A non-programmer's cat tracker for Mewgenics now has 600 users
The game doesn't show all your cats at once, and you can have 100+. Within a day Claude Code built a PyQt6 tracker; two months on, it has 600 users and Chinese, Russian and Polish versions.
Done withClaude Code✓ Verified· by HN user frankieg33· Oct 15, 2026
Result Translated into Chinese, Russian and Polish
“so within a day, i had claude code make me a PyQt6 app that over the next ~2 months grew in complexity and functionality.”
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What they did
The game Mewgenics doesn’t show all your cats at once, and you can have upwards of 100, which is too many to keep in your head. So within a day they had Claude Code build a PyQt6 desktop app, and kept growing it over about two months.
How it went
It became their first shipped software: 600 users, with translations into Chinese, Russian and Polish. They call the speed from idea to production unbelievable, and say they learned a lot about how software development works.
Try it yourself with Claude Code
I'm not a programmer. I play [game] and want a desktop app that [shows all my items or tracks something] because the game makes it hard to [problem]. Build a first version in Python with a simple window, explain how to run it, and suggest the next three features. Keep the code organised so we can keep adding to it.
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