Three things I've tried so far, none of which are working well:

1. I used a Conductor setup script that runs my local dev setup in each worktree. This didn't work because of port collisions between docker containers.

2. I'm using terraform, so it was trivial to spin up a copy of my staging infra (with fewer resources) for every PR. This let each claude session in Conductor use Playright to test it's code. Two problems: first, this is pretty expensive ($2-5/per day/per pr). I'm pushing 20-30 prs a day, so this was costing me $XXX/month even with automated cleanups. Second, my deploy takes about 10-15 minutes, which isn't that long, but claude would often need to be re-prompted to check on the deployed changes.

3. For new features, I just had Claude yolo code to staging or prod behind feature flags. This caused regressions and requires that Claude have access to privileged data for testing, so not a great solution.

I'm thinking that something like local VMs tied to each worktree could make sense, but wanted to check if I'm just oblivious to an existing solution before diving into that.

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Donations are definitely a piece of the puzzle but local journalism will never reach the level it was in the early 2000s without a new revenue stream.

Our current hypothesis is that local rewards programs could be a sustainable revenue stream and give the newspaper a way to prove their advertising works with locals.

While trying this out, we've also helped a few papers get up and running - we're calling it "newspaper in a box". Check out a few of the papers we've helped launch: https://sewardfolly.com/ (9 months old) https://homerindependentpress.com/ (2 weeks old).

I've spent that last year working with news organizations to improve their online presence and a lot of my job has ended up being translating their ideas into wordpress clicks using Claude or ChatGPT. They can't take advantage of products like Lovable because the resulting code won't work with the CMS that their staff is used to.

Email me if you'd like free access! seamus@presspass.ai