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Show HN: Just gave Claude Code the website and ad budget to see what it would do

https://snitch.alphaventure.com/gate.php
3•HamadMalikKhan•1h ago
I build websites for a living. Lately, it's more about prompting than actually writing the code (the art part is still there). So I decided to leave that part to Claude too and see what it would come up with. So far, I have given it

- A baseline website - Full access to Google, X, LinkedIn and Reddit Ads, with a budget - Apify access - Openrouter access

I also wanted it to personalize the website completely based on the user. No 2 users see the same website, most of the content is rendered on the client side using Deepseek. It uses - Device (GPU model, battery percentage, fonts installed, resolution, adblock installed, camera and mic connected, mouse polling rate, scroll speed, etc) - Demographics (Weather, time of the day, news around you, ..) - Behavior (Scroll speed, clicks, selection, referrer, etc) - Tons of other connected services through Apify

So far it's doing tomfoolery for the most part. Like creating a gazzilion pages for SEO (exactly what our interns say every time), trying to go viral by adding share buttons, etc. But it's still super fun to see it make decisions every 4 hours.

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ikamil_raza•17m ago
I came here to see what Claude would do with an ad budget and ended up learning my browser has been oversharing about me this whole time.

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