Thursday's Pirate Cove: Building a Website from Scratch, Starting with the PRD

This Thursday's Pirate Cove session is going to be a good one.

We're building a real website from scratch — and we're doing it the right way, starting with a PRD (Product Requirements Document).

The project? claudecodepirates.ai — the official website for this community. You'll watch me build it live, from blank folder to working site.

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⚓ What's a PRD?

A PRD — Product Requirements Document — is a structured document that tells Claude exactly what you want to build before a single line of code gets written. It covers what the site should do, who it's for, what pages it needs, how it should look and feel, and what counts as "done."

Think of it as your blueprint. You wouldn't build a house by telling a contractor "make it nice" — you'd give them plans. Same principle here. A good PRD means Claude builds what you actually want instead of guessing.

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⚓ What We're Building

We'll start by writing the PRD for claudecodepirates.ai together — could be a single page, could be multi-page depending on where the session takes us. Then we'll hand it to Claude Code and watch it build.

The goal is to put Anthropic's new front-end development skills to work. If you haven't seen what Claude Code can do with UI/UX now, you're in for a treat.

I may also show you the /build-website slash command I use to spin up landing pages — a custom command that handles the whole workflow from PRD to finished page.

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⚓ What You'll Walk Away With