I keep seeing YouTube videos of people showing off these elaborate Claude Code setups, hooks, plugins, custom workflows chained together, etc. and claiming it 10x’d their productivity. Meanwhile, my setup is extremely minimal and I’m wondering if I’m leaving a lot on the table. My approach is basically: when I notice I’m doing something manually over and over, I automate it. That’s it, nothing else. For example: I was making a lot of PDFs, so I built a skill with my preferred formatting I needed those PDFs on my phone, so I made a tool + skill to send them to me via Telegram Needed Claude to take screenshots / look at my screen a lot so built tool + skill for those Global CLAUDE.md is maybe 10 lines. My projects’ CLAUDE.md files are similarly bare-bones. Everything works fine and I’m happy with the output, but watching these videos makes me feel like I’m missing something. For those of you with more elaborate setups, what am I actually missing? How to 10x my productivity? Genuinely curious whether the minimal approach is underrated or if there’s a level of productivity I just haven’t experienced yet submitted by /u/Azrael_666
Originally posted by u/Azrael_666 on r/ClaudeCode