I used Claude to build a dashboard that aggregates news articles, trending videos, livestreams and radio stations into one place. Minus the AI slop look.

A developer used Claude to create "The Daily Orbit," a global dashboard aggregating news articles, trending Instagram and TikTok videos, YouTube livestreams, and radio stations. The project also includes a rebuilt TweetDeck newsfeed and a research assistant named Orbit. Claude Opus 5 was crucial for brainstorming features, and Claude Design helped avoid an "AI slop look." The developer noted that Opus 5.5 didn't show significant reasoning improvement over Opus 4.8, and using Ultracode for code review consumed a Max plan rapidly due to spawning 200 agents.

This account details the specific Claude models used for different development stages, unlike other reports that only mention Claude generally.