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I spent $0.03 to build a content workflow I thought would cost me hundreds

I'm not a copywriter. Not a marketer. I handle admin stuff at my company and a few days ago I got asked to start prepping social media content. No budget to hire someone, zero experience doing this kind of thing. Claude Code is where most of the real work happens at my job, so I figured there had to be a way to make it work here too. A friend told me to try out Lava, specifically their gateway. Had no clue how it worked tbh, but I connected the Lava MCP to Claude Code and just went for it. Here's what caught me off guard: the moment I connected, I had access to research tools I never signed up for. Exa, Serper, Tavily. No accounts. No API keys. No monthly subscriptions. They were just there through the gateway. My workflow was pretty simple. I had Claude search for trending topics in our industry, give me a take on what actually mattered, and put together a first draft. The output wasn't perfect but it was like 80% there. I looked it over, added some context, tweaked the angle, and had something real to post. Total cost: $0.03. I wanna be clear, I'm not selling anything here. I'm sharing something that happened and worked. For someone in my position (not an expert, no budget, wearing way too many hats), this was kind of a big deal. Not because the content was incredible, but because I could actually do it myself instead of waiting on someone else or spending money we don't have. The thing people miss about automating small workflows like this: it's not just about saving time. It's that it frees you up to focus on stuff that actually needs your brain. Content prep was gonna eat hours every week. Now it doesn't. If you're using Claude Code and haven't tried connecting external tools through an MCP gateway, seriously, give it a shot. The pay-per-use model through Lava meant I didn't have to commit to anything. $0.03 to test whether a workflow works is a pretty solid deal. submitted by /u/Key_Farmer9710 [link] [comments]

Claude Code AWS Gateway

I built an open-source gateway specific for running Claude Code on AWS. Currently when Claude code on Bedrock has limitations such as no web search, and rudimentary observability and user spend/attribution - atleast without deploying or building your own extensions. LiteLLM proxy is most similar to this, but for a lot of companies who only need it for CC, it's overkill. So I built CCAG (Claude Code AWS Gateway). It sits between Claude Code and Bedrock, presents itself as the Anthropic Messages API, and Claude Code enables its full feature set. Inference still runs through your AWS account. What you get out of the box: Web search (DuckDuckGo/Tavily/Serper/custom per user) Virtual API keys so your devs don't need AWS credentials Per-user and per-team budgets (notify, throttle, or hard block) Multi-account/region routing with failover and sticky user routing for cache affinity OIDC SSO (Okta, Azure AD, Google, whatever has a .well-known endpoint) Admin portal with spend analytics, model mix, latency percentiles, tool usage tracking One-command dev onboarding from a Connect page in the portal Webhook, SNS, EventBridge for budget alerts Written in Rust (axum), adds about 1-5ms overhead. Deploy with Docker Compose or AWS CDK (Fargate + RDS) Free, MIT licensed, every feature included. No enterprise tier or feature gates. Still early days - published yesterday, very much a passion project. Next up is custom guardrails (input/output validation rules) and SMTP for budget notifications so you don't need SNS. Would love feedback, feature requests, or just to hear if others are hitting the same Bedrock limitations. GitHub: https://github.com/antkawam/claude-code-aws-gateway Docs: https://antkawam.github.io/claude-code-aws-gateway submitted by /u/antimoto [link] [comments]