I had an app I wanted for over a decade. I even wrote a prototype 10 years ago. It was fine but wasn't good enough to use, so I didn't use it.

This weekend I explained to Claude what I wanted the app to do, and then gave it the crappy code I wrote 10 years ago as a starting point.

It made the app exactly as I described it the first time. From there, now that I had a working app that I liked, I iterated a few times to add new features. Only once did it not get it correct, and I had to tell it what I thought the problem was (that it made the viewport too small). And after that it was working again.

I did in 30 minutes with Claude what I had try to do in a few hours previously.

Where it got stuck however was when I asked it to convert it to a screensaver for the Mac. It just had no idea what to do. But that was Claude on the web, not Claude Code. I'm going to try it with CC and see if I can get it.

I also did the same thing with a Chrome plugin for Gmail. Something I've wanted for nearly 20 years, and could never figure out how to do (basically sort by sender). I got Opus 4.5 to make me a plugin to do it and it only took a few iterations.

I look forward to finally getting all those small apps and plugins I've wanted forever.

This reminds me of how much screensavers on Mac are a PITA. But yes, such a boon for us doodad makers.

what plan do you have on claude?