Show HN: I build a Fantasy NHL app in 3 days with Claude AI
Published on: 2025-07-30 17:04:07
I am not from North America, and moved there a couple years ago. After being invited to the first fantasy league and seeing the platform they were using, I couldn't bring myself to check it every day. An excel sheet would have been more appealing to use than this.
So I decided to create my own. But on the side? This would take ages. I am very confident with Rust and JavaScript, but it still takes ages to build something like that.
Good prompts, and a few long nights later, and I could create something fun and easy to use.
Have a look: https://fantasy-frontend.fly.dev/
The frontend is in React, the backend in Rust. I deployed both via fly.io. It was so simple and fast, it was shocking.
After it was deployed, I took 2-3 days to refactor everything and made it neat and tidy, so I could possibly open it up for general use with accounts etc.
The first time I built something with the help of AI not just for me.
The biggest help was certainly the UI and styling. I was never good at tha
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