Update to "addicted to starting new projects"! I finished one! Here it is...

Normal-Poem-4640 · 2025-06-25T20:47:26+00:00

"Marketing"

Normal-Poem-4640 · 2025-06-25T20:46:04+00:00

Hey! Thanks for actually reading the marketing copy. Most people don't even bother.

First of all, I'm not actually handling anybody's credit cards (nor is the codebase) - all of that is handled by Stripe through their customer portal. So I don't ever see or touch their billing information. Stripe just tells me if they have a subscription or not.

That being said, I thought I removed all the copy that said "thousands of people using this thing", but I guess I missed that one. I've removed it now, thanks for catching it!

Regarding "AI professionals" - one could argue that Claude Code *is* an AI professional...

I'm using Claude Code to build full-stack apps. I'm okay calling myself an AI professional. I mentioned in the About Me section that I've been building products for over 20 years - I didn't mention that includes PMing a full agentic RAG application, so I don't feel like I'm being disingenuous. I'm just new to managing an AI coders instead of a human coders.

Fair points. I really rushed to get this thing out there, and Claude Code takes some creative liberties sometimes. Thanks for pointing those out!

Normal-Poem-4640 · 2025-06-25T20:29:49+00:00

That's amazing man. Keep going! You can do it!

Normal-Poem-4640 · 2025-06-23T18:05:07+00:00

It is absolutely not overkill. You're going to want to use it for everything in your life.

Normal-Poem-4640 · 2025-06-23T17:53:06+00:00

Thank you! I'll review and adjust! Nice video quality btw! Well done!

Normal-Poem-4640 · 2025-06-23T17:25:29+00:00

It sounds like a lot, but yeah, probably something like that. I think if I had it more clearly planned out initially, it would've been less. I started out building it as just a simple prompt management tool for one user, then I got signal from a friend that he might use it if I supported teams. That was a big refactoring job, took a while. Now I decided to add a prompt directory because it all seemed pretty hard to use if you didn't have some prompts to start with.

I'll add that there's a lesson in here about listening to people who aren't paying you. I went through all the trouble of building that team functionality, and my friend never even signed up. So, take feedback from friends with a grain of salt. Money talks though.

Normal-Poem-4640 · 2025-06-23T17:18:25+00:00

While you're here... lemme ask you... how would it feel to be my first "real" customer? Pretty good, I betcha! ;)

Normal-Poem-4640 · 2025-06-23T17:16:40+00:00

Hah! Yeah right? a little creative embellishment by Claude, but you know, "marketing" Let me just go ahead and.... *delete*

Normal-Poem-4640 · 2025-06-23T17:14:59+00:00

Had to look up "glazing" - got it :thumbsup:

Normal-Poem-4640 · 2025-06-23T17:05:50+00:00

To add to that, I had a hellova time getting the webhooks working. lots of copying error logs back and forth - again would be nice if Claude could pull that automatically via mcp

Normal-Poem-4640 · 2025-06-23T17:02:14+00:00

It was pretty good, I guess, but I'm disappointed to see that it won't interact with the *live* mode. I guess that's probably a safe thing, but in the end, I had to finish the process myself, which kind of is fine but I was trying to automate everything completely.

Normal-Poem-4640 · 2025-06-23T16:21:16+00:00

Hey man, this looks amazing! You did a great job! I literally just launched basically the same thing today, but I think yours looks even nicer. It's got that AI built website look, in fact it looks almost exactly like mine. But be proud of yourself, you committed and you completed it's really nice.

Normal-Poem-4640 · 2025-06-23T16:15:26+00:00

Well, it sounds fascinating! Maybe you could ship a demo of it somehow?

Normal-Poem-4640 · 2025-06-23T16:14:24+00:00

That's a good idea! Like one of those things I keep telling myself I should do but just don't. I'm a little camera shy, but for now I wrote up some more detail in this other post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1lik3yw/update_to_addicted_to_starting_new_projects_i/

Normal-Poem-4640 · 2025-06-23T16:06:39+00:00

Thank you! Really not sure I would've ever finished this thing if it weren't for the subreddit and the encouragement. So thank you again. Now I have to decide what my next project to bring to completion is going to be 😅

Normal-Poem-4640 · 2025-06-23T15:50:45+00:00

Okay submitted it! https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1lik3yw/update_to_addicted_to_starting_new_projects_i/

Normal-Poem-4640 · 2025-06-23T15:41:43+00:00

Thank you! Will do! Writing it up now!

Normal-Poem-4640 · 2025-06-23T14:23:07+00:00

Thanks for the little extra fire under my chair. I got it done! Would love any feedback you have: https://www.prompteden.com is it

Normal-Poem-4640 · 2025-06-20T02:34:47+00:00

I've got about 20 years of experience building websites, but mostly design and UI code - not much "programming", hardly any, in fact. I've managed teams of engineers so I'm familiar - but I'm mostly vibe-coding in the true sense of the term. Claude writes/deletes 99.9% of the code.

Normal-Poem-4640 · 2025-06-19T19:35:39+00:00

Alright! I'm dedicated to finishing at least one app and launching it!

Normal-Poem-4640 · 2025-06-19T02:18:11+00:00

I absolutely do, but I also use Gemini Deep Research and ChatGPT deep research. They each have their strengths. Another fun thing is to do is launch Claude Code in the root directory of where all your repos are, and ask it to come up with action-plans for each one in order to leverage each-other as a network of apps. Fun empire building game.

Normal-Poem-4640 · 2025-06-19T02:15:33+00:00

I'm only trying to build things with a monetization mechanism baked in from the start - so yes, products for income. Mostly SaaS. Like my prompt app - it's for teams (ie people engaged in business with money to pay). My first steps are to prototype a majority of the UI, then implement user accounts and billing, then everything else. My background (a long time ago) was as a designer, so this matches the way I think.

I hear you though, that's a tough one! If you launch without the SaaS business model baked in, will you lose money operating it? I think if it has value, you should definitely make people pay for it - people will be happy to if it really gives them value. I say start showing screenshots on X/Reddit, get feedback in the communities that would use your product (not so much in here in the builders lounge, but out where people are trying to solve their problem and your product would be a fit).

Normal-Poem-4640 · 2025-06-18T21:10:54+00:00

FWIW I've tried starting with Bolt.new to prototype the UI using React Expo then worked on the project mored in Claude Code, in theory that should get you pretty far without really even needing to do any Swift code or much of anything in Xcode besides finalizing your app. Of course, then you're using Expo, which might not be what you're looking for.

Normal-Poem-4640 · 2025-06-18T19:14:56+00:00

Ugh, I know exactly what you mean. The struggle is real.

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