Building a Terminal UI for Hatchet in 2 Days Using Claude Code and Charm Stack
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Summary
The article describes the author's experience discovering Claude Code, a terminal-based coding agent, and how it inspired them to build a terminal UI for their own product, Hatchet. The author shares their initial skepticism turning to excitement about the potential of terminal-based agents for developers. They detail how their team used Claude Code along with the Charm stack (Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss) to build and ship a terminal UI for Hatchet in just 2 days, emphasizing the power of a tight feedback loop and the efficiency of terminal-based development tools.
Key quotes
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Within the first 30 minutes, I was convinced: this was going to be huge. So huge that we at Hatchet discussed whether we should build a new product line around terminal-based coding agents.
It seems so simple and obvious in hindsight that a terminal-based agent would have a incredibly fast adoption curve among developers.
How we built and shipped a terminal UI for Hatchet in 2 days using Claude Code, the Charm stack (Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss), and a tight feedback loop.
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