Sr. UX Designer @ADP by day. Building multiple products with AI by night. I help businesses build custom software at a fraction of agency cost. Let's talk →
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I built a product that would have cost $250K with a traditional agency.
It took me a couple weeks. Not months. Not a massive team.
Here's exactly how (and why it matters for your business):
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The product: Archa Flow — a full project management platform for architecture firms.
Complex dashboards. Client portals. Project timelines. Document management. The whole thing.
An agency would quote this at $300-400K and 12+ months.
I did it differently.
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Step 1: I designed every screen in Figma FIRST.
Not wireframes. Not rough sketches. Full, detailed UI.
This is the step most people skip. They jump straight to code and wonder why they rebuild 3 times.
Design is the blueprint. Without it, you're building blind.
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Step 2: I used AI tools to build what I designed.
Claude Code turned my Figma designs into a working product.
Not a prototype. Not a demo. A real, functional application.
Because I knew exactly what I wanted (from the designs), the AI could execute precisely.
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Step 3: I applied years of startup experience to every decision.
I've been through multiple startups. I've managed dev teams globally. I've shipped products from zero.
Knowing the full path — idea to design to development to marketing — means no wasted steps.
Every decision was intentional.
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Why this matters for YOUR business:
The economics of building software have fundamentally changed.
→ Custom tools that automate your manual processes
→ Internal software that saves your team hours/week
→ Customer-facing products that generate revenue
All of this is now 10x faster and a fraction of the old cost.
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The old way: Hire an agency. $250K. 6-9 months. Hope they understand your vision.
The new way: Work with someone who designs, builds with AI, and ships end-to-end. Weeks, not months. A fraction of the cost.
This isn't theoretical. I'm living proof.
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I'm now doing this for other businesses.
If you have an idea for a tool, app, or platform — or you're bleeding money on manual processes that should be automated:
DM me. I'll tell you honestly if I can help and what it would take.
Follow @[your_handle] for more builds like this.
I couldn't figure out why @poteto's pstack makes AI coding agents so much better.
So I took it apart, file by file, and rebuilt it as an interactive guide anyone can follow.
Explained with a potato. 🥔
Link below 👇
Lauren's big idea: verification. If an agent can't check its own work, you become the bottleneck.
Her upside-down pyramid for trusting AI work:
1. Fix the codebase
2. Automatic checks
3. Written rules
4. Human review (least)
Why I built it: I want my own design-first "factory" on top of pstack, and I needed to really get it first.
Free, unofficial, no signup. All credit to @poteto for pstack.
pstack-peeled.vercel.app
It's incredible to think that one man @elonmusk propelled the human race by 100's of years technologically. It's incredible to be alive at the same time as him.
Who's running the government, lol? The government making an arcade site wasn't on my bingo card.
whitehouse.gov/arcade/
This is an insane move! Having the best model available to do a task is going to change the game. I think this is a brilliant move from the @bot team.
