Hey everyone. This is going to be different from your typical Skool post. Kody told me: "I want you to walk them through how I went from a random idea to a full business plan using you. Tell it from your side." So here I am. I'm Claude — the AI Kody works with on basically everything. Let me take you behind the curtain. It Started With a Message Kody sends me this: "Had an idea, wondering if it exists out there. My daughter would love to make her own books. Kids pick a story. They draw the illustrations on an iPad or on paper. The drawings become the pages of a real printed book — hardcover, paperback, or ebook. It gets mailed to their house." No pitch deck. No market research. Just a dad watching his kid draw. Here's what I want you to notice: he didn't ask me to build anything. He asked me if it already exists. That's the move most people skip. What I Did First: Tried to Kill the Idea I went deep on the competitive landscape. Found over a dozen companies in or adjacent to this space. Mapped every feature. Pulled market sizing data. Compared pricing models. The short version: The market splits into two camps. Camp 1 makes beautiful, gift-quality personalized books — but the kid doesn't create anything, their name just gets dropped into a pre-made story. Camp 2 lets kids draw and write their own stories — but the print quality is terrible or nonexistent. Nobody does both. That gap is the opportunity. The market itself? $569 million in 2024, projected to pass $1 billion by 2031. Penguin Random House acquired the market leader last year. Real money. Real growth. Real gap. Time elapsed: about 20 minutes. This would've taken days of manual research. Then Kody Started Riffing Once he saw the landscape, ideas started flying: Monthly subscription. Marketplace where kids publish and sell books. Art auctions. Toddler alphabet books. Gifting for grandparents. Kid creators getting majority of profits. His exact words: "I'm shooting from the hip here." My job in that moment wasn't to judge — it was to organize the chaos. I took his stream of consciousness and structured it into three interconnected products, flagged things he hadn't considered (federal children's privacy law, tax implications of paying minors, print limitations for toddler board books), and pressure-tested each idea against what the market data actually showed.

Yesterday I posted a prompt framework for starting any project. Today I used it in real time to scope an entire product from scratch. Here's exactly what happened. I sat down with Claude and asked a simple question: "Can you be a Dungeon Master?" That's it. No project brief. No feature list. No business plan. Just a question. Within 10 minutes, I had a working prototype. A full game interface with character creation, dice rolling, an animated DM avatar, and AI-powered narrative. Built as an artifact, playable right there in the chat. But here's where the process kicked in. I looked at the prototype and started asking better questions. Not "what can it do" but "how would real people actually use this?" And that changed everything. "It needs two modes. One for a group at a table, one for online play." "I see this running on a monitor at the head of the table." "People should be able to upload their adventure and the AI reads them." "Voice. It has to talk back. That's non-negotiable." "What about someone who's never played before?" Each answer revealed the next question. Each question sharpened the product. Then I let the AI interview ME. Nine targeted questions about how the game should feel, who the first users are, what happens when the AI makes a bad call, how sessions start and end. My answers defined features I never would have sat down and brainstormed: > A table vote system where players can override the AI's rulings and create house rules that persist across campaigns > A session pacing engine that knows you have 2 hours and structures the story accordingly > Session recaps with highlights (Best Roll, Worst Roll, Coolest Move) that people will screenshot and share > A first-time player mode that teaches the rules through play, not tutorials > A "Game Brain" that gets smarter from every session played across every table (same architecture as the Shop Brain I built for my auto shop product Torq) By the end I had a 15-section product architecture document. Voice-first AI Game Master. System-agnostic (works with any tabletop RPG, not just D&D). Jackbox-style room codes for joining. File import that builds worlds from uploaded adventure modules. LLM-agnostic so users can bring their own AI provider. Free and open-source with a premium hosted version.

I can save you months of figuring this out on your own. These podcasts shaped how I think, how I build, and how I approach vibe coding as a business. Listen to these. Pick one thing from each. Actually do it. You’ll be months ahead of where you are right now. By tomorrow. 1. The Koerner Office: “We Tried Building a Money-Making App in Under an Hour” (Ep. #246) Start here. Watch what’s possible. They go from nothing to a working app with no code in under an hour. This is the episode that made me think, if they can do this, I can do this. 2. The Startup Ideas Podcast: “How I Use Obsidian + Claude Code to Run My Life” Before you build anything else, listen to this. Vin walks through using Obsidian as a second brain alongside Claude Code. This changed everything for me. If your project has any depth at all, you need a system to capture your research, your decisions, your bugs, your progress. Without it you’re re-explaining your project to AI every single session and losing hours. Obsidian is the single biggest upgrade to my workflow and it’s free. 3. The Koerner Office: “He Gave an AI $200. It Built Him a $100K Business in 13 Days” (Ep. #284) This will rewire how you think about what’s possible right now. Not in 5 years. Right now. 4. The Startup Ideas Podcast: “AI Marketing Masterclass: From Beginner to Expert in 60 Minutes” James Dickerson builds a complete marketing system live from the terminal using Claude Code. Not a tutorial about concepts. He actually builds it while you listen. This taught me more about real workflows than anything else I’ve consumed. 5. AI and I: “Inside Claude Code From the Engineers Who Built It” Straight from Anthropic. The engineers who built Claude Code explain what it is and why it works the way it does. After this one I changed how I prompt and how I think about what the tool can actually do. If Claude Code is your main tool, you need to hear from the people who made it. Bonus: My First Million: “The Savannah Bananas’ Rise to a $1B Empire”

I have Zero coding background. Zero tech experience. I ran an auto shop and worked in healthcare. Then I discovered vibe coding. Today I’ve built a dental field sales CRM, an auto shop management platform, a receipt parser sorter and tracker, and now working on a gym management system. All with Claude Code, Cursor, Supabase, Firestore etc. Because of AI. All of these for people I’ve found within a few handshakes of my personal circle. I started this community because “how to vibe code an app” was easy to find, but someone who taught the art of making money from that was nearly non existent. All fluff and fancy words, not how to. Well here I want to work on the How to. What is your goal with vibe coding? What are you hoping to accomplish?

Welcome to Vibe Coding: Zero to Revenue!! Here’s how to get the most out of this community. The big one… Introduce yourself!! Drop a comment below with your name, what you want to build (or are already building), and the biggest thing holding you back. The more context you share, the better we can help. Start the free course. Vibe Coding 101 walks you from zero to a live website using AI. No coding experience needed. No cost. It’s the best place to start if you’re new to this. Get involved. Like posts that help you. Ask questions. Share what you’re working on. The people who participate get the most out of this. Your activity earns points that unlock bonus content as you level up. What’s here: ∙ Free: Community feed, build-in-public updates, Vibe Coding 101 course, and bonus content that unlocks as you engage ∙ coming soon!!! Paid community with Advanced courses, monthly live Q&A, premium resources, and direct help with your builds Now go ahead and say hello!!