So, in 2025, I made half a million

dollars off Claude Code. This is a

breakdown right here of where that money

came from. A majority of that money came

from the SAS I built with Claude Code,

which I made over $300,000 on. I also

created a ton of content with and about

Claude Code. In total, you can see how

that content did for me. X content made

me about $100,000. That's ad revenue and

subscriptions, newsletter sponsorships

and subscriptions, YouTube sponsorships

and ad revenue as well as a private

community. All of this was driven by

Claude Code and I am very very confident

you can do something similar. In this

video, I'm going to go over every single

step you can start doing today, not

tomorrow, not next week, today to start

making money off Claude Code and AI. I'm

going to go over my complete framework I

built for making revenue with Claude

Code. We're going to talk about building

apps with Claude Code. We're going to

talk about creating content with Claude

Code. And we're going to talk about how

it all ties together. And even if you

have zero followers today, I had under a

thousand subscribers on YouTube at the

beginning of 2025. You can still start

building a business with Claude Code

today. Still start generating revenue.

And I'm going to go over every single

step. There will be no secrets not

revealed during this video. This video

is made for you if you're willing to

start taking action today. If you're not

willing, I humbly invite you to watch

some sort of other video on YouTube.

Maybe you can watch Ninja play Fortnite

or something. I don't know. But if

you're ready to take action, then lock

in and let's get into it. So, we're

going to cover everything in this video.

We're going to start real quick on

setting up Claude Code. Then I'm going

to talk about building app. I'm going to

talk about marketing. I'm going to talk

about getting your first customer. I'm

going to talk about starting your

content journey so you can drive people

to your app and also open up multiple

revenue streams. We're going to talk

about a lot here, but basically from a

high level, what we'll be talking about

is the buildin public framework. And

that is the framework that you see here.

building in public. So, building apps,

solving challenges that people have,

creating content around what you're

building that content driving revenue

for you, whether it's driving people to

your app or earning money through

sponsorships or ad revenue or the

thousand different ways you can make

money by creating, listening to the

feedback people give you based on what

you're creating and then building based

on that feedback. And that spins this

wheel over and over and over. It's

basically a flywheel. And the more you

go through this wheel, the more your

revenue will grow. And the best part is

is you don't need to quit your job to do

this. When I started building this

flywheel, I had a 9 to5 and I just

started tweeting and building for 10

minutes a day. And that has led me to

where I am now. So this doesn't require

a massive time commitment. Obviously,

the more time you spend, the better this

flywheel will go, but anyone can start

taking the actionable steps I'm about to

start going through in this video. So

Claude Code drives all this and I'm

going to walk through how that works as

well. So to start off, I'm just going to

go 10 seconds on how to set up Claude

Code. If you already have Claude Code

set up, feel free to grab a drink of

water or you can just fast forward to

the next chapter. All you need to do to

install Claude Code is get the command

to install it. So I'll leave the

documentation for Claude Code down

below. But here's the Mac OS. Here's the

Windows command. You just copy this. You

go into your terminal. I like to use a

terminal. Some people like to use Visual

Studio Code. Some people like to use

cursor. I do this straight in my

terminal because it's the simplest and

fastest. I'm actually using Ghosty,

which is a terminal emulator, but you

can just use your built-in terminal to

your computer. You paste in that command

from the documentation. You hit enter.

It installs Claude Code. Boom. You have

Claude Code set up. I'm going to go

through all the tips and tricks on how

to use it very shortly. But first, let's

go into what we're going to actually do

with Claude Code. What we're going to

actually build. So let's jump into this

first phase of the build and public

framework which is the actual building

part. You need to build something with

claude code. So the first step in the

process is building an app. The best

apps in the entire world solve problems.

So if you want to build an app people

are going to want to use, you need to

build an app that solves problems. Now

what problem do you solve, you ask?

Well, the best problems to solve are

your own problems. If you solve problems

and challenges that you have, odds are

other people have those challenges, too.

So, to give you an example, this is

Creator Buddy. This is the SAS I built

last year that made over $300,000. I

built this cuz I had a challenge. I

wanted an AI that analyzed all my

content. I was spending hours a day

analyzing my own Twitter content. So,

that was taking up a ton of time. So, I

aimed to build an AI that analyzed all

my own Twitter content for me and

recommended better Twitter content to

make. So, I built this to save my own

time, to solve my own challenge.

Luckily, other people had that

challenge, too. And it ended up leading

to tons and tons of customers buying my

product. These are the best challenges

to solve are your own challenges cuz

worst case scenario, even if no one buys

your product, which people will buy your

product after this video, you make your

own life easier. But the best case

scenario, if you do all the steps I lay

out in this video, you'll get customers

and you'll make money. So, you want to

find challenges to solve in your own

life. What's the best way to find

challenges to solve in your own life? I

love brain dumping. Get a notebook, get

a pen, carry it around with you all day

and write down every single challenge

you have on a day-to-day basis. Every

challenge you have from beginning today

to end today, write it down. Then, what

we can do is we can go into Claude Code

and find solutions to those challenges.

So, now that we have Claude Code

installed, I'm going to type in Claude

in a brand new folder on my computer.

And it is going to boot up Claude Code.

So, I'm going to say yes, I trust this

folder. And boom, Claude's there to go.

We're going to do shift tab, shift tab,

which is going to put us in plan mode in

Claude. And this is basically our

conversational feature in Claude. We're

just going to talk. We're not going to

build anything. We're just going to talk

to Claude. So, I'm going to do is this.

I'm going to say, "Here are all my

challenges I had today. Please recommend

solutions we can build with Claude code

that will solve one of these challenges.

Then I'm simply going to list the

challenges I wrote down in my notebook.

So I wrote down a bunch of example

challenges I have. And you can do this

along with me by the way. So feel free

to pause as we go and just do this along

with me. You'll come out of this video

with an entire game plan ready to go. It

takes me a really long time to analyze

my tweets. Scripting YouTube videos

takes hours. Creating YouTube thumbnails

is difficult. I don't know what to cook

with the ingredients in my fridge. I

don't know what workouts to do at the

gym to get big muscles. And I'm going to

hit enter on that. And what we're going

to do now is we're going to have a

conversation with Claude Code around

potential solutions to those challenges.

So this is one of the biggest things I

see from people trying to use claude

code is they just don't know what to

build. They have no idea what to build.

This solves that for you. So here are

the challenges that are well suited for

building with cloud code. Tweet

analysis. The solution is CLI tool that

analyze engagement sentiment best

posting times. YouTube scripting script

generator with hook structure templates

and inter refinement. Recipe finder.

Inputs your ingredients. Get recipe

suggestions with instructions. A workout

planner. Generate muscle building

workout plans based on goals, equipment,

and experience. And a YouTube thumbnail

builder. You know what? Let's actually

go with this workout planner. I need

that. I go to the gym every day. I'm not

seeing the results I want to see. Let's

build a workout planner. And if you do

this with me, by the way, you'll not

only have an app that'll help your life,

but you'll also have an app you can

start selling. You can take whatever we

build in this video and just start

selling it right away. So Claude's going

to ask me which I'm most interested in.

I'm going to choose the workout planner.

So I'm going to scroll down, hit enter

there. It's going to ask me follow-up

questions, which I absolutely love about

Claude Code. So any specific design

styles. I like dark and bold. Dark and

bold's always nice to me. So let's do

dark and bold. And it's going to

finalize the plan for us. If this is

your first time using Claude Code, one

of my biggest tips I can give you is

just always ask questions to Claude.

Treat it like a co-orker. Treat it like

a collaborator and feel free to go back

and forth with it. So, it's going to

give me this entire plan. And if you

don't understand the technical stuff,

it's no big deal at all. It's going to

give us personalized muscle building

workout plans based on user input. So,

multi-step forms for user preferences, a

clean, responsive UI, and it's going to

generate entire workout plans for us. I

love that. This is something we can

start selling to people and creating

content around right away. So, I'm going

to hit yes. Let's start building it. And

Claude Code is going to get to work

building this. By the way, once this V1

is done, which will be done in like 15

seconds here, I'm going to talk about

getting your first customer. So, I'm

going to talk about starting a content

journey, getting your first customers,

and iterating from there. You'll have a

bulletproof plan for making your first

dollar with Claude code in just a few

minutes. All right, looks like it's

done. Been working for a while here. Do

I want to proceed? Yes. Let's build this

and let's see what this V1 of the app

looks like. All right, looks like Claude

finished building the V1 of our app.

Let's check it out. All you need to do

is go to the address it gives you. I

then pull it over. Let's look what we

got here. This actually looks pretty

nice. This doesn't look like an AI build

app at all. Build your perfect plan.

Let's get started. Oh wow. So, it gives

you this nice multi- menu approach. And

we'll talk about getting our first

customers and all that in a second. Say

I'm an intermediate. How many days? I

work out like five times a week. What

equipment do you have? We have a gym at

the building. Let's do full gym. How

long are your sessions? There's 60

minutes. We'll go medium. And wow, look

at this. It gives me an entire plan.

Wow, this is all out of the box. I

didn't have to implement any AI or

anything and just implement. This is

awesome. Push day. It gives me exact

workouts. This is incredible. So, we

already have a full app. If you were to

stop right here and like this is the end

of the video for you, you already built

something that's going to improve your

life and you did it in just a few

minutes. So, that's amazing. But the

point of this video is making half a

million dollars a year. So we need to go

into getting our first customers, making

our first dollar, building more revenue

streams on top that. So let's go back to

our framework. So we did the build

phase, right? We built out this new

workout app that gives us workouts every

single day. We solved one of our own

challenges of we don't know what to do

at the gym. That has been solved. So we

go to the next phase, which is the

create phase. So getting your first

customer is done through creating

content. That's how I got my first

customer through Creator Buddy. And this

also leads to making money four or five

different ways, which I'll go into in a

second as well. But you need to start

creating in order to get customers. And

why should you create? Why is creating

the best way to get your first customer?

Well, creating content is free. So,

you're doing free advertising basically

to get your first customers. It helps

you build your brand so people start

learning your name, knowing who you are.

Ever since I started building this

YouTube channel a year ago, I've made

unbelievable connections, met huge

people in the Silicon Valley. It's been

amazing. There are so many benefits to

building your brand with content. It

opens up more revenue stream. So, as I

showed you at the beginning of the

video, I'm now making money off YouTube

advertisement, YouTube subscriptions,

newsletter subscriptions, newsletter

advertisements, x ad revenue, literally

eight or nine different revenue streams.

Creating content won't only get you

customers to your app, but open up many,

many revenue streams. You're nice,

diversified, and safe. And it allows you

to sell your next product. So, whatever

we build after this fitness app

together, we'll be able to sell that as

well because we already have our

existing platform and brand that we

built through this one. So, this sets

you up for success even in the future.

So, what exactly should you create?

Well, I think the three best options are

right here. You have X, which I think is

the easiest. takes literally 3 minutes a

day to write tweets. That's all it

takes. Creator Buddy is all about

creating content for the X algorithm.

So, this is all I did is all I did was

create content about the X algorithm. My

account blew up because of my content

around the X algorithm and talking about

what works, what doesn't. Then it was a

natural cell to transition from talking

about the X algorithm to talking about

Creator Buddy and getting people on the

app because they were very related. So

if we are going to do something like

sell our fitness app that we just went

through which I think Claude Code named

Iron Forge. Yep. Iron Forge. I like that

name actually. All we would do is we

would start creating content around

fitness. So maybe I'd go in here and I

just talk about my fitness journey. ers

sizes I did this week and then I go

through my entire fitness routine. Maybe

I'd post a picture to show my progress

over the last week or the last month and

I would continuously post content around

fitness. Then I would use the jab jab

hook methodology which is give value,

give value, then take value, right? So

for instance, maybe we do a few tweets

around fitness advice and then we do a

tweet talking about Iron Forge. Iron

Forge is the best way to get started

with working out, right? So, we did a

few valuebased tweets. Now, we're

talking about our app. This will get

people onto our app. And yes, if you

have zero followers, it will be a little

more challenging. But if you do this

enough, you'll get your first customer

and you'll make your first dollar. And

if you make your first dollar off your

SAS right now, that's significantly more

than you're making before that first

dollar. And that's a win. In order to

get to 100,000, you need to start with

one. You also can do YouTube. This is

significantly harder than X because X

takes a couple minutes. I started

building my ex with a 9 to5. Literally

in between meetings, I would just put

out a tweet or two. It took 5 minutes a

day to start building. Now I'm up to

300,000 followers just by doing that.

But you also have YouTube, which is much

harder because it takes a lot more

effort to create videos. But the reward

is much higher as well because it is the

biggest social media platform on planet

Earth. Literally 2% of all human time

spent is on YouTube. 2% of all time

human beings spend is on YouTube. So it

has the highest reward, but it is the

most challenging. So if you have a

couple hours a week to spare to script,

film, and edit, you should be posting on

YouTube as well. And the good part about

that is you can take the videos you post

on YouTube and post them on X, too.

Every video I post on YouTube, I also

post on X, and they all perform really,

really well. The X algorithm is built

for video. So you also want to crossost

to X. You also have a newsletter. If you

enjoy writing, I highly recommend

starting a newsletter. You can just

start a Substack for free. Beehive costs

a bunch of money. You can do that if you

want. Substack's completely free. Start

a Substack. Newsletters are amazing

because your content is going directly

to people's inboxes, which is the most

personal place that it could possibly go

to. It guarantees they basically read

the content. Newsletters are amazing and

they are absolutely amazing for driving

revenue as well. Once you do this, we

went from build to create. Now we're

earning, right? If you create content

enough and you start building your

following, even if you only have 20, 30,

50 followers on X, one of those people

will buy your product if you talk about

your subject enough. You'll also do a

few other things. You'll start making

money on ad revenue on X. As you can

see, I've made $50,000 on ad revenue.

You also start making money on

subscriptions. I've made almost $50,000

on subscriptions. So, this has turned

into a $100,000 revenue stream for me

just here, just by posting my ideas a

couple times a day. You also start

making money on YouTube ad revenue. I've

made almost $5,000 in the last month off

YouTube ad revenue, which is amazing.

And this is all a byproduct of talking

about your app and talking about what

you're building and sharing your work in

public. Most people when launching a

product, they pay for advertising. But

with this framework I'm showing you

right here, you're actually getting paid

for advertising because every piece of

content you make is making you money. So

again, create content around the

challenge you're solving. If you're

building a workout app like we're doing

in this video, you give workout advice.

If you're creating a content building

app like I do at Creator Buddy, you give

content advice. Maybe you're huge into

basketball, so you make a app around how

to shoot a free throw. And then you go

on X and you start tweeting about how to

shoot free throws, right? There's so

many ways to do this. It doesn't matter

what you are into. I promise you can

find a challenge to solve and then

create content around it. So you built,

you created, you started earning. Claude

Code is supporting all of this. I

regularly have Claude go and look at my

social media channels and give me

recommendations for content I can

create. I have Claude Code going every

day, look at my YouTube channel and come

up with new ideas for things I can

build. So Claude Code is driving all

this. Remember Claude Code's not just

for code. It can also look at websites

and give you advice, too. So we built,

we created, we earned. Now we listen,

right? We started building a community,

we started getting customers, now we

listen to what they have to say. I

started getting so many tweets and DMs

about Creator Buddy when I launched it.

For you, if you're just starting and

you're small and you don't have many

followers, maybe it's just one tweet you

get about your product. Maybe it's just

one DM, but you listen to it. You see

what people have to say. You take their

feedback of what they want out of your

product and you go back into Claude Code

and you give that feedback. So maybe we

put out our fitness app. We get some

feedback. Hey, I want to be able to

record my workouts inside the app. We

can say, "Hey Claude, someone asked to

record their workouts in the app. Can we

implement that?" We take their feedback,

we give it to Claude. Claude goes and

starts building out their feedback in

our app for us. They're basically like

our employee here. This is the best way

to keep building our app is to take user

feedback and just implement it. Take

feedback, give it to Claude, right? You

don't even have to think of the features

yourself. You can literally just copy

and paste the DMs and the replies you're

getting, give it to Claude and say,

"Hey, what the hell do I do about this?"

Claude will take it, as you just saw a

second ago, will start asking you

questions about the feedback and then

build out the functionality itself. I'm

working on a way at the moment to have

Claude code automatically every day scan

Twitter to see what they're saying about

Creator Buddy and just automatically

implement itself. There are going to be

so many ways in the very near future.

You can just automate everything you're

seeing here. It really is amazing. So,

we started listening. We started getting

feedback. What did we do from there? And

what did I just show you? We started

building again, right? The whole loop

starts again. So, we started building.

So, boom. I look at my app. There it is.

We have now logging where we can put in

uh exactly what we're doing for every

exercise. That is amazing. Now we can

start now that we built do the loop all

over again and go and start creating. So

I would go back to X at this point. I

would say best ways to track your

workout and I would give tips on logging

and tracking your workout. Then after

this is done, I'd put a second tweet

that says, "Track your workouts easily

with Iron Forge." And then I'd link to

our app, and boom, maybe this gets us

another customer, a fourth customer, a

fifth customer, and on and on this goes.

We created content again. This gets us

our second and third and fourth

customer. We listen to their feedback.

We build a new feature. This is the

playbook of the future. This is the

playbook of 2026. I've been validating

this the last few years and trust me, it

works. It allowed me to quit my job. It

allowed me to make a full-time living.

Allowed me to launch the app of my

dreams. It allowed me to start this

YouTube channel. There's nothing I do

special. This is the playbook. There are

no secrets involved. Build, create,

earn, listen, and build again based on

all that feedback and go over and over

and over again. The more you can do this

cycle, the more money you will make.

Period. And the best part is nothing

special is needed. You can start the

moment this video ends. Go to Claude

Code, do the exercises we talked about

at the very beginning in this video.

Feel free to go back to the beginning

again and do it along with us. Brain

dump your challenges and you're good to

go. There is no reason you can't at

least get to the create phase by the end

of today. If you start now, I personally

guarantee this. I personally guarantee

if you start right now and you go

through this phase every single day

until the end of 2026, you will make at

least your first dollar this year. And

if you're making zero dollars right now

off of AI, that is a monstrous big win

and puts you in the top 1% of AI

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