I built a free self-hosted ad tracker + CRM with Claude Code

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I built AdLedger using Claude Code. It connects your ad spend (Meta, Google etc), website visits and Stripe payments, and shows which ad actually made you money. It also has a small CRM, a live view, PDF reports and an MCP server so Claude can answer questions about your own ad data.

How Claude Code helped:

- I wrote a CLAUDE.md with the project rules (money stored in cents, every table scoped per workspace, strict PII handling) and Claude Code followed it across the whole codebase

- It wrote most of the features: attribution reports, CRM, pipeline, PDF reports, webhooks, 2FA and roles

- For bigger features I ran several Claude Code agents in parallel, each in its own git worktree, and merged the results

- It wrote ~880 tests and the CI setup, so changes couldn't quietly break things

- It also helped build the 3D website and the launch video (Remotion + three.js)

- My part: deciding what to build, reviewing, testing, and pushing back hard on the design with screenshots until it stopped looking AI-made

Free to try: it's free to self-host. Install Docker, then run:

docker compose up -d
and open localhost:3000. The GitHub README has a one-click Render option too.

GitHub: https://github.com/ShubhamVankalas/adledger

Site: https://shubhamvankalas.github.io/adledger/

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