Waiting in line is no fun! While standing in line at Disney World, a developer dad built a custom data app to pick the perfect next ride. It combines live APIs, historical wait times, and weather data into personal software with MotherDuck's MCP, Dives, and Flights.

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A developer built a custom Disney World optimization app while standing in line, using MotherDuck's MCP, Dives (interactive React-based visualizations), and Flights (serverless Python scripts). The app combines live ride wait times from public APIs, historical wait time distributions (displayed as boxplots), weather radar, geospatial maps, and a day scheduler. Claude was used as the AI agent to build the entire app via MCP, with the developer controlling it remotely from a phone. The project illustrates how personal, highly customized data apps can be built quickly using AI agents and an integrated data platform.

Developer Dad Does Disney: Vacationing in the Personal Software Era

<p>I did something similar to this just for the surrounding Orlando area since Disney is no longer a destination was able to pull easy info but I easily ran up over $40 in places API access alone lmao.</p>
