From over $200 to $10 and hundreds of hours to one. My first big AI win!

May 13 (edited) • 🏆 Wins

I canceled a blog I was doing for fun a few years ago because I felt like the cost to keep it up with Squarespace wasn’t worth it. I didn’t know how to build a website and it took me weeks of tinkering in their platform to get it where I liked it.

Jump to yesterday. After last weeks competition and learning to use GitHub for the first time, it occurred to me that maybe I can drive a website from a repo for just the cost of the domain. Claude quickly confirmed this and gave me a plan. I signed up for cloudfare, registered the domain and made my new repo. I exported the old website visuals and content and fed it into Claude design to build a full brand package. I took this into vs code and got to work with Claude.

After some quick back and forth, the website was live. All of this took under 1 hour. I never wrote a single line of code or touched the website. All of my posts, images and assets were moved over. The result is more polished than my original site was that took 100x the time.

The best part is now if I want to push an update I hop onto my desktop or my phone and pull up Claude and ask for what I want to see. The repo is pushed and cloudfare registers the new build within a minute. This is so helpful for allowing me to focus on what really matters which is the content. I can do my writing and let Claude handle the rest. I know this is all possible and really entry level stuff and I am still mind blown.

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From over $200 to $10 and hundreds of hours to one. My first big AI win!