Robyn AndersonCEO, Jam Ai · AI Implementation & Business Development Leader

#selfmademillionaire I am so lucky that I get to experience this excitement everyday with my clients

19 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this candid monologue, the speaker recounts how, after years of trying to create a website since 2018 and being unfamiliar with development platforms like GitHub and Railway, they turned to the AI assistant Claude. A human developer had quoted $15‑$25k for the project, but the speaker asked Claude to build it. Within 2.5 hours Claude generated a functional prototype, allowed iterative edits, and then spent additional sessions (about 3 hours) walking the speaker through code changes, GitHub repository setup, and Railway deployment. The narrative emphasizes the speed, cost‑effectiveness, and step‑by‑step guidance provided by Claude, contrasting it with traditional development costs and the speaker’s prior lack of technical knowledge.

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No, literally, because what the fuck, Claude? What the fuck? Yesterday? No, 2 days ago, I did not know what GitHub or Railway was. I've been trying to build a website since 2018, and I know what you're thinking, like, Stormy, that's almost 10 years ago. I didn't know what those 2— I don't even know, are they websites? Are they developing apps? I don't even know what they are. I asked Claude to build me the website that I've been trying to build for years. and I knew that it was gonna take a lot of coding. Like, I reached out to a, a real human developer several years ago, and they were like, yeah, that's gonna cost you somewhere between $15,000 and $25,000 for me to build for you. I imagine because it's a lot of code, it's a lot of backend, it's a, it's a lot of different little moving parts. I literally, 2 days ago, 2 evenings ago, in 2.5 hours, told Claude what I wanted to build. It built it for me, gave me a preview, and I said, okay, change this, this, this, this, this, this, this. And they're like, okay, now you have a functioning thing, but there's a couple more steps you need to add edit, you need to deploy it on GitHub, and then deploy it on Railway, and then it'll process. It literally walked me through. Last night, Claude and I spent 3 hours. It walked me through all the steps. It had to change some code, edit some things.