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A Civilization-style presidential election simulator
A former Netscape product manager set out to build a sophisticated presidential election strategy game with Claude Code on an $800 budget.
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- Reddit poster Power-Play-PolySci Source ↗
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A veteran Silicon Valley product manager who worked at Netscape wanted to show his AI-sceptic son what Claude Code could do. He chose to build a presidential election simulator, something like Civilization, with as much sophistication as Claude Code could handle, on a budget of $800 and a staff of one.
He treated Claude Code like a development team, writing requirements for it through the terminal in Visual Studio Code, and used Midjourney for the first concept of the game's strategy dashboard. The post excerpt does not say how far the game got.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Building a Sophisticated Presidential Election Sim Pushing Claude Code to Its’ LimitsReddit poster: Power-Play-PolySciPosted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
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