What makes Claude Code so damn good

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1zael ◴[23 Aug 25 20:46 UTC] No.44998995[source]▶

>>44998295 (OP) #

I've literally built the entire MVP of my startup on Claude Code and now have paying customers. I've got an existential worry that I'm going to have a SEV incident that will trigger a house of falling cards, but until then I'm constantly leveraging Claude for fixing security vulnerabilities, implementing test-driven-development, and planning out the software architecture in accordance with my long-term product roadmap. I hope this story becomes more and more common as time passes.

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1. imiric ◴[23 Aug 25 21:04 UTC] No.44999121[source]▶

>>44998995 #

Well, don't be shy, share what CC helped you build.

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2. orsorna ◴[23 Aug 25 21:24 UTC] No.44999260[source]▶

>>44999121 (TP) #

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3. turnsout ◴[24 Aug 25 03:20 UTC] No.45001050[source]▶

>>44999260 #

There’s still a stigma. I think people are worried that if it gets out that their startup was built with the help of an LLM, they’ll lose customers who don’t want to pay for something “vibe coded.”

Honestly I don’t think customers care.

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4. mlrtime ◴[24 Aug 25 03:36 UTC] No.45001143{3}[source]▶

>>45001050 #

I used the analogy to how online dating started. I remember [some] people were embarrassed to say they met online so would make up a story. We're in that phase of AI development, it will pass.

5. 1zael ◴[24 Aug 25 04:07 UTC] No.45001296[source]▶

>>44999121 (TP) #

Answered above, but to be concrete on features --> it helped me build an end-to-end multi-stage pipeline architecture for video and audio transcription, LLM analysis, content generation, and evals. It took care of stuff like Postgres storage and pgvector for RAG-powered semantic search, background job orchestration with intelligent retry logic, Celery workers for background jobs, and MCP connectors.

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6. jaggederest ◴[24 Aug 25 08:01 UTC] No.45002300[source]▶

>>44999260 #

I generally work as openly as possible on github, and I am deliberately avoiding manual coding for a while to try to learn these (infuriating/wonderful) tools more thoroughly.

Unfortunately I can't always share all of my work, but everything on github after perhaps 2025-06-01 is as vibe-coded as I can get it to be. (I manually review commits before they're pushed, and PRs once in a complete state, but I always feed those reviews back into the tooling, not fix them manually, unless I get completely fed up.)

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7. dimgl ◴[24 Aug 25 13:52 UTC] No.45004261[source]▶

>>45001296 #

We get it; it helped you build a bunch of stuff. Why not just post your company?

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8. Workaccount2 ◴[24 Aug 25 14:09 UTC] No.45004365[source]▶

>>44999260 #

I learned 20 years ago to never share code online with programmers when it comes to making a point (or, sadly, asking for help.)

I promise if someone posted human made code and said it was LLM generated, it would still be nit-picked to death. I swear 75% of developers ride around on a high horse that their style of doing things is objectively the best and everyone else is a knuckle dragger.

9. bopbopbop7 ◴[24 Aug 25 16:39 UTC] No.45005635{3}[source]▶

>>45002300 #

Everyone wants to see your very profitable startup, it’s simply free advertising. Why not share it?

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10. 1zael ◴[24 Aug 25 16:57 UTC] No.45005768{3}[source]▶

>>45004261 #

We're in the govtech x AI space (building software for local governments and government-adjacent customers). I don't feel comfortable linking my direct startup yet - it serves me no benefit here (I just get judged by a bunch of angry programmers) and we're in the middle of fundraising with investors.

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11. jaggederest ◴[24 Aug 25 17:49 UTC] No.45006194{4}[source]▶

>>45005635 #

I definitely don't have a very profitable startup. I'm simply a working programmer trying to learn new tools.

12. bopbopbop7 ◴[24 Aug 25 19:04 UTC] No.45006752{4}[source]▶

>>45005768 #

Then why bring it up in the first place if you’re not even willing to show one shred of evidence of your vibe coding output, even a link to you companies landing page?

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