I was hired to engineer a founder's product. Then something unexpected happened. We started havin...I was hired to engineer a founder's product. Then something unexpected happened. We started havin...
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We started having weekly sessions where I wasn't just building the product for him, I was teaching him how to build with AI himself.
We work through the things that actually matter:
→ Turning ideas into buildable features
→ Using modern AI development tools
→ Connecting APIs, MCPs, and automations
→ Debugging AI-generated solutions
→ Making better technical decisions
And when something requires deeper engineering, architecture, or implementation, I take ownership of it.
I think this is where AI-native product development is heading:
Founders don't need to become developers.
They need to become better at building with AI.
That's the kind of technical partnership I want to build with founders.
Then: 1 month, 1 template.
Now: 1 week, 15 templates.
Same designer, different workflow.
I wrote up how I built no-code.supply: fifteen website templates, each with its own brand, in HTML and React, and some in Framer too. Claude Code did most of the typing. I did the directing.
How do you make an AI product feel genuinely human?
For YouSquared, we started with the product experience first. We tested UX patterns screen by screen, explored more than twelve visual directions with real users, and handcrafted every detail without using AI.
The final system expanded across app, website, illustration, motion, and marketing, creating a complete ecosystem that was easy to scale and hand off.