Dev ships movie-picker site with 1,900 of 3,700 commits written by Claude Code — shares CLAUDE.md and status-page workflow
RandomFuckingUser · reddit · 2026-10-16
An indie dev released Film Dilemma (filmdilemma.com, free, with an Android app) — a movie picker where every film has per-genre scores, so you can search things like "90+ comedy with zero romance," filter by lead actor, or get picks from 3 movies you like.
Project stats and workflow takeaways:
- 2 years, 3,700 commits, 1,900 co-written with Claude Code; FastAPI + MySQL + React + Capacitor.
- CLAUDE.md hard rules: e.g. "never touch the database without asking" — at this project size, that file is what keeps the AI from doing dumb things.
- Per-session HTML status pages: hooks create/update a small page per Claude Code session — current task, questions awaiting his answer with recommendations, items to test, drafts. He runs several sessions in parallel and reads only the pages instead of scrolling chats.
- The promo video was made entirely by Claude Code (Opus 5.5): headless-browser recording via Playwright, edited with ffmpeg; Grok-generated video looked like AI slop, so he went with motion graphics.
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