Weekly Update 1/12/26
Dude Claude Code is giving me crazy super powers.
Hello and welcome to week 2. Last week was busy and Claude Code has opened up a whole new world for me as far as building apps goes. Here’s what I got up to last week:
Progress updates
Current projects
Nova Music
Nova got a ton of love this week. The big addition was converting the student portal to a family-based system. Now families log in once and see all their kids’ schedules, assignments, and practice logs in one place with color-coded events. I also built out a full billing portal where families can view and pay invoices through Stripe, complete with payment confirmation emails.
Other additions include an assignment checklist system for tracking practice goals, a teacher resources page with drag-and-drop file uploads and in-page previews, and magic link emails for easy family onboarding.
Experimentation Labs Site
I ended up splitting out the newsletter.experimentationlabs.com and root experimentationlabs.com websites so that I can use the root one as more of a portfolio website. I added two new tools to the site: a Test Plan Generator with AI-powered suggestions and an A/B Test Analyzer with statistical significance calculations. Also revamped the navigation with a megamenu and added SEO basics (robots.txt, sitemap, Open Graph tags).
Onewheel Utah
Bringing an old project back to life! Years ago I ran a small Onewheel website I built with WordPress, but life got busy and it’s been hard to want to keep managing or paying to manage this. So this week with Claude I built a full custom WordPress theme with Tailwind and DaisyUI for a revamped website and marketplace. So that’s back to some of it’s former glory, but with a whole new architecture. I don’t know how much love this one will get going forward, but its a fun side project. I’d love to build some AI Agents to automate content management and stuff like that, so we’ll see what time permits.
What’s coming up
I’m going to be out of town for most of this week, so I doubt there will be too much that gets done here, my major focus is on building a GTM plan for Nova so that I can start to onboard beta testers and be ready for launch at the end of Q1, so probably not too many visible updates.
Upcoming posts
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AI Wednesday - Vibe code to live guide
Growth Thursday - When is friction in your product a good thing?
Fail Friday - The losing loop of carnival games
Last week’s posts
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