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19 days, 546 messages, 141 users: building my app by mostly talking to Claude Code
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19 days, 546 messages, 141 users: building my app by mostly talking to Claude Code

DEV Community: webdev·taewoo·3 days ago
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I make Tabby, a free tab manager for Chrome, Firefox and Edge. This week I shipped version 1.2 and made a "lock in" short for TikTok and YouTube in three languages.

I barely wrote code for any of it. Mostly I talked to Claude Code in plain Vietnamese ("this looks ugly", "the text is cut off", "the music is wrong"), looked at what it showed me, and said yes or no.

People keep asking me three things: how long it takes, whether it actually works, and what it costs. So here are my real numbers, plus the times it misunderstood me.

🎬 1.2 video: https://youtu.be/rFEa6yeJnX8

🎬 The short: English · 日本語 · 中文

What got done

Tabby 1.2:

21 themes (3 free)

12 languages

a calmer board and a new Home page

new store pages in every language

a 51-second promo video

The "lock in" short: someone fills a year of work into Tabby, one line at a time, cut to the beat.…

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