Using Claude Code and Supabase to Create a Hand-Tracking App
AI Summary
The video showcases building a hand-tracking interactive app using Anthropic’s Cloud Code combined with Supabase backend. It begins with setting up Cloud Code, installing tools, and creating an app with React, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS. The developer implements webcam hand tracking with skeleton overlays using Google’s MediaPipe library, enabling pinch and drag gestures to manipulate UI elements like circles and database table icons.
Throughout the development, the creator iteratively prompts Cloud Code to fix issues and add features such as camera selection, real-time hand gesture detection, draggable Supabase tables UI, a futuristic ‘Iron Man’ inspired design, and a chart generation feature from tables dragged into a drop zone. Challenges like UI flickering, real-time video analysis performance, and chart accuracy are addressed by refining prompts and restarting sessions.
The app ends with functional hand tracking, gesture-driven UI interactions, and basic data visualization with charts generated from Supabase table data. Although advanced data joins or complex charting are limited, the video emphasizes the power of Cloud Code for rapidly prototyping unique interactive apps with minimal manual coding.