I Live in a Van and Vibe-Coded a Global News Aggregator With Claude for $150/mo

I live in a Fiat Ducato campervan with my wife and a cat named Zhuzhu. Three years ago I started a WordPress calendar of van life events — festivals, meetups, expos. Everything manual. Every morning the same routine: open dozens of tabs looking for events, end up finding news instead. A city banned overnight parking. A new campsite opened in Portugal. Spain tightened its camping rules. Read it, close the tab — gone. At some point I realized: the news was the product. The event calendar was just a side feature. That's how OpenVan.camp was born. The entire project was vibe-coded with Claude and ChatGPT. I'm not a developer. What It Does Parses 200+ sources from 40+ countries Clusters duplicates into stories using AI embeddings Translates everything into 7 languages automatically Tracks 650+ events worldwide Auto-publishes to Telegram, WhatsApp, VK, Facebook, Threads Built-in tools: visa calculator, fuel prices, currency converter 2.5 months in. 5,800 stories. Full autopilot. Why I Built