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blacktechnology | 6 months ago
Here’s the context: Claude Code currently offers a $200/month plan with very generous usage, including advanced features like Ultrathink, Opus, and (as of v1.0.71) background commands that let it run 24/7. I’ve been building real products on top of it, using these features exactly as intended. By leaning heavily on Claude Code (with some help from Cursor), I ended up being the top token consumer globally.
Some commenters on Reddit saw this as “abuse.” Personally, I don’t. Everything I did was within the rules Anthropic set. To me, it shows what’s possible when you treat Claude Code not just as a coding assistant, but as an actual development engine.
Here are the products I’ve built so far: 1.Raphael AI https://raphael.app – AI image generation with no login, no daily cap, and unlimited free usage. Paying users can unlock higher-fidelity models. 2.AnyVoice https://anyvoice.net – Ultra-fast voice cloning from a 3-second sample, producing voices that are nearly indistinguishable from the original. 3.Fast3D – https://fast3d.io A platform that turns text or images into 3D models in seconds, designed for speed and simplicity.
All three products are already profitable and sustaining a small company, and we have two more major launches planned before September.
The Reddit thread raised an interesting debate: - Where is the line between “power use” and “abuse” when a SaaS product offers generous terms? - Should companies celebrate heavy users who push their tools to the limit, or restrict them? - And more broadly, what new kinds of businesses become possible when development itself can be automated at this scale?
Curious to hear the HN community’s take.
eiishiiiou|6 months ago
The only way the sleight of hand can be sustained is by burning ever increasing amounts of resources.
People are convinced they are seeing some "emergent" property. We are all just entranced by paraidolia.
It isn't very impressive to see a corporate data simulator that is fed all the data and runs on giant GPU farms. There is no gain, only a massive loss. They just hope to hook everyone on it before the investment money runs out and they just might.
potsandpans|6 months ago