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She Was There When My Daughters Were Born. I Built Her Website.
Pat Dodge was our doula for three births. Now she's an end-of-life midwife in central Ohio — and she didn't have a website. I used Claude Code to build her one in about three hours.
Building a Cancer Clinical Trial Finder With ChatGPT Codex
Cancer Trial Compass is a working AI-assisted prototype for helping patients and caregivers search active cancer clinical trials by diagnosis, biomarkers, location, and travel radius.
My Brother Has Been Shooting Film for Years. I Finally Built Him a Website.
My brother Tom has been shooting 35mm film photography — landscapes, travel, portraits — for years. He had an Instagram and a stack of negatives. What he didn't have was a website. So I built him one.
I Built It in a Night. I Didn't Stop There.
StreamNChill started as a one-night experiment. Two weeks later it has Watch Together, a Wrapped Card, Face ID sign-in, Letterboxd import, and a dozen other features. Here's what happened.
My Mom Gave Me an App Idea. I Built It That Night.
My mom mentioned she wished there was a better way to track shows and movies. I told her I'd see what I could come up with. That night I opened Claude Code — and by the time I went to bed, the app was live.
I Built a Drink Tracker App With AI — Here's What Happened
Why I couldn't find an app that tracked drinks the way I wanted, how I used Claude to build one in a single afternoon, and what it actually does — barcode scanning, standard drink math, weekly goals, and your data staying yours.
Tornadoes, Soul Food, and the Edge of America
Our spring break road trip to Folly Beach, SC — starting with a tornado warning inside a 300-year-old Moravian building, soul food where George Washington ate dinner in 1791, and a beach that calls itself the Edge of America like it means it.
Uncle Robbie's Picks: Building a Sports App in 24 Hours
What happens when a non-developer, his brother-in-law, and an AI spend 24 hours building a live MLB prop bet app — with real sportsbook odds, cloud deployment, and three failed builds before it went live.
Building My Mom's Law Firm Website with AI
How I used Claude Code to build a professional website for my mother's 44-year estate planning practice — complete with SEO, schema markup, and AI-optimized content — with zero coding experience.
I Have a Genie and His Name is Claude
How I used AI to build an interactive year-in-review presentation for my Chamber speech — with zero coding experience — and what happened when I tried to let AI write the speech itself.
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