their agents.
Saw a card animation in the Vivino app and built a similar swipe effect with Codex for his own app.
Built a Claude Code mod that drops you into a multiplayer quick-scope lobby where every other player is also waiting on their own Claude.
A full booking studio, from landing page to appointments, customer details and dashboard, built with Lovable.
A non-coder built a shop app with Claude Code: live data from 11 machines, scheduling, tool tracking, financials, ISO 9001 and inspection.
A gardener studying cybersecurity built a plugin for the Omarchy Linux setup entirely with Claude Code.
Rebuilt the Halo 3 map Guardian to run in the browser and hid a treasure hunt through his life inside it.
Set up voice input so a single spoken sentence like create a to-do list app has Claude Code write a working app live.
Vibe-coded Painter's Eye entirely with Claude Code: it measures red-green thresholds then simulates famous paintings for you.
A team building slide decks with web tech and Claude Code made Bento, a whole PowerPoint-style deck in one HTML file with editing, data and collaboration.
Built Repstack, a no-gym calisthenics app with programs, rep counting, streaks and progress, using Claude Code.
Built with Claude Code a site that matches you with a random opponent for a live 1v1 pushup battle.
Built Acolyte, a text-based multiplayer MUD playable in the browser or over SSH with one command.
A designer shipped a set of live, animated client websites built with Claude Code.
A 17-year-old vibe-coded with Claude a fitness app that estimates body fat percentage from three photos.
A dermatologist vibe-coded a skin cancer learning app with the free Gemini 2.5 Pro: a single HTML file, vanilla JS, no backend.
Built drawafish.com, where you draw a fish and watch it swim with everyone else's, as an exercise in vibe coding and Google Cloud.
A developer shipped a macOS app where nearly all code was written by Claude Code and described the workflow.
A developer with 20+ years experience but no game work AI-coded a tower defense game and logged the whole process.
Built an MCP server that lets clients play Minesweeper and tested Claude on it.
While building a landing page, built Colurus, a clipboard manager that keeps links, text, colors and screenshots after restarts.
Reported story: Curative cancelled a $600K a year Salesforce contract and built its own internal CRM with AI coding.
Vibe-coded a 3D chess game in about two hours, then used player feedback to add three battle systems, two-player mode, walking animations, sound and performance work.
Mostly vibe-coded Davit, a front-end for Apple Containers that the author wanted for himself.
A ChatGPT export extension with 19,000 users went unchanged for a year; the author is rebuilding it with today's coding agents.
Built a new small tool every time he needed one, tired of sketchy converter sites, and collected them all in one place.
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