Side project built with Claude Code earns $130 in first month via Reddit traffic
don_gustavo · reddit · 2026-10-18
A UI/UX designer with 8 years of experience shares shapefinder.cc, a PC peripherals recommendation site built entirely with Claude Code. It made $130 in its first month from affiliate links, with nearly all traffic coming from Reddit. Key lessons: iterate constantly on real user feedback, use AI to explore 20 design directions in an evening instead of days, and treat UX presentation—not plain list-plus-filters—as the moat, since LLM defaults make every project look the same.
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