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Making-of:
shipped in a weekend


This site — and an AI watch bot — from a dinner with friends to a "solid thing shipped in 2 days." Without being a developer, paired with Claude Code.

By Hugo Lahutte · · ~3 min read

The story, short version

Friday, May 29, 2026, dinner with friends. I'm talking about what I tinker with using AI. Since I'd told the same story at lunch, I decide: I need one single place to show all of this, instead of re-explaining it every time.

Saturday morning, I launch the site. And one thing leads to another, everything goes live almost immediately:

  • a journal, a glossary, a tag system, a search feature;
  • a clean dark mode (across 72 pages);
  • an AI Watch page;
  • and then a full-on bot that fetches AI news, has the Claude API summarize it, and publishes to Telegram + the site.

The whole thing designed as one cohesive unit, down to the custom favicon / logo (inspired by Claude, integrated into my art direction) for complete visual consistency.

The two use cases to follow

This is what I document in detail, with real time and cost numbers:

  1. The Knowledge Hub site — static HTML/CSS/JS site, zero framework, on GitHub Pages. Token cost: zero (Claude subscription). We're talking time here.
  2. The AI watch bot — a serverless agent (GitHub Actions): X/Twitter → Claude API → Telegram + site. Real cost: a few cents/day (€100 prepaid "to see," that lasts a very long time).

What's next

LinkedIn announcement of the project, documentation of the Telegram channel, and ongoing public tracking of both projects — because the best proof that a non-dev can ship is to show the making-of, with real numbers.

Let's talk

Building with AI?

I document in public how I ship this kind of project — no pitch, just the urge to talk about it. If you're doing the same and want to compare notes, reach out.