Run a family dashboard and morning music with Claude
A commenter built a family dashboard with calendars, pictures and weather that has its own email and phone, and plays music through HomePods at 6 a.m.
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- What they did
- One commenter said they used Claude to build a family dashboard on an old iMac that shows calendars, pictures, weather, and dad jokes, instead of paying for Dakboard. In the same thread, another commenter described a Mac Studio set up with Claude as the sole user, persistent memory, cameras, sound arrays, its own email and cell phone, and said it manages household tasks, writes the calendar, schedules appointments, and can trigger HomePods at 6am.
- How it went
- The dashboard owner said they ended up with a fully customized version for free. The more advanced home setup was described as doing a wide range of chores, but the commenter also called out privacy concerns and odd side effects.
- Worth knowing
- The strongest catch is that these are two separate comments in the thread, not one step-by-step build log from a single person.
Try it yourself with Claude
Build a simple family dashboard web page that shows [our shared calendar], [a rotating photo folder], and the weather for [city]. Also add a scheduled job that plays [playlist or music service] on [speakers, e.g. HomePods] at [time] each morning. Run it locally, give me the steps to put it on a [wall tablet/spare screen], and ask me before connecting any accounts or enabling anything that sends messages.
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