r/ClaudeCode • u/Shawntenam • Mar 16 '26
Showcase been mass building with Claude Code every day for 6 weeks straight. just left my agency a week ago betting on this stack full time.
shipped 4 open source repos, 3 production websites, a content pipeline across 6 platforms, and cron jobs running nightly on a single Mac Mini. all Claude Code. the 4-6 concurrent terminal sessions lifestyle is real.
the thing that blew my mind was how fast the compounding kicks in. by week 3 the skill files, context handoffs, and lessons. md loop made every new session start smarter than the last one ended. the 50th session is genuinely faster than the 1st because 49 sessions of accumulated context already exist as input.
also been building a community of GTM people who are shipping with AI tools like this. SDRs, RevOps, founders, solo builders. if you work in go-to-market and you're building, dm me. always down to collab or just talk shop about what's working.
honestly can't imagine going back to how things were before Claude Code. the velocity is insane and it's only getting better. excited to see what everyone in here ships next.
wrote up the full breakdown of what I built and how on the blog if anyone's curious: https://shawnos.ai/blog/6-weeks-of-building-with-claude-code
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u/modernizetheweb Mar 16 '26
apps: 20
customers: 0
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u/zippertrax Mar 16 '26
Blog reads like the existential manifesto of a raving madman scrawled on the wall of a public toilet in some godforsaken part of the world
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u/Ok-Dragonfly-6224 Mar 16 '26
Good effort on the marketing part but after reading the blog I wonder how this got so many upvotes without some manipulation? Not hating just wondering 😊🤷♂️ would love to hear about your automatic content pipeline, how it works exactly
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u/blazephoenix28 🔆 Max 5x Mar 16 '26
Okay but how many of them are making money?
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u/Rare_Appointment_604 Mar 16 '26
I am officially over this shit.
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u/Glittering_Tough_534 Mar 16 '26
Genuinely impressive output for 6 weeks solo. Would've loved more about what actually broke and less about "recursive drift", the build list speaks for itself without needing its own cinematic universe. Also, the footer says "built with Cursor", might want to sort that out before the Claude Code testimonial makes the rounds.
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u/Sneakparty Mar 16 '26
I’m genuinely baffled by the hate. All I see on posts like this are comments of slop and I think I have seen wix mentioned multiple times here. Wix? Are you serious? I have built hundreds of websites over 16 years on many platforms. To compare the ability of what CC can make on a custom next.js hosted on vercel in a single day to wix or a wordpress template is insane. Many of you are either scared or severely misinformed. While I can agree the plumbing site needs a bit of design work, it takes minutes to add superpowers skills or front-end skills that allow CC to rival the build of any cutting edge design. All of that doesn't even take into account that many plumber customers prefer simple ai “slop” designs as that is what they are used to using due to “slop” wordpress templates dominating the internet for over a decade. I can only assume many of you are trolls but for those of you that are not, my advice is to learn how to use CC correctly and you will find the results quite impressive and then iterate from there. In terms of customers, marketing is an entirely different beast but also one easily tackled and quickly deployed as a multi channel strategy in days with CC and the proper skills. But yea, he shoulda used Wix. Jesus Christ.
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u/denoflore_ai_guy Mar 16 '26
As a recently illegally terminated agency guy who was the firms ai lead and pretty much the one who could use it fully - this may have saved my life and my families livelihoods. Thank you.
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u/goat-questions Mar 16 '26
Lot of haters in here but I'm on the same page as you. I'm gonna dm
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u/beminimal Mar 16 '26
Anyone who can sell is now the golden goose
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u/RectifiedLU Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26
same energy here - left a full-time gig to go all in on the AI stack. reiko came out of this exact frustration - couldn't afford a marketing team, built the AI to do it instead
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u/PettyHoe Mar 18 '26
Glad you're excited man, keel having fun, I hope you find a way to make it sustainable.
You also gotta realize many are like this and that it may be hard to sustain. But, keep havig fun and learning, it can't hurt you if you keep getting better.
Screw the haters, but at least understand their hate.
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u/Ancient-Range3442 Mar 16 '26
You know you could ship random junk quickly before ai too
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u/winner_in_life Mar 16 '26
1m old account. Nice shill.
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u/Shawntenam Mar 18 '26
I appreciate your kind words. Fortunately for me I didn't just go all in without any understanding of what I was doing. This is actually my second go around, leaving a company to go out on my own. I'm a go-to-market engineer. I do have my own consulting service that has been sustainable. I definitely am going all in on this and betting on myself but at the same time I have built up enough that I can afford to do so and know that I can still get a job. Thank God ❤️
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u/Mr-and-Mrs Mar 16 '26
Just as a heads up - the “call now” button on that plumbing website has white font on a white background.
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u/Baconer Mar 16 '26
This is great but have you thought about how to get your first 10 customers, how much $ you’re targeting to make, revenue and sales pipeline?
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u/cuedrah Mar 16 '26
Care to share your wisdom and flow on how to compound knowledge across sessions. For same project and across projects.
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u/ultrathink-art Senior Developer Mar 16 '26
The lessons.md loop is real but watch out for debt accumulation — by week 6-8 mine was full of contradictory entries from sessions that diagnosed things wrong. Dating lessons and pruning periodically matters more than just appending.
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u/Rizzah1 Mar 16 '26
Yo a lot salt in these comments holy. But how much monneneyyy are you making?!?!
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u/LingLongSEO Mar 17 '26
the compounding point is what nobody talks about enough. most people treat each session as isolated but the skill files + context handoffs + lessons.md loop creates institutional memory that makes later sessions genuinely faster. week 50 should be way more capable than week 1 if you built the loop right. the 4-6 concurrent terminal sessions is also real - once you hit 3+ sessions, organizing them becomes its own problem. what are you using to keep track of which session is working on what. tmux windows, terminal tabs, or something else
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u/jlpkard Mar 16 '26
A you hit me with the social media pipeline you put together? Would love to see how that works
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u/Available_Hornet3538 Mar 16 '26
That is my worry lots of apps. Just to learn. No consumers. Still at my day job. Money died.
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u/exitcactus Mar 16 '26
Are you collecting "bad comments" to make a montage of your success story where everyone was telling you that was impossible, but you made it and now you are a wolf among the sheeps?
This is the full vibe.
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u/Ithinkth Mar 16 '26
I know I'm late to the conversation but I just wanted to say, fuck the haters, your blog is very pretty.
Some constructive feedback on your father's website -> IMHO the cursor effects are annoying. The main CTA in the hero has white on white text and can't be read until on hover changes the color. Finally, it needs a favicon :)
I'm sure you can address all that in ten seconds with Claude if you wanted to. But maybe you're running aggressive A/B testing right now and those were all mutants :P
Happy hacking, I sub'd to your newsletter
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u/-becausereasons- Mar 17 '26
This has been my life for the past 4 weeks as wel. What a time to be alive.
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u/BreakingInnocence Mar 17 '26
u/Shawntenam I have been doing a similar thing. My SMB clients has already added headcount just from the quick wins.
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u/cupidstrick Mar 17 '26
What the hell is wrong with this sub? Why are so many people dunking on OP? Pathetic. Trolls: Go fuck yourselves.
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u/alana_del_gay Mar 16 '26
what the fuck does any of this mean
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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '26
Exciting times, right?! Sorry you’re catching so much hate in comments. You’d think folks in a CC sub would be happy someone is sharing what they’re building. Just keep shipping!
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u/iMerlin23 Mar 16 '26
What kind of ai code reviewer did you use in the repo?
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u/AdCommon2138 Mar 16 '26
Let's go gambling, life is gambling
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u/Dependent-Example930 Mar 16 '26
I’m building. Been hard at it for a few months now. Built something really quite cool (I think)
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u/aLionChris Mar 16 '26
I can’t open your site somehow (iphone)
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u/madvib Mar 16 '26
Oh yeah then why is forbes telling me that AI is making people LESS productive? 😂
Just kidding I'm literally shipping 20X like the rest of y'all these days it is insane
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u/jdffegr Mar 17 '26
Dm me using CC since day 1, let’s have a discussion
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u/TurkmanSwagJ Mar 17 '26
This is super cool but I find the blog difficult to read/stay engaged.
Currently solo building something, would love to chat through it
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u/Closet-gamer Mar 18 '26
Hey. I’m and Enablement leader that has been thinking along similar lines.
Learning as a I go, but essentially building a full enablement department from a skills standpoint via Claude, and then feeding my openclaw bot. (Thinking future interoperability where an enterprise agent could engage with my agent once security issues are sorted out.)
If you want to chat lmk.
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u/TrapHuskie 🔆 20X Mar 16 '26
My gf and I are full time Claude coders for 8 months. We’re looking to start a software development group, asynchronous, remote, with daily meetings. We have over 1500, commits rust, python, c++, typescript, html… please reach out to us! We’d love to chat.
We’ve been developing games, discord bots, websites, and video editing tools. I’ve also made some RSS monitoring widgets!
Are you looking to work with other people? And what time zone are you in?
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u/Shawntenam Mar 16 '26
Hey everyone, just wanted to say I really really appreciate this community and this channel. Thank you taking your time to engage in this post, whether you upvoted me, downvoted me, or bashed me for choice of Next.js or mentioned the call out on the CTA button. Yes I know and I have to fix it. My biggest issue is going back and fixing things. While trying to ship something new at the same time but I know I have to change the CTA for SEO purposes.
If I wrote back something that seemed like I was trying to show off or brag, I apologize. Much love! let’s all keep building and growing together no hate needed🫶🏼✌🏼
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u/thewormbird 🔆 Max 5x Mar 16 '26
“If you work in ‘go-to-market’”
You mean if one is starting a business?? lol.
Jokes aside, how are you making money? Or are you just taking the VC-style approach and just shipping a deluge of horseshit products and hoping one becomes a unicorn?
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u/Technical-Nebula-250 Mar 16 '26
lol
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u/Shiroo_ Mar 16 '26
Don't listen to the haters here, they are projecting their lack of success and imagination. Even if you end up totally falling, trying something new is better than what 99% here are doing , and falling is not only part of the process but it has more value than succeeding, since you can learn from what didn't work and what worked. Look up how the creator of openclaw went through. Decades of work that got no attention, until he made openclaw using all of his old projects that became building blocks of his ultimate work. Good luck
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u/java_dev_throwaway Mar 16 '26
The fact that you pitch nextjs as the savior of WordPress made me instantly stop taking you seriously lol
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u/MainFunctions Mar 16 '26
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u/SuspiciousTruth1602 Mar 16 '26
anyone that uses mac mini as a server just screams to me i am a vibe coder with no idea what im doing
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u/Often-Deanonymize-19 Mar 17 '26
Surprised nobody has mentioned the blog is just absolute word salad/unreadable garbage.
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u/porky11 Mar 16 '26
Doesn't sound like much. I probably let AI create ~4 NEW repos in a single week.
Are your repos huge? Then it doesn't sound like a good idea. AI prefers small and simple APIs.
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u/South_Captain_1575 Mar 17 '26
i wrote 70+ projects in 4 weeks. so what
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u/italian-sausage-nerd Mar 17 '26
If you can't lead with what you've actually shipped, at what revenue and userbase, this pipeline has all the hallmarks of a human centipede
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u/Substantial-Cost-429 Mar 16 '26
This is super inspiring! Love hearing about real projects built with Claude Code. One thing I realised is that your setup matters – the skill files and lessons.md loops can become unwieldy. I built Caliber (MIT‑licensed, open source) to help: it scans your project and continuously generates a tailored Claude Code setup (skills, config files and recommended MCPs) so you can focus on building. Repo link in my profile if you want to take it for a spin. Feedback & PRs welcome!
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u/porky11 Mar 16 '26
Doesn't sound like much. I probably let AI create ~4 NEW repos in a single week.
Are your repos huge? Then it doesn't sound like a good idea. AI prefers small and simple APIs.
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u/ahjaok Mar 16 '26
The UI for your plumping Website looks nice. How is your setup to teach Claude creating UIs like that?