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SyneRydertoday at 7:55 AM1 replyview on HN

I've just had a SaaS that I use decide to implement a 2.4x price increase. I reacted instead by taking screenshots of every page of the SaaS, downloading their API docs, exporting what data I could, and asking Claude to build a self-hosted clone based just on those files. I had a read-only version of my entire data history completed in a single evening. Even at Opus API rates, it cost me less than half the price of a single annual seat.


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grepfru_ittoday at 10:04 AM

Heh and without api docs, just copy and paste the urls from network traffic and Claude will write a library for you.