The workflow that built the best apps I've seen this year:
THE SETUP
1. Make Claude your co-founder first. Before writing a single line of code, have a conversation. Describe what you're building like you're explaining it to a smart friend. Let it ask questions. Poke holes in your idea together.
2. Get the PRD before the code. Ask Claude to write a product requirements doc based on your conversation. Features, user flows, edge cases, technical decisions. This alone saves you 10 hours of refactoring.
3. Design system checkpoint. Before implementation: "What design system makes sense here? Give me the color palette, typography, and spacing tokens." This prevents the Frankenstein UI where every screen looks like a different app.
4. Implementation checklist. Ask for a numbered build order. What gets built first, what depends on what. Claude thinks through the architecture so you don't paint yourself into corners.
THE BUILD
5. One thing at a time. "Add auth, then build the dashboard, then connect Stripe" = disaster. "Let's implement email/password auth. Show me the file structure first before writing code." = clean.
6. Ask for the plan before the execution. Before any major feature: "Walk me through how you'd approach this. What files need to change?" This catches bad architecture before it ships.
7. Reference what exists. "Update the user profile component we built earlier to include..." Not: "Build a user profile component." Claude loses context fast. Remind it what's already there. Name the files. Paste snippets if needed.
8. Checkpoint after every feature. "Before we move on, let's make sure auth is working. What should I test?" Don't stack features on broken foundations. Ask for a manual QA checklist.
9. When something breaks, isolate it. "This specific function returns undefined. Here's the input and expected output. What's wrong?" Not: "It's not working, fix it." Precision in, precision out.
THE DESIGN
10. Steal from the best, explicitly. "I want the dashboard to feel like Linear meets Notion. Clean, minimal, lots of whitespace, subtle animations on hover." References beat adjectives. "Modern and clean" means nothing. "Like Stripe's dashboard" means everything.
11. Lock in the design system early. "Before building any UI, give me: primary color, secondary, accent, background, text colors, border radius, spacing scale, and font stack." Make Claude commit to tokens. Then enforce them.
12. One component, fully styled, first. "Build me just the button component with all variants: primary, secondary, ghost, destructive. Include hover, active, disabled states." If the button looks good, the app will look good.
13. Demand whitespace. "Add more padding. More margin between sections. I want this to breathe." AI defaults to cramped. Push back constantly.
14. Animation as personality. "Add a subtle scale and opacity transition when cards appear. 200ms ease-out." Small motion = premium feel. No motion = dead interface.
THE DEBUG
15. Screenshot over description. When UI looks wrong, screenshot it. "This is what I'm seeing. The button should be aligned right, not centered." Claude can't see your screen. Show it.
16. Console first, always. "Here's the exact error from the console" beats "it's broken" every single time. Copy paste the full error. Include the stack trace.
17. Isolate before you escalate. Something broke after adding a feature? "Let's comment out the new code and confirm the old flow still works." Confirm where the break actually is.
18. Rubber duck it. "Explain what this function is supposed to do step by step. I'll tell you where my understanding breaks." Sometimes the bug is in your mental model, not the code.
@zeeg If you a find a fix to finder please let me know I am about to throw my macbook out the window cause it returns 0 search results for "bunny" in a folder with 800+ bunny files
I’m not exaggerating, I hear from so many big software cos which don’t use Claude Code/Codex.
CTOs are asleep at the wheel. Engineers are typing code by hand. Fixing a bug a day. Like it’s 2024.
If youre at these cos, demand change or leave. Now. You’re in for a rude awakening.
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Swipe. match. talk. ghost. repeat.
You're not finding different people, you're finding the same person in different fonts 💀
What if there was a way to break the pattern before you match? Something's coming that actually gets it!
Delulu Check, launching this week!
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Your brain releases dopamine at the notification sound. Not the message itself. The anticipation is the drug.
New from Delulu Check; We looked at the actual neuroscience of what happens when you're waiting for a text back. turns out your phone has hijacked your nervous system and you didn't even notice.
The facts:
→ the typing indicator triggers a literal threat response in your amygdala
→ read receipts double your texting anxiety (study-backed)
→ you check their message within 7 seconds. everyone else gets 3 minutes
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Every slide has the research to back it up. this isn't opinion, it's what your brain is actually doing.
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You can now push what you’re building in Claude Code directly into Figma.
With the latest updates to the Figma MCP server, build a working prototype in code, then send it to a Figma canvas to explore multiple versions.
I wanted to build a video editor into X like other social apps. I had expected it to take 3 months of engineering time.
Today I decided to try prototyping it myself. I one-shotted a full in-browser editor in 15 minutes.
It felt like I could replace the entire Adobe software suite by Sunday.
Then I asked myself: will videos even be edited manually in 3 months? Chatbots can do reasonably well now.
Product development is getting extraordinarily difficult when the world is changing so fast.
most people will install clawd and accidentally hand it their entire life
it’s incredible: a 24/7 ai agent on your server that controls your github, calendar, and email via whatsapp/telegram
but stop and think for a second
you just gave an ai autonomous execution rights on your machine and root access to your digital life
if you run this with default settings, you are one prompt injection away from wiping your entire github organization, losing your emails or much worse
before you connect it to anything, you need to lock it down to make sure you and your digital life are secure
here is the non-negotiable security config for clawd: 👇