COMMENT "HACKERTUBE"
Turn any mountain of text into a finished site with Claude
Claude read 43 million forum comments and built a free video site (hackertube.org) in about 2 hours. The move works on any big messy pile of text you already have. Here's the exact prompt.
01Quick steps
- 1Pick your mountain of text: saved posts, notes, chat logs, reviews, a folder of docs.
- 2Use Claude, or Claude Code if it's a lot of files.
- 3Give it the prompt below: pull out the things you want, dedupe, sort, output clean HTML.
- 4Open the HTML it makes, or host it free.
- 5To go bigger, have Claude Code process the text in chunks and merge the results.
02Your ready to use prompt
Prompt: 'Here is a large set of messy text. Pull out every [recommended video / tool / book / tip]. For each one give: the name, a one-line why it was recommended, and the link if there is one. Remove duplicates, sort by how often it is mentioned, and output a single clean HTML page I can open in a browser, with a simple search box.'
03Full tutorial
You do not have to read everything anymore. You hand a huge pile of text to the AI, tell it exactly what to pull out, and it gives you the finished, sorted result, even a working web page. That is what turned 43 million comments into a usable site.
Choose something you already have that is too big to read: your saved posts or bookmarks, a forum or group export, years of your own notes, customer reviews, chat logs, or a folder of documents. The messier it is, the more this helps.
For a chunk of text you can paste, use Claude at https://claude.ai. For many files or something very large, use Claude Code so it can read the files directly and loop through them.
Tell it precisely what to pull out, in what shape. Use the prompt in the box above. The key is being specific: name the exact thing you want (videos, tools, quotes), the fields for each, and that it should remove duplicates and sort by how often something appears.
Do not stop at a list. Ask it to output a single clean HTML page you can open in a browser, with a search box. One file, no setup, you just double-click it. This is what makes it feel like a real product instead of notes.
If the text is too big to do at once, have Claude Code split it into chunks, run the same extraction on each, then merge and dedupe the results into one final list, and build the page from that. It can do this loop on its own.
If you want it online, drop the HTML file on a free host like GitHub Pages or Netlify. Now you have a shareable site, built from text you already had, in an afternoon.
This same pattern works everywhere: turn a year of meeting notes into a searchable decisions page, a pile of reviews into a pros-and-cons page, your bookmarks into a sorted link site. Learn it once, use it forever.
Everything here is free. The only paid part is a Claude plan if you process very large amounts.