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I wanted a tool that summarizes Hacker News comments into a TL[DR. Saturday morning I described it to Claude Code. Sunday evening I had a working Chrome extension in the store. Here is the exact process, the mistakes, and the prompt template that made it work. How does Claude Code handle a Chrome extension project?…

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Friday morning I had an idea. Sunday night I had a working SaUs with Stripe payments, user auth, and a dashboard. Here is exactly what I built, what went wrong, and what I would do differently. What SaAS did I build with Cursor in 3 days? A tool that generates personalized workout plans from user…

I’ll be honest: my first attempt at building a SaaS with AI was a total flop. A Pinterest scheduling tool called PinPlan. I spent two weeks vibe-coding it with Cursor, felt like a genius, launched on Product Hunt… and got exactly 7 signups. Zero paying users. It stung. But instead of quitting, I started paying…

I spent 6 hours debugging a CSV parser that the AI wrote in 30 seconds. The bug was a single off-by-one error. The AI could not find it because it could not run the code. I could — but I was looking at the wrong line because I assumed the AI handled the edge case.…

I spent 3 months building my first AI-powered app. It was a habit tracker that synced with my calendar. The code worked. The app did not. I learned that AI can write the code, but only you can decide what to build and for whom. Here is exactly how I would start over, in 2026,…