Show HN: gave Claude Code a website and ad budget to run growth autonomously
HamadMalikKhan · hn · 2026-10-16
A professional web builder handed Claude Code a baseline website, full access to Google/X/LinkedIn/Reddit Ads with a real budget, plus Apify and Openrouter access, to see how an agent would run growth on its own.
The site is fully personalized via client-side rendering with Deepseek — no two users see the same page — based on device signals (GPU model, battery, installed fonts, adblock, connected camera/mic, mouse polling rate, scroll speed), demographics (weather, time of day, local news), and behavior data, plus many services wired through Apify.
So far the agent makes decisions every 4 hours and mostly commits tomfoolery: generating a gazillion SEO pages (exactly what the interns do) and spamming share buttons to chase virality. Early days, but fun to watch.
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