Dev built a grandma-proof news dashboard with Claude, burning a Max plan in two days
MrPopCultur · reddit · 2026-10-05
A developer built The Daily Orbit — a dashboard aggregating global news, trending IG/TikTok videos, YouTube livestreams and radio, plus an AI research assistant — because his grandmother only gets news from Facebook. He avoided the "AI slop" look with Claude Design + Pinterest references, found Opus 5.5 unimpressive and dropped to Opus 4.8, and burned his entire Max plan in two days when Ultracode spawned 200 review agents.
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