Replace one-off BI reports with an internal site of HTML dashboards
ihm185 describes a company paying about $150k a year for Looker where one engineer spent an afternoon building an internal site for HTML dashboards with Claude Code. Eight months later it has as many weekly users as Looker, and Looker usage is down a third.
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@ihm185 on X · 2026-10-24
Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-24.
What they did
ihm185 describes a company paying about $150k a year for Looker where one engineer spent an afternoon building an internal site for HTML dashboards with Claude Code. Eight months later it has as many weekly users as Looker, and Looker usage is down a third.
Result (as claimed)
Cheaper dashboards for one-off reports.
Tools they used
Cost: Pricing depends on the tools you pick; check each official pricing page.
Set it up
Pick a contained repo or task
Start on a branch or side project where mistakes are cheap.
Install and configure
Set up Claude Code. Read what it can run on your machine and limit permissions where possible.
Run it on a real task
Give it a well-scoped issue and let it work. Review the diff like any pull request.
Add guardrails
Keep tests and CI in the loop, and never let an agent push to main or touch production secrets unattended.
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: Replace one-off BI reports with an internal site of HTML dashboards What the original author did: ihm185 describes a company paying about $150k a year for Looker where one engineer spent an afternoon building an internal site for HTML dashboards with Claude Code. Eight months later it has as many weekly users as Looker, and Looker usage is down a third. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Cheaper dashboards for one-off reports. Source: https://x.com/ihm185/status/2113950378647765166 Tools they used: Claude Code Category: Dev & ops 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.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Codex. Goal: Replace one-off BI reports with an internal site of HTML dashboards What the original author did: ihm185 describes a company paying about $150k a year for Looker where one engineer spent an afternoon building an internal site for HTML dashboards with Claude Code. Eight months later it has as many weekly users as Looker, and Looker usage is down a third. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Cheaper dashboards for one-off reports. Source: https://x.com/ihm185/status/2113950378647765166 Tools they used: Claude Code Category: Dev & ops 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.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Grok Bot. Goal: Replace one-off BI reports with an internal site of HTML dashboards What the original author did: ihm185 describes a company paying about $150k a year for Looker where one engineer spent an afternoon building an internal site for HTML dashboards with Claude Code. Eight months later it has as many weekly users as Looker, and Looker usage is down a third. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Cheaper dashboards for one-off reports. Source: https://x.com/ihm185/status/2113950378647765166 Tools they used: Claude Code Category: Dev & ops 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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