Claude Code examples: 57 real use cases with prompts
57 cases where people used Claude Code.
Includes cases labeled Claude Code (56), Claude Code for web (1). Each case keeps the label its source used.
Turn stroller-walk voice notes into a published article with Claude Code
A non-developer fed rambling voice notes to Claude Code, which organized them into research themes, wrote a full article in their voice and made LinkedIn versions.
ContentWriting & slidesClaude CodeWorkedRecreated promptEvidence: Article or interviewView CaseWrite and ship a complete Datasette plugin with Claude Code
Claude Code (Sonnet 4.5) wrote every line of code and every test for the datasette-os-info plugin with minimal prompting, and the author shipped it.
CodingBuild appsClaude CodeWorkedEvidence: Screenshots or logsView CaseMake a UK tax research agent from a folder of HMRC manuals with Claude Code
Using scraped HMRC manuals and legislation plus a CLAUDE.md that launches parallel subagents, Claude Code answered an ATT exam question in about 5 minutes, earning roughly 2.5 of 3 marks by the author's grading.
ResearchResearch toolsClaude CodeWorkedRecreated promptEvidence: Screenshots or logsView CaseRename, organize and de-duplicate files with Claude Code
Claude Code organized and renamed the poster's files and folders and found and removed duplicates; the poster says it worked incredibly well.
PersonalEmail & calendarClaude CodeWorkedRecreated promptEvidence: Described by posterView CaseDiagnose a Kubernetes pod-scheduling outage with Claude Code
Anthropic's Data Infrastructure team gave Claude Code dashboard screenshots, and it traced the problem to pod IP exhaustion and supplied the commands to add a new IP pool; Anthropic says this saved about 20 minutes during an outage.
According to Anthropic:20 minutes saved during an outage
OpsBusiness adminClaude CodeWorkedRecreated promptEvidence: Company case studyView CaseOrganize 225 Apple Notes with Claude Code
Claude Code read and changed the local Apple Notes database and organized 225 notes in about 5 minutes with little manual effort.
Poster says:225 notes organized in about 5 minutes
PersonalEmail & calendarClaude CodeWorkedRecreated promptEvidence: Described by posterView CaseTurn a blog post into a Quarto slide deck with Claude Code
Claude Code read one of the author's blog posts and turned it into a Quarto slide deck in three prompts.
ContentWriting & slidesClaude CodeWorkedRecreated promptEvidence: Described by posterView CaseGenerate a colophon page for a GitHub Pages site with Claude Code
Claude Code wrote a script that builds a mobile-friendly colophon page listing every tool and its commit history, then wired it into the GitHub Pages deploy workflow.
CodingBuild appsClaude CodeWorkedEvidence: Screenshots or logsView CaseVibe-code a 3D town-building game with Claude Code
From a single informal prompt, Claude Code built a working 3D game for placing buildings and driving around in about four minutes; follow-up prompts added a fire truck, traffic, and fires.
Reported by One Useful Thing:Working game in about four minutes
CodingBuild appsClaude CodeWorkedImproved promptEvidence: Article or interviewView Case