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18 May 20261 min read

My First Artifact

Building an Artifact in Claude. My top-pick -> Pomodoro timer

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Artifacts in claude

Claude allows you to build these interactive components/apps that it runs inside Claude Desktop/Web app.

They can be anything from mini-games. To-do list apps. Task Trackers.

You can also build live-artifacts. These can be refreshed daily/whenever you open them. So they can fetch live data when you open them - good for dashboards. They can persist data to storage.

Where artifacts shine vs. where they don’t:

Good fit: personal tools, prototypes, visualizations, learning exercises, single-user apps, things you’d otherwise build a quick Nuxt SPA for but don’t want to deploy.

Bad fit: multi-user apps, anything needing a real backend/database, anything needing OAuth to third-party services from your own server, production apps with traffic.