Lessons from first Claude Code experience

Yesterday I told you I’d be using Claude Code to design my website.

AI isn’t going anywhere, and I came to the conclusion that I need to be capable when it comes to using it.

Here’s why…

Businesses are using Claude Code to create everything faster. Including ads, landing pages, email automations, and whatever else you’d need to market your business.

The ability to test different offers and landing pages has always been a major focal point of finding what people want.

So last night I started using Claude to design a website.

I was shocked at how intuitive it was.

It created an entire website for me in less than 1 hour.

Even better, it hooked up my opt-ins and automations.

This alone used to take me half a day to do.

Now I could do it in less than 2 hours.

And I didn’t need to hire a developer to do it.

Color me sold on Claude Code’s capabilities.

My website is still not where I want it to be, but it’s on the right track.

The first pass using Claude Code.

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Here are a few lessons I learned…

1. Never give Claude Code any user names or passwords: This sounds obvious but I typed in one of my passwords to my hosting site and it gave me a stern warning. Claude Code lets you do the logging in yourself, and it never asks you for information. That was reassuring for somebody new to the tech.
2. Be honest about what you want: Don’t be shy to tell it anything you want on your website, even if it seems outlandish. It’s amazing what it’s capable of, and the further you dig, the more your website will look authentic to you. I feel like I held back a bit because I didn’t want to break anything, but will be slowly pushing it harder in the future.
3. Take inspiration from other websites: When I didn’t know how to articulate what I wanted, I’d take a screenshot of a website I liked and asked Claude Code if it could create something similar, and it did. This was when it started getting pretty fun for me.
4. Start writing down more of your wishlist: If you run out of tokens or time, keep writing down things you want for future request. A great thing Claude Code does is it clears space in your brain and you can get into an even greater flow, and I was getting more and more ideas coming through than I normally would. Capturing those creative echoes is really important otherwise you might lose them.
5. The 80% is the easiest part, the 20% gets more friction: The website was done quick, but the last 20% of trying to get it exactly where I wanted it was tedious.

That’s all for now.