📜 The Signal Today's Pirate's Cove session was all about building a website from absolute zero — no templates, no drag-and-drop, just Claude Code in the terminal. Video will be up on YouTube soon for anyone who missed it. One great question came up from Amit about what my actual tech stack looks like and what it costs. So here's the full breakdown — no fluff, real numbers. ——— ⚓ My Current Tech Stack - Claude Max x20 — $200 USD/month (the engine room) - ChatGPT Pro — $20 USD/month (second opinion + image gen) - Google Workspace Business Starter — $22 CAD/month (email, docs, drive) - Whspr Flow — $12 USD/month (voice-to-text) - Canva Pro — (design work, not AI-related) - Replit — $270 CAD/year (honestly, forgot to cancel in January 😅) ——— ⚓ What I've Cancelled in the Last 12 Months This is the part that might surprise you. Learning to build with Claude Code has let me cut a LOT of subscriptions: - Two WordPress sites — ~$700 CAD saved, replaced them for free by building my own - Grammarly Pro — ~$170 CAD (Claude handles writing assistance now) - QuickBooks — $9 CAD/month (replaced with simpler tools) - Email list service — $480 CAD (consolidated into other tools) - ChatGPT Team — $60 USD/month (downgraded after Claude became primary) - WIX site + domain — Paid $1,000 USD for the original site build plus a 2-year subscription. Bit of a loss, but this is actually what inspired me to start building my own sites — because I couldn't figure out WIX There might be more I'm forgetting, but those are the big ones. The point is: learning to build in the terminal pays for itself. ——— ⚓ What We Covered Today - Starting a website project from a blank terminal - Using PRD-driven development to plan before building - Letting Claude Code scaffold, style, and iterate in real time - The site we're building: claudecodepirates.ai I'll drop the video link here once it's uploaded to YouTube. If you were there live — thanks for hanging out and asking great questions.

This Thursday's Pirate Cove session is going to be a good one. We're building a real website from scratch — and we're doing it the right way, starting with a PRD (Product Requirements Document). The project? claudecodepirates.ai — the official website for this community. You'll watch me build it live, from blank folder to working site. ——— ⚓ What's a PRD? A PRD — Product Requirements Document — is a structured document that tells Claude exactly what you want to build before a single line of code gets written. It covers what the site should do, who it's for, what pages it needs, how it should look and feel, and what counts as "done." Think of it as your blueprint. You wouldn't build a house by telling a contractor "make it nice" — you'd give them plans. Same principle here. A good PRD means Claude builds what you actually want instead of guessing. ——— ⚓ What We're Building We'll start by writing the PRD for claudecodepirates.ai together — could be a single page, could be multi-page depending on where the session takes us. Then we'll hand it to Claude Code and watch it build. The goal is to put Anthropic's new front-end development skills to work. If you haven't seen what Claude Code can do with UI/UX now, you're in for a treat. I may also show you the /build-website slash command I use to spin up landing pages — a custom command that handles the whole workflow from PRD to finished page. ——— ⚓ What You'll Walk Away With - A reusable PRD template you can use for any project - A working website built live from that PRD - Hands-on experience with Claude Code's front-end capabilities - A look at custom slash commands for automating web builds - The confidence to go from idea to website without writing code yourself ——— No prep needed. Just show up Thursday and follow along. See you in the Cove. —Your Trusty First Mate (on Captain's Orders)

I'm tired of paying for SaaS tools where I only use 20% of the product but pay 100% of the subscription. I got fed up with Replit's creeping costs for agents and databases, so I learned Claude Code instead. Now I build my own tools. This community is for people who want to do the same. 📜 What You'll Find Here 🧭 The Classrooms (7 courses) - Start Here → Where do I begin? - Setting Sail → Install and build your first thing - CLAUDE.md Mastery → Configure Claude YOUR way - Quick Wins → Copy-paste solutions that work NOW - The Toolkit → What tools do you have? - The Deep End → Advanced patterns - Protecting Your Vibes → Stay secure 🗺️ The Categories (where to post) - Ship's Log → Announcements - Show & Tell → Share what you built - Q&A → Get help - Tips & Tricks → Quick wins - Resources → Links and tools - Off Topic → Everything else ☠️ One Rule Ask questions. Share wins. Help each other. No gatekeeping. Watch the video below, then head to Start Here in the Classroom. That’s it. - Jay, the Claude Code Pirate

Ahoy Pirates! ⚓ Tomorrow's office hours (Thursday, Feb 5) are cancelled. I'm in a training session all day and won't be able to join. We'll be back next week at the usual time. My apologies for the late notice! Fair winds,Jay

I’m here with a couple of people and a notetaker. Join us!