How I rebuild my hobby project in over 2 weekends with ChatGPT & Claude

Overview I rebuilt my hobby project in over 2 weeks with the help of OpenAI's ChatGPT and Antrophic's Claude (Sonnet 4.5). In this post, I am going to share the details on how I do it: the fun things, the trade-offs, and takeaways. Background I started this project called github-langs (site: https://gitstats.wildans.us ) back in 2017. It was the very first time for me to get into so-called open-source project. I remember vividly that Hacktoberfest got me into it. For those who don't know, "Hacktoberfest" was a month-long activity that held by DigitalOcean and GitHub (at least how it was in 2017) where developers around the world try to collaborate each other in the spirit of open-source project: everyone can be anything from maintainer to contributor and users. And I did become one of them. I created the github-langs project, a web-based application to visualize the language distribution for a given github account. This is how it looked back then (and still is at https://gitstats.wilda