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Give Claude Code a website and a real ad budget and see what it does

A web developer handed Claude Code a baseline site plus access to Google, X, LinkedIn and Reddit ads with a budget, Apify and OpenRouter. The site is personalized per visitor, with most content rendered client-side by DeepSeek.

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HamadMalikKhan on Hacker News · 2026-10-15 · Project link

Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-16.

What they did

A web developer handed Claude Code a baseline site plus access to Google, X, LinkedIn and Reddit ads with a budget, Apify and OpenRouter. The site is personalized per visitor, with most content rendered client-side by DeepSeek.

Result (as claimed)

Live experiment at snitch.alphaventure.com; 11 points on Show HN.

Tools they used

Claude CodeOpenRouterApifyDeepSeek

Cost: Claude Code: free plan, paid from $17/mo; OpenRouter: free plan, paid from Pay per token. Checked 2026-10-14.

Set it up

  1. Pick one goal and metric

    For example replies to outreach, ad ideas per week or landing page conversion.

  2. Set up the tools

    Open Claude Code, OpenRouter, Apify, DeepSeek. Load your offer, audience and examples of what already works.

  3. Generate, then review

    Have the agent research and draft. You approve every message, post or ad before it goes out.

  4. Measure and iterate

    Track the metric for a week, keep what works and feed the results back into the prompt.

Copy the full setup prompt

Paste into your agent and it will walk you through the setup, asking before anything that sends, posts or spends.

You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Claude Code.

Goal: Give Claude Code a website and a real ad budget and see what it does
What the original author did: A web developer handed Claude Code a baseline site plus access to Google, X, LinkedIn and Reddit ads with a budget, Apify and OpenRouter. The site is personalized per visitor, with most content rendered client-side by DeepSeek.
Reported result (as claimed by the author): Live experiment at snitch.alphaventure.com; 11 points on Show HN.
Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50107586
Tools they used: Claude Code, OpenRouter, Apify, DeepSeek
Category: Marketing & growth

Please:
1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like).
2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure.
3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data.
4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.

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