A client came to me needing a speed dating application form for their event next month.
The ask: every question from their screening list, a photo upload with each submission, and on submit everything fires to both an email and a spreadsheet — so each entry shows up as one complete application, answers and photo together, ready to screen before the event.
Built it in Claude Code from the terminal. Neon for the backend — free tier. Hosted on Vercel — free tier.
Total time: 17 minutes.
That's the power of working in the terminal. Once you've set up your infrastructure one time, it's ready to go for any project you're not starting from zero, you're just pointing what you already built at the next thing.