I built my first product with Claude this week.

I've been playing around with Claude for a while, optimising workflows, supercharging a recent discovery sprint. But this week I actually shipped something.

A simple idea capture tool for Mac. I used to use Things 3, and whilst the app structure never quite worked for me, I loved the quick capture feature. Keyboard shortcut, text input, thought saved. I've tried everything since: Apple Shortcuts to Reminders, Quick Notes, third-party apps. Nothing matched how I actually work.

So I built my own.

It's written in Swift, a language I've never touched before. I've been following development best practices as far as I remember them, pushing to a GitHub repo, branching for new features. Notes save as JSON that my ICM workspace can action, The whole thing was built with Claude.

I haven't thought about anything else all weekend.  Scope creep is real. It now has optional task types, a menu bar drop down with sync status, a live list of recent captures, inline editing, tagging.

I drafted the initial design in Figma, then went back and forth between VS Code and Figma, designing where I needed to, tweaking code where I needed to.

As a designer, syntax was always the wall between having an idea and building it. But working in a real codebase, you're closer to the actual product. It allows a level of finesse you can't achieve in Figma. Refining a micro interaction, adjusting an animation timing, polishing subtle UI details.

I am very excited to make progress with my ICM workspace build out, lots of product ideas to be built!

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I built my first product with Claude this week.