Hand Claude Code a website and an ad budget to run on its own
A web developer gave Claude Code a baseline site, ad accounts with a budget, and scraping tools, and lets it make marketing decisions every four hours.
Make Claude’s replies half as long with a plugin
A developer annoyed by long, filler-heavy replies built a Claude Code plugin that cuts them.
- Difficulty
- BeginnerOur rating
- Time to build
- est. 5 minutesOur estimate
- Monthly cost
- Not reported
- Revenue
- Not reportedWe only show revenue the source states
- Engagement
- 25 HN points18 comments · fetched Oct 15, 2026
What they did
lowenbjer found system prompts were forgotten after a few turns, so he built Terse.
How it went
He says it halves reply length by cutting filler.
Worth knowing
Shorter replies also save tokens.
Builder recipe
Our own starting point, written from the source. Adapt it to your setup.
Stack
- Claude Code
- claude-terse
Steps
- Open the repo in your coding agent and describe the goal and constraints.
- Ask for a plan first, then let it implement in small, reviewable steps.
- Run the tests or the app after each step and feed errors back.
- Review the diff before merging.
Starter prompt
Answer in at most 4 sentences. No recaps, slogans or metaphors.Tags
Read the original
- Hacker News: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49995809 ↗ (opens in new tab) Oct 7, 2026 · 25 points, 18 comments (fetched 2026-10-15)
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