3 Weeks of Building

It feels like it's faster to build the apps than to document building the apps.

Most of these apps I built in a day. Some of the little ones were less than an hour...just one or two prompts.

I procrastinated on making this website because I keep wanting to make the work a bit better before sharing. Even though I always intended to share work in progress as part of this project. Most of the features work, but I would consider the current design to be 'wire-frame'.

I've learned a lot about developing on MacOS. I read most of what Claude writes when it builds a feature, so I maintain a general understanding of how everything works. Architecting is still the challenge, and a good amount of that depends on my preferences for UX. It is possible that I'll re-build just the parts I like after my opinion on how everything interacts together evolves.

So, 3 week benchmark. 12 apps. I'm still on the $20/month Claude subscription. I do my own visual testing and sometimes write some CSS. I don't use subagents, because my code base is fairly simple and I found that overcomplicated tasks. I've learned some tricks: refining the Claude.md file impacts the work a lot more than prompts, and it prefers looking at an example over reading more docs.

Now I want to be refining what I've built instead of generating more apps. Although I also want to test some more weird ideas and ideas more relating to the real world, not just working on my computer. Ironically, working too much is a problem. I have better ideas when I've had a restful weekend, and I want my tools to reflect that.