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22 posts tagged devlog.
Building a Travel Power Adapter Tool with Claude in a Weekend
How I turned leftover destination data into a 221-country power adapter finder with plug types and voltage comparison. The first version was unusable.
Building a Layover Calculator That Knows Every Terminal at JFK
How I built a connection time calculator covering 70 airports with pairwise terminal transfers, customs buffers, and a five-factor assessment algorithm, then spent half the day fixing dark mode.
I Let Claude Design My Homepage Hero and Shipped What It Built
I gave Claude Design six 'decide for me' answers and it came back with a three-layer canvas flight animation. Two concepts, one conversation, and the whole thing is live on my homepage now.
Building a Checked Bag Fee Calculator Widget That Actually Computes
Framework-free fee calculator widget. Overweight surcharges, third-bag estimates, 75+ airlines sorted by total cost, all inside an iframe.
I Built a Free Embeddable Carry-On Size Widget for Travel Blogs
A free, no-cookies carry-on size checker any travel blog can embed with a short HTML snippet. 75+ airlines, auto-updating data, full theme customization.
How to Set Up a Claude Code Statusline (Step-by-Step With /statusline)
Set up a custom Claude Code statusline in 60 seconds with /statusline. Show your /usage, /context, 5-hour reset time, and working directory as colored progress bars in every prompt. Full bash script included.
I Built a Dead Simple App Because Claude Code Couldn't Hear Me
Claude Code on Bedrock doesn't expose a microphone. I type slowly. So I built an iOS app that transcribes speech and drops it straight to the clipboard.
Building the Carry-On and Personal Item Size Checkers
Two free tools that tell you whether your bag fits a given airline, built on a cited dataset of 50 carriers sourced from official policy pages, orientation-agnostic math, and a single JSON file.
I Built a Media Kit Generator Because a Creator Asked Me To
A content creator needed a media kit PDF. Every tool I found wanted a monthly subscription. So I built one that's free, no signup, and generates a polished one-pager in under 60 seconds.
I Built an API Cost Tracker and Then Couldn't Ship It
BurnRate was supposed to be a unified dashboard for Anthropic and OpenAI spend. It worked great, until I realized the keys it needed could do a lot more than just read.
I Built an SEO Scanner That Actually Checks if AI Can Find You
Lighthouse doesn't check if ChatGPT can crawl your site. So I built ShipReady, an SEO and AEO scanner that audits your site for the age of answer engines.
I Built an AI Trading Bot That Watches Trump's Truth Social Posts
Paper trading worked great. Real markets taught me that latency kills everything.
Building PackSmart: An AI Packing List Generator That Actually Checks the Weather
How I built a free AI-powered packing list tool as part of the Vientapps travel ecosystem, and what I learned about wrangling LLM output into reliable JSON.
Building SumTrails: A Daily Puzzle Game Where the Generator Was the Real Puzzle
I built a daily number-path puzzle game because I wanted one to play. Turns out, generating good puzzles is exponentially harder than solving them.
Why I Moved a Client Site Off an AI Builder and Rebuilt It From Scratch
LandingSite AI got Griffin Renovation online fast, but SEO limits and vendor lock-in pushed me to rebuild the whole thing in plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Building a Website for a 40-Year-Old Hair Salon With Zero Online Presence
A local salon in Smithfield, Utah had been cutting hair for four decades without a website. Here's how I built one from scratch with vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS.
Building Roamly: AI-Powered Group Travel Planning
How I turned the frustration of planning a trip with friends into a full-stack app that uses Claude AI to find destinations everyone can actually agree on.
I Built a Pipeline to Generate YouTube Shorts Programmatically
A TypeScript CLI that takes a script and spits out a finished YouTube Short using Claude, Fal.ai, ElevenLabs, and FFmpeg — no video editor required.
I Built a WoW Addon to Automate My Portal Business
How selling mage portals for gold in WoW Classic led to writing Lua, fighting the minimap API, and learning why Trade chat is a disaster for pattern matching.
I Built a Chrome Extension That Tells Jokes (4,600 People Use It)
How a simple joke extension became a TypeScript learning project, a monetization experiment, and somehow one of the more successful things I've shipped.
I Shipped a Client Site in an Afternoon Using an AI Builder
A renovation company needed a website fast. I used LandingSite.ai to go from nothing to live in a few hours, and here's what actually worked.
I Built Smoke or Fire: A React Native Card Game (That Apple Won't Let You Have)
How a party card game became a React Native + Firebase multiplayer app, the Firebase array normalization problem that almost broke multiplayer, and why the App Store kept saying no.