GeoSports · B2C · daily sports geography game
Have Claude write a spec, then block 8 hours to build it with Claude
Non-coder shipped the game in a weekend
Workedfeature-development
What they did
Gave regular Claude lots of detail about the game idea, asked it to research Maptap, and had it write a spec. When stuck, asked Claude and referred back to the spec; Claude recommended the tools to install. Took many screenshots of Vercel and domain setup screens and asked Claude what to do and whether his inputs were right. Worked about 8 hours on Sunday and cleared his Monday. Advice: block off 8 hours of uninterrupted work and ask your LLM whenever you get stuck.
What happened
Built and shipped the game over a weekend with no coding background.
- Stage
- Pre-launch (build)
“You know, I went to regular Claude first, and I just gave it a bunch of detail. Here's all this information I have for a game, you know, do some research on Maptap, and I had it build a spec.”
“Try to block off 8 hours of uninterrupted work to give yourself a chance to build something.”
“So, I relied on screenshots and tons of questions and recommend everyone else do the same.”
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