ClaytTheBuilder

NZ indie builder | Agentic engineer | build-in-public | $0 → MRR | LFG!

Currently shipping:
BattleFit ($0)
MortgageReady ($0)
LessTest ($0)

[ClaytTheBuilder @claytthebuilder]

Thursday: Wife and I decide we want to buy a house, sick of renting...Decide to gather information on what we need to approach broker...

💡moment, I'll build out a quick mini app to calculate borrowing power, collect the docs i need..

Open up @cursor_ai , start with the plan...."build out a simple mortgage calculator that will help me understand my current financial position, borrowing power"

[ClaytTheBuilder @claytthebuilder]

One thing i really love about @grok app, is not how good 4.20 is (which it is, it's my daily driver for general and research), it's that, it's not a memory hog like the claude and openai apps are. Consistently sits less than 400mb memory usage.

At Idle
Claude: 2.35GB
Grok: 323MB

Understandably claude has chat, cowork, code all within the same app, makes sense...but sometimes i just want the chat functionality.

[ClaytTheBuilder @claytthebuilder]

Moral of the story: What started as a super simple thought to make my life easier, turned into a product that is beneficial for both buyers, and brokers.

Buyers pay $39 one-off for the comprehensive report
Brokers pay $99p/m for the portal

5 day build! #mrr #BuildInPublic

[ClaytTheBuilder @claytthebuilder]

Thursday: Wife and I decide we want to buy a house, sick of renting...Decide to gather information on what we need to approach broker...

💡moment, I'll build out a quick mini app to calculate borrowing power, collect the docs i need..

Open up @cursor_ai , start with the plan...."build out a simple mortgage calculator that will help me understand my current financial position, borrowing power"

[ClaytTheBuilder @claytthebuilder]

Tuesday morning:

Broker: "Here is your pre-approval letter from the lenders, you are good to put in an offer"

Tuesday afternoon:

✅Built broker portal and paywalled.
✅ Offered to my broker
✅ Signed him up for $99 per month.

[ClaytTheBuilder @claytthebuilder]

@damnGruz 🤣🤣

[ClaytTheBuilder @claytthebuilder]

@pcshipp VPS - Always up, isolated from your home network, cheaper than a standalone device, scalable, more secure.

Locally - good to test out different configurations, you have a gui by default

I always test things locally, then once i'm happy, send to VPS.

[ClaytTheBuilder @claytthebuilder]

A pet peeve of mine using Claude code in the terminal is not being able to move the cursor with the mouse. Not even the Option + click action works... using arrow keys to make adjustments to the prompt is one of those pains in the arse, that happens at least 10-20 times a day.

@cursor_ai > CLI

[ClaytTheBuilder @claytthebuilder]

@nalinrajput23 I maybe age-doxxing myself here....but it was notepad...good ol black and white notepad.

[ClaytTheBuilder @claytthebuilder]

@MysterE___ @pcshipp fair enough...what ever works for you bro, do that! I guess i'm a creature of habit...as a SWE, i do like having some oversight, which is why i default to an IDE. But you're right, today's LLM's are soo good, 99% of the time you don't need to look at the code, just ship!

[ClaytTheBuilder @claytthebuilder]

@MysterE___ @pcshipp Agreed...I use both the CLI and the built-in agents in @cursor_ai simultaneously. For more in-depth changes, and planning, i use the cursor agent...for trivial tasks or less complex things, i'll use the CLI

[ClaytTheBuilder @claytthebuilder]

@xoaanya I like flask, however I always default to node.js. Reduces the amount of context switching from one lang to the other. TS across both backend and frontend. Also the ability to have shareable code across both stacks.

[ClaytTheBuilder @claytthebuilder]

@psomkar1 @cursor_ai all day

[ClaytTheBuilder @claytthebuilder]

@MysterE___ @pcshipp true.. which is the point I'm making. IDE > CLI