Gaming💰 ~$40K/month, ads + subscriptions (reported on Starter Story) · Third-party reported

Build a viral daily web game with Claude in a weekend

A non-technical sports creator built the Geosports geography game with Claude in about a weekend and says it makes about $40,000 a month.

By Starter Story on YouTube · Posted · Added Oct 16, 2026

Difficulty
IntermediateOur rating
Time to build
~1 weekend (sourced)From the source
Monthly cost
Not reported
Revenue
~$40K/month, ads + subscriptions (reported on Starter Story)Third-party reported: Reported by a third party (interview, podcast or article); not verified by us
Engagement
122,841 YouTube viewsfetched Oct 15, 2026

What they did

Frank Smith described the game to Claude, built a spec, and asked Claude whenever he got stuck. Stack: Claude Max, Vercel, MapLibre, Upstash Redis for leaderboards, Google Sheets for questions and Stripe for Pro subscriptions.

How it went

He reports about 700,000 monthly active users and about $40,000 a month, mostly programmatic ads plus about 1,800 Pro subscribers, with a 53% organic share rate.

Worth knowing

He credits shareability and zero-friction web play; most traffic is word of mouth, not his audience.

Builder recipe

Our own starting point, written from the source. Adapt it to your setup.

Stack

  • Claude
  • Vercel
  • MapLibre
  • Upstash Redis
  • Stripe

Steps

  1. Describe the game or mod you want.
  2. Build it with your agent in small playable steps.
  3. Playtest after each step.
  4. Share or publish, respecting copyright.

Starter prompt

Write a spec for a daily 5-question map game: show a clue, the player taps a location, score by distance, and share a spoiler-free result grid.

Tags

Agent Claude
Industry Games Sports

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