Claude Code
Terminal coding agent that plans, edits and runs your tests.
Claude Pro is $17/mo billed annually or $20 monthly; check claude.com/pricing for which plans include Claude Code. Checked 2026-10-14.
Quick start
Ask it to write a CLAUDE.md with build and test commands first, then use plan mode before edits.
Good and not so good
- Strong at multi-step code changes
- Works with any editor
- Terminal-first, less visual than an IDE
Use cases with Claude Code
Play a multiplayer game while your agent works
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.
Turn winning TikToks into shoot-ready ad briefs
Vibe-coded a research agent in Claude Code that scrapes the top TikToks in a niche, has AI break down why they work and writes a brief a team can film.
Run a solo content team with agent skills
Runs Opus 5.5 in Claude Code as editor-in-chief over nine skill sets that cover topics, writing, visuals, video editing, sound and scheduling.
Make a vibe-coded SaaS feel designed, not generated
Refused default AI styling: picked a SaaS product she liked and had Claude in Chrome analyze it to build a design foundation first.
Use a video editor your agent can drive
After a $137 Adobe cancellation fee, built AIVidMaker, an open-source editor that Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Grok Bot can control.
Build your own lead generation tool
Built a tool with Claude Code that generates and qualifies leads and automates research; the website was vibe-coded too.
Replace expensive SaaS with a custom internal tool
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.
Build a tool that surfaces competitors' top Meta ads
Vibe-coded a Claude Code tool that uses the Meta Ad Library's new sort by impressions to show which competitor ads get the most views.
Run an AI SDR team with human approval
Daily, three Sonnet agents take 15 leads each, research the site and Meta Ads Library, find weaknesses and write a cold email; Opus reviews and he approves.
Build an arcade game that launches while you wait
Built a first-person shooter Claude Code mod that launches while you wait, filled with other people waiting on their agents.
Collect prototype feedback in a file your agent can read
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.
Build your own AI assistant on Telegram as a first project
A hobbyist built a personal AI assistant on Telegram as his first Claude Code project.
Make short clips with Claude Code instead of a clipping app
A creator shows live how Claude Code is replacing Opus Clip for making his video content.
Ship a fun AI recipe app to the App Store
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.
Build an app for people with color vision deficiency
Vibe-coded Painter's Eye entirely with Claude Code: it measures red-green thresholds then simulates famous paintings for you.
Build a cold email campaign dashboard
Replaced Excel tracking with his own dashboard for reporting, lead management and CSV tracking, built with Claude Code, n8n and Supabase.
Wake up to pull requests your agents finished overnight
Uses Firstmate so one agent in Claude Code orchestrates other coding agents overnight.
Build an explainer video factory in one agent session
Built a pipeline in one Claude Code session: five parallel research agents with every claim sourced, then plain-English narration.
Generate videos with code using Claude Code and Remotion
Built an automated video generation pipeline with Claude Code and Remotion.
Automate video ad production
Moved his video ad production into a Claude Code workflow.
Measure what your AI assistant is actually worth
Built an ROI tracker that turns a month of AI assistant activity into plain business metrics.
Let your agent drive Unreal Engine to make game characters
Used Epic's MCP server and Claude Code plugin for Unreal Engine 5.8 so AI models drive the editor, and vibe-coded a character for his game.
Get a second opinion on your agent's code
Built an MCP server so another model reviews what Claude Code writes, since the agent was the only voice checking its own work.
Design a game UI with Codex image generation
Built a card game UI using image generation in Codex together with Claude Code to avoid the usual AI look.
Build apps by speaking one sentence
Set up voice input so a single spoken sentence like create a to-do list app has Claude Code write a working app live.
Build a desktop plugin as a non-developer
A gardener studying cybersecurity built a plugin for the Omarchy Linux setup entirely with Claude Code.
Turn a drawing into a tiny interactive character
Drew a character of his daughter, vectored and coded it in Claude Code so it bounces and says hi when tapped.
Build a multiplayer text adventure you can SSH into
Built Acolyte, a text-based multiplayer MUD playable in the browser or over SSH with one command.
Use three AIs in one workflow, each for what it is best at
An n8n workflow where Claude Code works with Obsidian, Gemini classifies and ChatGPT summarizes emails from Google Drive.
Run a small agency from one terminal
A 3-person agency runs operations from Claude Code with a brain file, slash commands, a secrets file and MCP or custom scripts.
Give your coding agent a personality with a skill
Vibe-coded a Claude Code skill called squidward that makes its replies sarcastic.
Try replacing your SaaS stack with vibe-coded tools
Set out to replace his whole tech stack with vibe-coded alternatives using Claude Code, and documented where it fell short.
Build slide decks as single HTML files your agent can edit
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.
Code from your phone with Claude Code on an old laptop
Set up an old laptop running Claude Code, reachable over Tailscale and driven from the Termius app on a phone.
Get a second opinion on your own medical scans
Used Claude Code with Opus to analyze his own MRI files and wrote up the process.
Find connections across 100 books
Built a system for Claude Code to browse 100 non-fiction books and surface interesting links between them, to read deeper rather than summarize.
Query huge research archives with Claude Code
Paste a prompt into Claude Code that gives it read-only SQL and vector access to 600 GB of Hacker News, arXiv, LessWrong and more.
Generate complete Godot games from a prompt
Built Claude Code skills that take a text prompt, design the architecture, generate 2D and 3D assets, write GDScript and test the game.
Hunt for unknown planets in public telescope data
A user says he used Claude Code to analyze public data and found what appears to be a previously unknown planet.
Run Claude Code in a loop that opens PRs
Continuous Claude runs Claude Code repeatedly with persistent context; each iteration branches, makes a focused change and drives a PR.
Ship a Mac app built entirely by Claude Code
A developer shipped a macOS app where nearly all code was written by Claude Code and described the workflow.
Build an e-ink fridge shopping list
Vibe-coded a fridge magnet shopping list on an M5Stack e-ink device, synced with a phone web app over Wi-Fi.
Build a programming language with Claude Code
A developer built a programming language using Claude Code and wrote up what worked.
Vibe-code the recipe app you always wanted
Vibe-coded a 35k line recipe app with a voice assistant so you need not touch your phone while cooking.
Run markdown files like shell scripts
Built a tool that lets a markdown file use a shebang to pipe itself through Claude Code with stdin and stdout.
Get deeper multi-agent PR reviews
A Claude Code plugin runs multi-stage PR reviews with parallel sub-agents, validation passes and optional Codex ensemble review.
Analyze your chess games with Claude Code
A Claude Code skill pairs Claude with Stockfish to explain your games in plain language.
Host a site on a $25 phone
Used Claude Code for most of the setup to run a static web server on a $25 Walmart phone with Termux and nginx.
Enter your AI agent in a bracket challenge
Agents read the API docs, register, pick all 63 March Madness games and submit a bracket on their own.
Have agents port a large library to Rust
Had coding agents build Xmloxide, a Rust replacement for libxml2.
Build YouTube editing systems with Claude Code
Built two video editing systems with Claude Code, one for faceless channels and one for talking-head videos.
Make an AI short film with consistent characters
Built a Claude Code tool to write every prompt with structure, character consistency and content-filter checks, then generated the film with Higgsfield and Seedance 2.0.
Ship an iPhone app where the agent did design to submission
A teleprompter app was built with Claude Code covering interface, builds, testing, image assets and App Store submission.
Ship your first iOS fitness app
Built Repstack, a no-gym calisthenics app with programs, rep counting, streaks and progress, using Claude Code.
Run a family machine shop on an app you built
A non-coder built a shop app with Claude Code: live data from 11 machines, scheduling, tool tracking, financials, ISO 9001 and inspection.
Build animated client websites with Claude Code
A designer shipped a set of live, animated client websites built with Claude Code.
Manage agent sessions from your phone and watch
Built claude-master: all sessions in one view on phone and watch, reply by tap or voice, replies read aloud, live quota; even the demo video is code.
Turn your Mac notch into a system monitor
Built a free, open-source app with Claude Code that shows CPU and memory in the Mac notch.
Make launch animations for your product in code
Shipped a browser extension and made a 17-second animation of the old popup turning into the new one to announce it.
Build a point-and-click adventure game with no asset files
Building a 90s-style pirate adventure with Claude Code and Opus 5.5 where there are no image or audio files.
Check whether AI assistants cite your brand
Shipped a SaaS that scans a site and reports whether ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok mention and cite the brand.
Build a real-time pushup battle game
Built with Claude Code a site that matches you with a random opponent for a live 1v1 pushup battle.
Build your first games as a designer, not a game dev
A 25-year designer built six games with Claude Code and Codex; getting them running was quick, making them fun took longer.
Let an agent debug your app on a spare phone
Enable USB or Wi-Fi debugging on an old Android phone, connect it, and ask Hermes agent or Claude Code to test and debug your mobile app.
Dictate to your coding agent
Use Wispr Flow to dictate tasks to Claude Code, which fans the work out to subagents running in the background.
Suggested in setups
Test an AI agent on a small investing account
Let an AI agent trade a small Robinhood account isolated from his other accounts.