I'm a designer. I can write HTML, CSS and JS half-decently, but I shouldn't be able to do this.

In the past month or so I was able to launch a micro SaaS. It has sign-in, Stripe billing, content moderation, spend caps, and monitoring that alerts me when something breaks.

- 140+ pull requests
- ~85,000 lines of code and tests, almost half of them in a single week
- 800+ automated tests
- 20 database migrations

I shouldn't be able to do this.

My stack:

Claude Code: my daily driver, on the Max 20x plan.

Conductor: a huge unlock. Parallel worktrees of the same project. I'm controlling up to a dozen agents at once, each on a different task, sometimes with their own sub-agent swarms.

gstack (by Garry Tan): Garry Tan's skill pack, which gives Claude the roles of a small team (eng manager, QA tester, designer, and more). Its eng review caught a hole in my first version that let anyone talk my twin past its privacy rules. That version was live.

I'm thankful for the years at OddCamp and Harvest next to really, really good engineers. I picked up so much from my time with those talented folks: why you test the boring parts, what tech debt costs you later, when to slow down.

I guess what I'm trying to say is: what a time to be a designer!