How to build personal apps
Kenneth used Lucidos to iterate on a snake game with his son, then expanded the platform to run Claude Code in automatic worktrees and support development from a mobile PWA.
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Build a [small game] in my Lucidos workspace and keep it running while we iterate. Add [sound effects], [a high-score list] and [replays] in separate iterations, asking me for feedback on each working version.
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- The snake game became an installable Lucidos plugin. Kenneth reports faster development after adding Claude Code threads and automatic worktrees, with further iteration available through a mobile PWA.
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- Kenneth and his son iterated on the game; he explicitly reports repeated work on the music snippets.
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How the agent did it
- Built and ran a snake game as the first Lucidos app.
- Iterated with his son on sounds, high scores, replays and music.
- Configured Lucidos to run Claude Code in separate threads with automatic worktrees.
Kenneth built Lucidos, a self-hosted personal agent platform, after wanting his son to create a game through chat and keep it running while they iterated. The first app it ran was a snake game that father and son developed together. They added Mario sounds for eating apples, a high-score list called legends, replays and music snippets. The music needed considerable iteration, and Kenneth says those changes were all prompted through AI using Opus 4.5.
He later made Lucidos run Claude Code in separate threads with worktrees created automatically. He reports that development accelerated, then became easier to continue between family commitments after the platform gained a mobile PWA. The snake game subsequently became an installable plugin.
The platform stores conversations as events, extracts memories and maintains a shared workspace for apps and artifacts. Kenneth also reports using it for sauna logging, family administration, music controls and a CI dashboard. These are reported personal uses rather than independently verified outcomes.
Who it's for: People who want to iteratively build small personal apps through chat and access them from desktop and mobile.
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What did the first Lucidos app do?
It was a snake game Kenneth and his son iterated on, adding apple-eating sounds, a legends high-score list, replays and music snippets.
How did Lucidos support further development?
Kenneth made it run Claude Code in its own threads with automatic worktrees, then added a mobile PWA so he could continue iterating from his phone.
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Remaining steps
- Added a mobile PWA and continued development from his phone.
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Lucidos supported prompted app iteration and later ran Claude Code in separate threads with automatically managed worktrees.
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Tools and topics
Lucidos · Claude Code · Opus 4.5 · Git worktrees
Personal apps · Game development · Self-hosted
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