Start with a problem you can see.
Look at the frustrating, repetitive, or awkward things in your work and life. Your experience is useful context.
THE VERY UNOFFICIAL PROCESS
How I’m making
software so far.
No bootcamp. No secret system. Just a loop that gets a little less confusing every time around.
BEFORE THE BUILD
I don’t come up with the ideas alone.
I lean into my lived experience, career, skills, and education. Then I bring what I have noticed to AI and talk it through. The conversation helps me explore the problem, question my assumptions, and shape a solution I can try.
Use AI to think with you.
You do not need to arrive with the answer. Describe what you see, ask questions, and spitball different ways to help.
Your idea does not have to be original.
Other solutions probably exist. That is fine. The goal is solving the problem in your own useful way.
01 THE LOOP I KEEP USING
From problem
to something real.
I can explain what something should do, test it, break it, change my mind, ask better questions, and keep going. Apparently, that’s a kind of building too.
Notice a problem
Start with something frustrating, inefficient, or harder than it needs to be.
Talk it through with AI
Bring the context. Ask questions. Spitball possibilities. Let the conversation sharpen the idea.
Choose your version
It does not have to be completely original. It has to solve the problem in a useful way.
Build the small thing
Make the smallest version that can show whether your approach actually helps.
Break it
Test it. Find the gaps. Discover all the things you forgot to explain.
Learn. Fix. Repeat.
Useful beats impressive. Progress beats another month of keeping the idea in your head.
02 WHAT THIS ISN’T
This isn’t a “learn to code” website.
Because I don’t know how to code. And I’m not an AI expert either. I’m testing what is possible after spending most of my career solving very human problems.
I’ll share what I use, what I spend, what works, what wastes my time, and what I wish I had known before I started.
THE PROMISE
No six-figure-SaaS-in-30-days nonsense.
No pretending every decision was smart.
No teaching from the finish line.
Just the work, while it’s messy.Ready for the practical notes?