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New comment by HamadMalikKhan in "Show HN: Just gave Claude Code the website and ad budget to see what it would do"

HamadMalikKhan — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:48:05 +0000

1. The keys are on server side. Every section has a separate file on the server with full access to the context (variables), so it renders on the runtime.

Here's how it works Browser -> Request for section -> Backend (with full context and keys) -> Generate it using AI. We are using Deepseek 4.1 flash, so latency is minimal.

2. So far the ad spend is super bad and it's not improving. It tries to correct things too quickly without giving it a time to settle down. When I tried to force it to do long horizons, it stopped spending for days because it was too focused on one grand plan.

The prompt is literally "You have $1,700 and access to these 4 platforms. Do your best to get more people try the demo (core KPI).". We are using Fable 5.1 for Ads.

New comment by HamadMalikKhan in "Ask HN: Has anyone made real money from AI gen vibe coded app?"

HamadMalikKhan — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:04:49 +0000

I wrote under 5% of the code by hand. It was mainly telling the AI to build x and how to build it. With the new Fable 5.1, even the how part is getting replaced.

For this project, the maintaince is not too big of a pain, but we are working on another project where it's an absolute pain. Every PR is like 100k lines change, simple bug fix needs 600k tokens. We are probably doing a choppy job here.

The size of the codebase definitely plays a role.

New comment by HamadMalikKhan in "Ask HN: Has anyone made real money from AI gen vibe coded app?"

HamadMalikKhan — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:09:38 +0000

Software engineer here, so I am unsure if it counts but we built a product that's doing ~$500k/year and ~95% of it is vibe coded.

The difference would be, we knew what we were doing (This makes me sleep better at night.), because of pre LLM era experience.

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

HamadMalikKhan — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:00:51 +0000

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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New comment by HamadMalikKhan in "Kitty-GPT"

HamadMalikKhan — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 03:09:47 +0000

Where's the benchmark? I am afraid the model will be nerfed and replaced with an orange after the hype.

New comment by HamadMalikKhan in "We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers"

HamadMalikKhan — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 03:06:07 +0000

Anything that can't be solved with a regex and LLM feels like an overkill. There are surprisingly tons of things that falls in this category. E.g Filter, classification, preprocessing micro decisions, etc.

New comment by HamadMalikKhan in "We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers"

HamadMalikKhan — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 03:00:03 +0000

I am starting to like Typesafe more and more lately. It's plainly simple but the next time I see the same problem, Jev just fits right.

New comment by HamadMalikKhan in "Show HN: Every open government tender in the world (Over 250k)"

HamadMalikKhan — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 02:52:52 +0000

Super interesting! I can see 273,229 records from the network requests. Out of curiousity, how do you plan to keep it updated?

New comment by HamadMalikKhan in "Show HN: Timur's Chess – A 14th century chess variant with giraffes"

HamadMalikKhan — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 02:45:20 +0000

I can feel like a sultan for the first time. Unfortunately, it's Bayezid.

New comment by HamadMalikKhan in "Ask HN: How do you find good developer tools quickly?"

HamadMalikKhan — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 02:33:24 +0000

Can you specify the Stack or things you are trying to build? With Claude Code, the dev tool space is getting exciting and blurry at the same time.

New comment by HamadMalikKhan in "We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything"

HamadMalikKhan — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:01:12 +0000

This, plus the implementation on the AI providers' side is still choppy. I remember one of our implementations had a $500 limit on OpenAI with auto-recharge enabled. It burned through $600 despite the lower limit.

You can be down serious money even with a limit set.