07.12.2025 — claude, ai, space jam, web development, computer vision — 14 min read
Link to the Hacker News post. Thanks everybody for all the engagement!
Can Claude Recreate the 1996 Space Jam Website? No. Or at least not with my prompting skills. Note: please help, because I'd like to preserve this website forever and there's no other way to do it besides getting Claude to recreate it from a screenshot. Believe me, I'm an engineering manager with a computer science degree. Please please please help 😞
Final note: I use "he" to refer to Claude, which Josh finds ridiculous.
Space Jam, 1996
For those who don't know, Warner Bros keeps this anachronistic website online that was released in 1996 to accompany the Space Jam movie.
It's a classic example of early web era design. Simple, colorful, and sparks joy. We're going to find out if we can get Claude to recreate it using only a screenshot.
Set Up
At a minimum, I'm providing Claude:
a screenshot of the website
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