Your First Claude Code Project When You Are Not a Developer
A step-by-step first session with Claude Code for people who have never coded: install it, start in plan mode, review every change, and use git as an undo button so nothing is ever lost.
A step-by-step first session with Claude Code for people who have never coded: install it, start in plan mode, review every change, and use git as an undo button so nothing is ever lost.
Emergent is an agent-based AI app builder that writes a full-stack app and hosts it for you. Here is what it does well, where it costs you, and when Lovable or Claude Code is the better pick.
For builders already shipping: how I use Claude Code to add Stripe subscriptions with server-verified webhooks, a sandbox, and a list of failure cases to test before real money moves.
I share what I am building while I build it, including the parts that do not work. Here is why I do it, what it has done for me and how I keep it useful instead of noisy.
Most first-time founders price too low and change it too rarely. Here is how I think through pricing a first SaaS product, from the value metric to the first price test.
The AI did exactly what you said, not what you meant. Here is the prompting playbook I use with Lovable and other AI builders to get working features with fewer rewrites.
A brand-new SaaS site has no authority and no traffic. Here is the short list of SEO work that actually matters in the first few months, and what to skip.
For builders with an AI feature already live: track cost per user, pick smaller models, use prompt caching, set per-user limits and spend caps, and move background work to cheaper processing.
Claude gives you three different ways to build: plain chat, artifacts and Claude Code. Here is what each one is good at, where each one stops, and how I decide which to open for a given job.
A day-by-day checklist for launch week: what to test, what to set up, what to post and what to watch so your launch does not fall apart on the first real user.
One email a week. Ship logs, tool changes, and first dibs on seats.