Claude Code examples: 57 real use cases with prompts

Migrate two websites from WordPress to Wagtail with Claude Code

Over a weekend Claude Code migrated two sites from WordPress to Wagtail (PHP to Python), including server setup, data transfer, testing and fixes, and redesigned a homepage; the poster reports nothing broke and traffic and tools stayed in place.

Find smarter buying patterns in office supply order history with Claude Code

Alex Hillman had Claude Code go through Indy Hall's paper products order history to suggest buying patterns that avoid costly last-minute orders.

Plan a family Disneyland trip with Claude Code and Skills

The poster planned a family Disneyland trip using Claude Code as the agent, Claude Skills for research, planning, tracking and journaling, and a simple companion web app for itineraries and maps.

Do year-end bookkeeping and Xero reconciliation with Claude Code

Claude Code categorized a folder of receipts, cross-referenced exported bank CSVs against Xero to find duplicates and missing transactions, used the browser extension to report on reconciliation items, and produced a cost-cutting report; the poster says this replaced roughly $2–3K of accounting-firm work.

Poster says:~2–3K accounting-firm fee avoided

Spot when you avoid conflict in meeting recordings with Claude Code

Dan Shipper puts all their meeting recordings in a folder and asks Claude Code to find every time they subtly avoided conflict.

Diagnose why your Mac is running slow with Claude Code

Anthony Roux uses Claude Code to check load, memory pressure, disk space, stuck processes and swap, dig into causes like caches, Docker and Time Machine snapshots, explain the results and suggest fixes with risk notes.

Organize 12,000 photos by date and find duplicates with Claude Code

Asked to organize 12,000+ photos by EXIF date and location, find duplicates and group burst shots, Claude Code built year/month folders and an event summary, found 3,200 duplicates and 890 burst shots, and surfaced photos the author thought were lost, in about twenty minutes.

Poster says:3,200 duplicates found

Migrate a 50-screen app from Firebase to Supabase with Claude Code

Going feature by feature, the poster used Claude Code to generate database schemas, write queries and fix daily errors; they report migrating about 85% of a 45–50 screen Flutter app from Firebase to Supabase in 10–20 days.

Poster says:~85% migrated in 10–20 days

Turn one video script into a newsletter, titles, thread and description with Claude Code subagents

From one long-form video script, an orchestrator in Claude Code calls subagents that write a newsletter, generate titles, create thumbnails, write a thread and draft the YouTube description.

Turn 200 photos of household items into a moving-sale list with Claude Code

Claude Code processed over 200 photos of the poster's household items and created a moving-sale list with descriptions and prices; the poster says it saved hours compared with writing Facebook Marketplace listings by hand.

Let a whole team self-serve data via an agent-written schema guide

Claude Code wrote a markdown guide to the company's data model and business terms from SQLMesh context and past queries; Hex's agent now handles the team's data requests. The team had posted a data analyst role, and the poster now thinks the role is 'completely dead'.

Audit 90 days of Meta ads from a CSV export with Claude Code

Claude Code flagged 14 money-losing creatives, found that 7 of the top 10 ads opened with a question, and spotted 3 ad sets cannibalizing each other.

Poster says:14 money-losing creatives flagged

Automate a daily cold-email pipeline with Claude Code

A weekend-built Claude Code pipeline scrapes leads, scores them against the ICP, writes spintax copy and launches the Instantly campaign with one command; the poster says it saves about 2 hours each morning.

Poster says:2 hours back every morning

Merge provider price CSVs into one comparison table with Claude Code

Claude Code read several local CSVs of model prices from different providers and produced one organized comparison table grouped by provider.

Automate a daily analytics summary to Slack with Claude Code

Claude Code set up a GitHub Actions cron that pulls PostHog data at 8am, summarizes it in Python and posts to Slack; the first report arrived the next morning.

Build a weekly business KPI dashboard workflow with Claude Code + n8n

Claude Code built a complex n8n workflow for a client's weekly KPI dashboard in about 15 minutes; the workflow then runs unattended on n8n.

Break writer's block on a book with Claude Code interviews

Claude Code reviewed a book draft, interviewed the author to fill gaps, and adapted their dictated answers into the manuscript in their own voice.

Debrief an 84-minute YouTube panel with Claude Code

Claude Code installed yt-dlp, pulled and cleaned the captions of an 84-minute Gurley/Gerstner/Nadella talk, wrote focused debriefs, then packaged it as a reusable skill.

Analyze every entry of a huge JSONL file with Claude Code subagents

Claude Code previewed the data, trimmed fields, defined a schema and ran hundreds of Haiku subagents over ~45 minutes so every entry in a large JSONL file was analyzed.

Compare Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI on a 97k-message chat dataset

The poster gave the same 97k-message WeChat dataset to Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI as analysts and published results with an evaluation table.

Run async code-research benchmarks with a coding agent

Asked only about cmarkgfm, Claude Code found six other Python Markdown libraries by itself, benchmarked all seven and wrote a report with charts, in which cmarkgfm came out on top; the author notes they haven't been reviewing these reports in great detail.

Build a terminal-to-HTML sharing tool with Claude Code for web

Claude Code for web built a terminal-to-html tool that turns pasted terminal output into a shareable gist-preview link, recorded start to finish in an 11-minute video.

Get DeepSeek-OCR running on an NVIDIA Spark with Claude Code

With four prompts and about 40 minutes, Claude Code figured out the right ARM CUDA PyTorch wheels, got DeepSeek-OCR running on NVIDIA Spark hardware, and OCR'd a test image.

Sort and rename messy invoices for taxes with Claude Code

Claude Code reads each file in a messy invoice folder, renames it to 'YYYY-MM-DD Vendor - Invoice - ProductOrService.pdf' and files it in the right folder.