Hand Claude Code a website and an ad budget to run on its own
A web developer gave Claude Code a baseline site, ad accounts with a budget, and scraping tools, and lets it make marketing decisions every four hours.
Build an AI lifting coach app with no coding background
A former finance intern built Maxed AI, a lifting and fitness coach app, with Claude Code and reports about $14-15K a month.
- Difficulty
- IntermediateOur rating
- Time to build
- ~6 months (sourced)From the source
- Monthly cost
- Not reported
- Revenue
- ~$14K/month revenue (reported on Starter Story)Third-party reported: Reported by a third party (interview, podcast or article); not verified by us
- Engagement
- 73,589 YouTube viewsfetched Oct 15, 2026
What they did
Max started with a Claude Code membership and worked in the terminal daily for six months. The app tracks lifts, sleep, nutrition and supplements, with an AI coach that adjusts programs. Stack: Claude, Supabase, Vercel, Expo, RevenueCat.
How it went
He shows nearly $14,000 in revenue over 28 days, 1,000 active subscribers and 20,000 iOS downloads, with a $24.99 yearly price.
Worth knowing
Starter Story interviews the founder and shows dashboards on camera; we have not verified the numbers. Founder-led content drives about a third of revenue, he says.
Builder recipe
Our own starting point, written from the source. Adapt it to your setup.
Stack
- Claude Code
- Expo
- Supabase
- RevenueCat
Steps
- Gather your documents or preferences.
- Ask the agent to explain and organize, not diagnose.
- Take its questions and summaries to a professional.
- Keep sensitive data private.
Starter prompt
Add a chat coach to my lifting app: it reads the user’s program and last 7 days of sleep, and can lower volume when they say they feel sick.Tags
Read the original
- YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLidq3_FwW0 ↗ (opens in new tab) Oct 8, 2026 · 73,589 views (fetched 2026-10-15)
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