
The App Store Said Yes
Two weeks ago I wrote "Still building. Still not done." Today DIALØGUE is live on the App Store. Here's what the last 40% actually looked like.
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Two weeks ago I wrote "Still building. Still not done." Today DIALØGUE is live on the App Store. Here's what the last 40% actually looked like.

493 blog posts across 17 years, translated into 10 languages, ~4,900 files, ~3.9 million words. Claude Code's parallel agents made it possible — but the Korean disaster, the Cantonese voice problem, and the 5-hour usage cap taught me more than the successes.

I'm building my first iOS app without knowing Swift. Claude Code scaffolded the whole thing in an evening. Then I opened the Simulator, and the real work began.

I migrated my blog to Next.js and thought the hard part was over. Then the compounding started — 6 mega guides, a smarter AI assistant, native newsletter, bot protection, and SEO overhaul in 8 days.

I migrated 485 WordPress posts to Next.js in 4 days using a plugin that taught Claude to think like a product manager—not just a code generator.

I rebuilt my entire website in 3 days using AI—not as a coding assistant, but as my actual developer. I made the decisions; Claude Code wrote 28,000 lines.