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Building My First "Useful" Automation with Claude Code

A weekly scraper, a Next.js dashboard, and a Google Calendar integration, end to end.

Date

April 2026

Technologies
Claude CodeNext.jsTypeScriptPythonGoogle Calendar API
Building My First "Useful" Automation with Claude Code

A Problem Worth Solving

I follow eight (and growing) data and AI meetup groups in the DC metro area. Finding these events was easy. Keeping track of them across different email lists, announced at unpredictable times, with no single place to see what was coming up, was the real challenge. More than once I found out about something I would have loved to attend the day after it happened.

I wanted a one-stop shop. Every upcoming event I cared about, in one place, with a single click to RSVP.

The second motivation was just as important. I wanted to build something genuinely useful with Claude Code. Not a tutorial project. Something I would actually use often.

That's what became dcdataandai.com.

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