Hi folks. I’m a professional writer, not an engineer, and just wanted to share a project I’ve been building over the past few weeks. To be clear this project is 100% not monetized (it’s actually costing me money, technically) so hopefully talking about it here doesn’t break any rules. Happy to speak to the mods if they have any questions or concerns of course. But basically I used Claude Code (via a Framework laptop running Omarchy) to build a full baseball simulation where Sonnet manages all 30 MLB teams, writes game recaps, conducts postgame press conferences, and generates audio podcasts (via an ElevanLabs clone of my voice). The whole thing (simulation engine, AI manager layer, content pipeline, Discord bot, and a 21-page website) took about two weeks and $50 in API credits. Opus is quite expensive (I used it for one aspect of the simulation) but thankfully caching helped keep its costs down. The site is deepdugout.com Some of the things Claude Code helped me build:
- A plate-appearance-level simulation engine with real player stats from FanGraphs
- 30 distinct AI manager personalities (~800 words each) based on real MLB managers
- Smart query gating to reduce API calls from ~150/game to ~25-30
- A Discord bot that broadcasts 15 games simultaneously with a live scoreboard
- A full content pipeline that generates recaps, press conferences, and analysis
- An Astro 5 + Tailwind v4 website Happy to answer questions about the process. Thank you! submitted by /u/yesdeleon
Originally posted by u/yesdeleon on r/ClaudeCode