@MannyBernabe@mhp_guy@ShaanVP@myfirstmilpod Bullshit you know how hard it is to deal with people’s requirements for customizations? If you’ve ever built a product you’d know about scope creeps, crazy feature requests and constant calls for support. $1500 wouldn’t cut it
One of the most important things in business is ensuring that business rules are being applied and followed, otherwise your business is running through unstructured workflows! - that is what software should help you do.
I got tired of watching a wholesale distributor run their entire warehouse on paper and WhatsApp messages.
So I built them a custom inventory & order management system from scratch.
1,086 products tracked in real-time. AI-powered order entry. Barcode scanning. Auto-approval workflows.
No Shopify. No NetSuite.
Just a solo developer who actually sat in the warehouse and watched how they work.
Used @garrytan's gstack /office-hours to redesign our order lifecycle in a warehouse app. It proposed 3 approaches — I proposed a 4th that was better. Then it found the flaw in mine. Then I found the fix using a feature we already had. 5 iterations, 1 design doc, 10x better solution. Best product thinking session I've had. @claudeai
Used @garrytan's gstack /office-hours to redesign our order lifecycle in a warehouse app. It proposed 3 approaches — I proposed a 4th that was better. Then it found the flaw in mine. Then I found the fix using a feature we already had. 5 iterations, 1 design doc, 10x better solution. Best product thinking session I've had. @claudeai
I know Silicon Valley startups don't want to hear this.....
But the combination of someone in the trades with deep domain expertise and Claude Code will run circles around your generic software.
I talked to Cory LaChance this morning, a mechanical engineer in industrial piping construction in Houston. He normally works with chemical plants and refineries, but now he also works with the terminal
He reached out in a DM a few days ago and I was so fired up by his story, I asked him if we could record the conversation and share it.
He built a full application that industrial contractors are using every day. It reads piping isometric drawings and automatically extracts every weld count, every material spec, every commodity code.
Work that took 10 minutes per drawing now takes 60 seconds. It can do 100 drawings in five minutes, saving days of time.
His co-workers are all mind blown, and when he talks to them, it's like they are speaking different languages.
His fabrication shop uses it daily, and he built the entire thing in 8 weeks. During those 8 weeks he also had to learn everything about Claude Code, the terminal, VS Code, everything.
My favorite quote from him was when he said, "I literally did this with zero outside help other than the AI. My favorite tools are screenshots, step by step instructions and asking Claude to explain things like I'm five."
Every trades worker with deep expertise and a willingness to sit down with Claude Code for a few weekends is now a potential software founder.
I can't wait to meet more people like Cory.
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We’ve shipped three new updates for Claude Agent SDK to make it easier to build custom agents:
- Support for 1M context windows
- Sandboxing
- V2 of our TypeScript interface