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Re:The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup by lostmsu on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @07:53AM (#46525871)
He began hiring in 2018.

Also, "Plenty of Fish uses a Microsoft-based platform for itself, including IIS, ASP.NET, and Microsoft SQL".

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Re:The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup by Jeremy1026 on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @02:15PM (#46531087)
So if I make a website that uses Nginx, Ruby, and Postgres, does that mean that I don't get credit for making it since I use other tools?
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Re:The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup by lostmsu on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @02:24PM (#46531214)
No, I just brought attention to the stack because it's not "sexy".
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Re:The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup by disgruntledphd2 on Friday January 09, 2026 @04:18AM (#46551720)
> He began hiring in 2018.

2008 I think (from the wikipedia article). I met my now wife on the platform in 2013. I do think it counts, and it's important to note that even pre-AI, software has incredible leverage for small teams/individual people.

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Re:The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup by lostmsu on Friday January 09, 2026 @07:11AM (#46553068)
Of course it doesn't count. He is not a solopreneur at $500M.
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