'm a designer. I cannot write production code from scratch. And yet — I've spent the last week building a full fitness & nutrition tracking app. Alone. No engineering team. No co-founder. No agency. Just me, Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Codex — and an idea I was tired of waiting to exist. I haven't shipped yet. I'm still deep in it. But what's already been built in 7 days has genuinely surprised me. Subscription logic. AI food scanning. A nutrition AI. Body scan comparisons. Streak tracking. Backdated meal and activity logging. Unit preferences. All of it. Not a Figma prototype. Not a concept deck. Working features, on a real app. The barrier I thought existed between designer and founder — it's not what I thought it was. I'm sharing this week in public. The wins, the confusion, the moments I wanted to quit. Because I think a lot of designers are sitting on ideas, waiting for a technical co-founder or enough budget to hire one. Maybe they don't have to wait as long as they think. Follow along. will be pushing live soon hashtag#BuildInPublic hashtag#ProductDesign hashtag#AITools hashtag#DesignerWhoBuilds hashtag#Cursor hashtag#Claude hashtag#IndieHacker