Show HN: Just gave Claude Code the website and ad budget to see what it would do (snitch.alphaventure.com)
- 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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[ 135 ms ] story [ 265 ms ] threadOnce a week on Friday I throw the following prompt. "Based on what you learned watching me build companies, come up with a unique idea for a startup and build it end to end including getting it live"
Seeing what it creates has been a great way to also help adjust alignment feedback to the overall system.
Here is the first 3 products it build to date:
1. https://whowasalive.com - because it would be good for SEO. (it was right) I gave the feedback that there was little commercialization opportunity.
2. https://everyhexcode.com/ - because it would be good for SEO in a valuable segment, developers and designers I gave the feedback that this was uninspired and built in a crowded space.
3. https://everymcpserver.com - because it would be good for SEO in a valuable segment and gives me an outlet to promote my own MCP servers. I gave the feedback that this is still too crowded a space.
Seeing it keep building generic sites in super crowded spaces I spend some time over this week fixing product and scope alignment. It's currently building today's startup. Will report back when it has figured it out.
Based on what you did here, i am totally going to add "Then build a marketing and self improvement plan you execute on weekly for a month" to that prompt!
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.