Building in Public with AI
I'm not a developer. I'm an operations consultant who runs a small business. But with Claude Code, I'm building real software — websites, automations, tools — and documenting the entire journey here.
This series covers what works, what doesn't, and what it actually looks like when a non-technical person builds with AI as their co-pilot.
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Let me download my own data
Vibecoding changed what one person can build. The bottleneck now is companies still treating my own data like I need permission to have it.
My AI runs a weekly infrastructure audit
Monitoring tells me what's on fire. It can't tell me what's quietly rotting. Once a week, Claude Code sweeps my stack looking for the stuff I'd never check on my own. Here's what it found last Monday.
I cancelled my Raindrop subscription and rebuilt the replacement in a few hours
I had about 6,400 bookmarks in Raindrop. I moved them all into Notion, built a new capture pipeline, and stopped paying for a single-purpose tool. Claude Code wrote almost all the code.
The best thing about two AIs is when they disagree
I run two AI models on every pull request, blind to each other's work. The disagreements are where the real catches come from.
The best thing I did with AI was give it a server
Most people use AI as a conversation partner. I gave mine a $7 server, a deploy platform, and an automation engine — and it changed what I could build.
I made 1.2 million emails searchable
I backed up every email I've ever sent or received, indexed it all for full-text search, and built a daily digest that tells me what actually needs my attention. Here's how.
I built a social posting pipeline without writing most of the code
How I used Claude Code to build a fully automated posting system for Twitter and Bluesky. I directed the architecture, Claude wrote the code, and it's been running for months.
I built a self-hosted RSS system that actually keeps me informed
Email newsletters were drowning me. Algorithm feeds were wasting my time. So I used Claude Code to build a self-hosted RSS setup with Miniflux, NetNewsWire, and an AI filter that only shows me stuff worth reading.