How I build everything
This is everything I have set up. None of it takes long, and most of it is free.
1. Install Handy, so you can talk to your computer
I talk to my computer with Handy. It turns your voice into text anywhere on your computer. It's free, and it runs on your own machine. Get it at handy.computer.
How I set it up: I like to make my shortcut on Handy the fn (function) key, and leave it on Hold, which is the default. Hold fn, talk, let go.
2. Install Claude, and switch to Claude Code
I build everything in Claude Code. Get the Claude desktop app (you'll need a paid Claude plan to use Claude Code), then click the </> button next to the chat bubble to switch from Chat to Code. That's the mode that can actually build things on your computer.
3. Add the Claude extension for Chrome
I also have Claude in Chrome on Google Chrome, so Claude can open my site in a browser and check its own work.
How to talk to Claude
You may have seen all kinds of wild things for how to prompt it this way or how to prompt it that way. I don't do any of that. I just tell it what I want, the way I'd say it out loud. This page started with me holding fn and saying:
I want to make a website that'll have a video that's part of the texs.org ecosystem that I've been building. I haven't made the video yet and I think I want it to be paywalled.
After that, most of my prompts are just me saying "wait, can you do it?" or "great, keep going" or "can you make the site more modern?"
My four most effective prompts
- “Wait, can you do it?”
- “Great, keep going.”
- “Can you make the site more modern?”
- [Fourth one goes here]
Getting it live
Once I've got a site roughly where I want it, it's on localhost, which means it's running on my own computer. Then I tell Claude Code "commit and push," and it goes live.
Making changes after that
For further changes, a few habits help a lot.
Take screenshots and paste them in. Learn how to take a screenshot on your device and send it to Claude. I take screenshots of different parts of the screen and paste them right in. It's faster than describing what's wrong.
- Mac: ⌘ ⌃ ⇧ 4, drag over part of the screen, then ⌘ V into Claude.
- Windows: ⊞ Win ⇧ S, then Ctrl V.
- iPhone: side button + volume up, then share it to the Claude app.
Let it control Chrome. Letting it control Chrome is maybe one of the most useful things for dealing with a lot of the intricacies that you deal with on Amazon and [finish this thought]. It can click through the settings pages for you while you watch.
Clips
Little pieces of the walkthrough. Coming soon.
FAQs
Wait, you build everything with AI?
Yes. And I'm tired of pretending I'm not.
I have been coding websites by hand for twenty years, and it's exquisite to manage code rather than write it. It opens up all kinds of possibilities, creative freedoms, extreme customization, and more. If someone notices a bug or asks you for a feature, you can potentially add it in 15 minutes.
I'm at a point where I don't want to use software unless I know there's a passionate vibe-coder behind it. Vibe coding means that every good feature can and will get added in a short amount of time.
Why are you sharing how easy it is to build websites the way you do?
I think there will always be a place for a point person. No matter how easy it gets, it's still annoying, and there's still risk involved. You need a meat proxy. The world is full of meat proxies.
Doesn't AI use enormous amounts of energy? And water?
I'm a vegan and I try to reduce my travel, both of which are far more significant contributors to those two problems.
What about the coders you're putting out of work?
Coding is building blocks. We've all contributed to the code of the world in some way, and now, as coders, we all get to benefit from it.
I did coding in various ways before this, before coding with AI, but I've done nothing like what I can do now.
Why isn't this free?
This page basically publishes everything you need to know. The video is a much more detailed walkthrough and shows how I use it. And it's fun to watch. It took time to make.
I've built texs.org as a sort of Patreon kind of thing, and I think it's a way of both you supporting me and me supporting you. A membership also gets you everything else on texs.org, like the VHS Label Maker and the Crossword Generator.
