https://josephalotozo.com/blog/ Building things with AI, community notes, family trips, and life in Upper Arlington, Ohio. en-us Copyright 2026 Joseph A. Lotozo Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:48:54 +0000 https://josephalotozo.com/blog/helping-classmate-dosa-rush.html https://josephalotozo.com/blog/helping-classmate-dosa-rush.html Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A classmate in my MBA program is building a dosa food truck. Here's how I used a little tech and a lot of community to help him get noticed — a spotlight, social reach, and an introduction to my Columbus networking group. https://josephalotozo.com/blog/building-wpmba-council-website.html https://josephalotozo.com/blog/building-wpmba-council-website.html Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 How Joe Lotozo used Claude Code to build a website for the Ohio State Fisher Working Professional MBA Student Council — in an afternoon, with zero coding experience. https://josephalotozo.com/blog/building-pats-endoflife-website.html https://josephalotozo.com/blog/building-pats-endoflife-website.html Tue, 12 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Pat Dodge was our doula for three births. Now she's an end-of-life midwife — and I used Claude Code to build her a website in about three hours. https://josephalotozo.com/blog/aunt-jane-cancer-trial-compass.html https://josephalotozo.com/blog/aunt-jane-cancer-trial-compass.html Tue, 05 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 How my aunt Jane's idea for a cancer clinical trial finder became Cancer Trial Compass, an AI-assisted app built with ChatGPT Codex, React, Firebase, and ClinicalTrials.gov data. https://josephalotozo.com/blog/building-toms-photo-site.html https://josephalotozo.com/blog/building-toms-photo-site.html Tue, 05 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 My brother Tom has been shooting 35mm film photography for years — landscapes, travel, portraits. He had an Instagram and a stack of negatives. What he didn't have was a website. So I built him one. https://josephalotozo.com/blog/streamnchill-update.html https://josephalotozo.com/blog/streamnchill-update.html Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 StreamNChill started as a one-night experiment. Two weeks later it has Watch Together, a Wrapped Card, Face ID sign-in, and a dozen other features. Here's what happened. https://josephalotozo.com/blog/streamnchill.html https://josephalotozo.com/blog/streamnchill.html Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 How a casual suggestion from my mom turned into a full AI-powered streaming tracker — built overnight with Claude Code, no developer required. https://josephalotozo.com/blog/sip-tracker.html https://josephalotozo.com/blog/sip-tracker.html Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 How Joe Lotozo used Claude to build Sip Tracker — a personal drink and calorie logging app — with no coding background and a single afternoon. https://josephalotozo.com/blog/folly-beach-spring-break-2026.html https://josephalotozo.com/blog/folly-beach-spring-break-2026.html Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Our spring break road trip to Folly Beach, SC — with a tornado warning in a 300-year-old Moravian building, soul food where George Washington ate, jellyfish at the pier, and a country deli that surprised us on the way home. https://josephalotozo.com/blog/uncle-robbies-picks.html https://josephalotozo.com/blog/uncle-robbies-picks.html Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000 What happens when a non-developer, his brother-in-law, and an AI spend 24 hours trying to build a live MLB prop bet app from scratch. A story about curiosity, debugging, and deploying something real. https://josephalotozo.com/blog/building-moms-law-website.html https://josephalotozo.com/blog/building-moms-law-website.html Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000 How Joe Lotozo used Claude Code to build a professional website for his mother's estate planning law practice — with zero coding experience and zero budget. https://josephalotozo.com/blog/ai-chamber-wrapped.html https://josephalotozo.com/blog/ai-chamber-wrapped.html Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000 How Joe Lotozo used Claude Code and AI to build an interactive Chamber Wrapped presentation with zero coding experience — and why the speech itself had to be his own.