The argument in one line.
One person can now deliver a $10,000 software MVP in under an hour by automating client discovery into PRDs with Zapier and Claude, then plugging pre-built infrastructure from Whop, Supabase, and Vercel instead of building from scratch.
Read if. Skip if.
READ IF YOU ARE…
- A creator with 50k+ audience who wants to build a software product for their community but lacks technical skills or a development budget.
- A solo developer or technical founder who wants to see how to compress a 6-week agency delivery cycle into 1 hour using modern AI and no-code tools.
- A software agency owner looking to automate service delivery workflows and increase project throughput without hiring additional staff.
SKIP IF…
- You're building a complex, stateful application with sophisticated business logic — this breakdown focuses on quick MVPs and prioritizes speed over architectural depth.
- You want to learn how to market or acquire your first software clients — the video assumes you already have distribution or an audience to pitch to.
The full version, fast.
A three-person, six-week creator software agency can now be run solo in about an hour by chaining AI tools to creators who bring built-in distribution. The mechanism is a four-stage pipeline: pitch educational creators in a niche for monthly fees, equity, or a hybrid; auto-generate a product requirements document by piping AI notetaker transcripts through Zapier and Claude into Google Drive; design the MVP in Claude Code using a Canva brand kit and a Figma component library so it does not look vibe-coded; then wire in real infrastructure with pre-built tools rather than building from scratch, using Whop for payments, payouts, chat, and OAuth, Supabase for the database, and Vercel for hosting. The leverage comes from never rebuilding infrastructure and reusing one stack across every client project.
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00:00 – 00:37
01 · Cold open
Claude Code terminal on screen; agency automation claim; seven-figure credibility drop.
00:37 – 02:08
02 · Creator Software Agency model
Atlas AI case study (Sebastian Georgiou, 500K/mo). Three unfair advantages creators bring: problem intuition, distribution, peer network.
02:08 – 03:21
03 · Finding creators + cold DM
Pick a niche, DM educational creators, offer to build software for equity. Brett confirms: 500K-sub creators read every DM.
03:21 – 04:06
04 · Deal structures
Three options: monthly build fee ($2K-$6K), equity, hybrid. Hybrid is Brett's favorite.
04:06 – 08:53
05 · Phase 1 — Automated PRD pipeline
Record client call with Fellow AI notetaker, pipe transcript through Zapier into Claude with a PM system prompt, output PRD to Google Drive. Full demo shown live.
08:53 – 11:41
06 · Phase 2 — Premium UI
Claude Code builds wireframe from PRD. Canva brand kit PDF + Figma component library injected via prompt to elevate from prototype to polished product.
11:41 – 20:15
07 · Phase 3 — Real infrastructure
Whop embedded checkout (pay-ins + payouts). WAP OAuth for account creation. Supabase for DB schema. Vercel + custom domain for hosting. Each step guided by Claude.
20:15 – 22:42
08 · Recap + CTA
Before/after: 6-week team of 3 vs 1-hour solo. Free course and prompt pack linked in description.
Lines worth screenshotting.
- A software agency project that once required 3 people and 6 weeks now takes 1 person under 1 hour with Claude Code.
- Large YouTube creators typically receive fewer than 5 DMs per day, making cold outreach far less competitive than most people assume.
- Charging $6,000/month for software built in an hour still represents better value to clients than hiring a traditional agency team.
- Atlas AI, built for an ecommerce YouTuber with equity in lieu of fees, grew to over $500,000 per month in revenue.
- The biggest weakness of vibe-coding is infrastructure — real-time chat, payments, and auth become exponentially complex at scale.
- Embedding a brand kit PDF plus a Figma component library into Claude's prompt is the single step that separates toy apps from premium-feeling products.
- The smartest move with AI coding tools is telling them to plug in pre-built infrastructure, not asking them to recreate it from scratch.
- Creators with distribution are a better client target than businesses because they are already their own customer and understand the problem deeply.
- Almost nobody is offering to build custom software for niche creators, making it one of the lowest-competition high-ticket service opportunities right now.
- Automating the PRD step through a Zapier/AI meeting-to-document pipeline removes the project manager role entirely from a software agency workflow.
- Onboarding flow quality determines product conversion before users ever experience the core feature, making it the most leveraged design decision in any app.
- Baking your preferred tech stack into the Zapier AI prompt means every future project automatically inherits the same architecture without re-prompting.
- A hybrid deal structure — small monthly fee plus equity — protects cash flow during the build phase while preserving long-term upside.
- Software agency profit margins were roughly 55% even at full headcount; AI compression of that headcount makes margins dramatically higher on the same revenue.
- Claude's Chrome extension can take direct control of your computer to complete setup steps that would otherwise require manual intervention.
The 3-phase collapse.
Agency builder playbook
Brett did not just speed up agency work. He eliminated two of the three phases by automating them, which means one person with the right tools is now structurally equivalent to a full team.
- Automate your PRD intake first: Fellow + Zapier + Claude turns any client call into a build-ready spec doc. Never write a spec by hand again.
- Build your agency aesthetic moat once: a Canva brand kit PDF + Figma component library you inject into every Claude Code prompt. Reuse on every project.
- Never vibe-code infrastructure: payments (Whop), auth (OAuth), database (Supabase), hosting (Vercel) are solved problems. Tell Claude to embed them.
- Price hybrid on the first project: small monthly fee keeps you solvent; equity gives you Atlas AI-style upside if the creator blows up.
- The unclaimed niche: DM educational creators offering to build software for their audience. Almost zero competition, and large creators actually read their DMs.
Terms worth knowing.
- Software agency
- A service business that builds custom software applications for clients, typically charging monthly retainers or taking equity in exchange for development work.
- MVP
- Minimum viable product. The smallest, simplest version of an app that has just enough features to be usable and test the core idea with real users.
- PRD
- Product requirements document. A written spec that defines what an app is, who it's for, what features it needs, and what the first version should include, so a development team knows exactly what to build.
- Claude Code
- Anthropic's command-line coding tool that lets a developer (or non-developer) build, edit, and deploy software by giving instructions in plain English to the Claude AI model.
- Zapier
- A no-code automation platform that connects different apps and triggers actions between them, used here to chain a meeting recorder, an AI model, and Google Drive into one workflow.
- Fellow
- An AI meeting notetaker that joins video calls, records them, and produces written transcripts and summaries automatically.
- Trigger event
- In an automation workflow, the starting condition that kicks off the rest of the steps, such as a new meeting transcript being created.
- System prompt
- Background instructions given to an AI model that set its role and behavior before it sees the user's actual input, like telling it to act as a senior product manager.
- Tech stack
- The specific set of tools and services chosen to build an app, typically covering the database, authentication, payments, and hosting layers.
- .md file
- A Markdown file, a plain-text format with light formatting syntax that's easy for both humans and AI tools to read and edit.
- Wireframe
- A rough visual layout of an app's screens that shows where elements go before any real styling or branding is applied.
- Localhost
- A web address that points only to your own computer, used to preview an app in your browser while it's still in development and not yet visible to anyone else.
- Brand kit
- A short document defining a project's visual identity, including color palette, typography, and logo usage, so every screen feels consistent.
- Component library
- A collection of pre-designed interface pieces like buttons, forms, modals, and navigation bars that developers reuse across projects to keep the look polished and consistent.
- Figma
- A browser-based design tool widely used for building app interfaces, wireframes, and component libraries that can be shared with collaborators by link.
- Modal
- A pop-up window inside an app that appears over the main page to handle a focused task, such as a checkout flow, without navigating away.
- Whop
- A platform that provides drop-in infrastructure for digital businesses, including embeddable checkout, payouts, chat, and user authentication, so builders don't have to code these systems from scratch.
- SDK
- Software development kit. A bundle of code and tools a service provides so developers can plug its features, like payments or chat, directly into their own app.
- API key
- A secret string of characters that lets one app authenticate and talk to another app's service, proving it has permission to use it.
- Webhook
- An automatic notification one service sends to another when something happens, such as a successful payment, so the receiving app can react in real time.
Things they pointed at.
Lines you could clip.
00:00
“Claude Code is one of the most powerful tools that I have ever used.”
02:00
“Almost nobody is offering to help them build software that their audience could use. And to me, that is your opportunity.”
09:43
“Most AI-built apps look AI built. If we are charging six thousand dollars per month, it cannot feel like a toy.”
12:51
“Try vibe coding a real chat system from scratch and see how fast it gets complicated.”
21:00
“AI did not just make coding faster. It compressed the entire workflow.”
Word for word.
metaphorstory
00:00Cloud Code is one of the most powerful tools that I've ever used. Within my first week using it, I figured out how to automate my $1,000,000 per year software agency. Each client project of ours used to take a project manager, a designer, and a developer about six weeks.
00:15But now, one person with AI can do it in under an hour even if they have no technical expertise. So in this video, I'm gonna show you the exact agency model that I used to make multiple 7 figures, and then I'm gonna show you how to use Claude code to automate the service delivery and build a $10,000 software MVP.
00:34From 2022 to 2025, I ran a software development agency that built software apps for creators with an audience. When we ran our agency, we basically had two ways to structure deals.
00:45First, we would charge our clients a monthly subscription, usually around $6,000 per month to build their app. Or second, if we really believed in the idea, we would take equity in the app instead. The monthly clients gave us cash flow so we could pay the bills and then the equity clients gave us long term upside in case one really worked out.
01:01And that thesis has worked out really well. One of the apps we had equity in was Atlas AI, and it's now making over $500,000 per month.
01:09Now, I'm no longer part of the day to day team, so I really can't take any credit for its success, but I can show you why the model works so well. That's because the founder is Sebastian Georgiou. He is an ecommerce YouTuber with over a million subscribers.
01:20Now, besides the obvious baked in distribution he had from this channel, he had a few other unfair advantages that really mattered. First, he was his own customer. He had been doing ecommerce for years, so he deeply understood the problem that he was solving, and that made his product intuition really strong.
01:36Second, his network was massive, and interestingly, the main growth channel wasn't even his own YouTube channel. It was actually the other YouTube channels that he could sponsor.
01:45When you're a peer in a niche, people reply, people want to work with you, they give you favorable rates, and you get distribution way faster, and that's how we scaled. Partnering with creators to build software for them is advantageous because they understand the problem, they have distribution, and they have a network that can help you scale.
02:02And I really don't see too many people talking about this. Everyone is really trying to sell creators like short form editing, growth operating, or helping them sell paid courses, but almost nobody is offering to help them build software that their audience could use.
02:15And to me, that is your opportunity. If I was in college or starting a new business from scratch, this is what I'd do. I would pick a specific niche and look for educational creators in that space.
02:25Sebastian was in e commerce, but you could find a finance YouTuber and build them a budgeting app. You could find someone in video editing and build them a VFX marketplace. You could find someone in fitness and help them build a coaching tracker.
02:38Just pick a niche that interests you and send creators a simple message like, hey, I'd be down to build you a custom VFX marketplace. I'm a software developer and would be happy to build it in exchange for equity. It'd just be worth a quick chat.
02:49And by the way, creators do actually see your DMs. People think that if someone has a huge audience, they'll never actually read your message. That's just not true.
02:56As a creator myself with over 500,000 subscribers on YouTube, I maybe get five DMs a day, maybe. Today, I got three, and I read every single one of them. I have hired a lot of people from cold DMs, and if I don't, it's simply because I probably just don't need what that person is offering, not because I didn't see it.
03:14It. So there are really two takeaways here. One, large creators see your DMs.
03:19And two, there's really no one offering to build them their own apps. Now, if you're new, I wouldn't over complicate the deal structure. There's really three ways that you could go.
03:26Option one is a monthly build fee, maybe anywhere from 2 to $6,000 per month depending on your skill level, the scope of the project, and how much proof you have. Option two is equity.
03:37If you really believe in the creator or the idea, then you can just build it in exchange for ownership. And then option three, which is probably my favorite, and that's a hybrid, a smaller monthly fee plus upside in the app. That way, you're not broke while you're building, but you still have exposure if the app really works.
03:53So that is the whole model. Creators bring the problem, the audience, and the distribution. You bring the software, the AI workflow, and execution.
04:00Now let me show you how this actually works because what makes this so exciting is that you don't need to be a senior engineer to run this business model. When we built software MVPs for clients, it usually took us around six weeks, and it usually happened in three phases. First, we needed to build a product requirement doc so we actually knew what we needed to build.
04:19Second, we actually needed to design the app. Then third, we started coding the back end functionality and started connecting everything together. That typically took a three person team around six weeks.
04:29But now, I'm gonna show you how to build a premium software MVP as a non technical person with Claude code in under an hour. The key is to automate each phase separately. So phase one is the PRD.
04:41When you start working with a new client, the first thing you need to do is make a list of everything they want to build. That is basically what a PRD or a product requirement document is. A PRD is a clear document that breaks down what the app is, who it's for, what features are needed, and what the first version should look like.
04:56Usually, this requires a project manager to talk to the client, ask questions, take detailed notes, and then write out a long document listing every feature we need to build. But now, we can automate pretty much all that process with AI. There are four steps.
05:09Get on a call with the creator, record the call with an AI notetaker, transcribe the meeting, then have AI turn that transcript into a PRD. I'm using Zapier for this because it's the easiest way for non technical people to automate this workflow. They also partnered with me on this video, but this is genuinely the tool I would use here because it's simple and fast.
05:28So let's build this in sixty seconds. So I'm gonna go to Zapier. I'm gonna hit create a new workflow.
05:33And then we're actually gonna search for fellow AI which is the AI notetaker I use. We're gonna connect our accounts, and then we're gonna choose new AI note as the trigger event. So now Zapier can access each meeting transcript from Fellow.
05:47So next, we need to send that transcript to Claude. So I'm gonna add a new step. I'm gonna select Anthropic.
05:53I will connect my account. And then I'm gonna choose the send message event. Okay?
05:59Next, we just need to hit configure. And then in the user message section, I'm gonna hit slash. And then I'm gonna select the transcript data point from Fellow.
06:08Okay? So this is how we send the call transcript to clot. Next, we need to add a system prompt so the AI actually knows how to turn the transcript into a PRD specifically.
06:18So I'm gonna paste in this prompt that I'll link in the description for free. Basically, it just says that you're a senior product manager and technical lead. You will be given a raw transcript of the client discovery meeting for a software MVP.
06:29I need you to convert it into a clear, build ready PRD. Okay? Now, there's a lot more underneath this.
06:35One thing I wanna point out is that there's a pro tip here that you can actually add your preferred tech stack into this prompt. So then when we give this to Claude to code it later, it automatically knows what back end, database, authentication payments, and hosting stack we want to use.
06:49But more on that later. Now, let's just select the cloud model I want to use and the PRD step is ready. The last thing we need to do is send the output to a Google Drive folder so we stay organized.
06:59It's gonna output this into a dot m d skill file so it's easy for AI to read. So I'm gonna add another step. I'm gonna click Google Drive and then I'm gonna choose the create folder event.
07:09Okay? I already made a folder in my drive called client PRDs so I'm gonna choose that. And then to stay organized, I'm gonna click folder name.
07:18I'll hit slash. And I'm actually gonna choose the attendee or the meeting title data from Fellow. That way it names the folder after each client or project.
07:28So now I just need one quick final step to actually save the PRD inside of the folder we just created. So again, I'm gonna add a step. I'm gonna choose Google Drive and choose create file from text.
07:40For the folder, we're gonna choose the folder ID we just created. For the file name, let's do something like PRD plus. Then I'll do slash the title from the fellow meeting.
07:51And now, the most important part, we need to actually pull the file content from Claude. So the output aka the PRD. So to do this, we'll just hit slash.
07:59We're gonna select Claude. And we're gonna choose response content. So it's the response that Claude gave us.
08:05Now, we just need to hit publish. And just like that, we can turn client meetings into beautifully written PRDs on autopilot. So I built this earlier and to give it a test, spun up a Google Meet on my calendar.
08:15I started the meeting. I hit record with Fellow, and then I just kinda talked through the features of a VFX marketplace, and then I ended the meeting. And now, when I look at Zap, I can see each step is firing.
08:26And if I go to my Google Drive, I can see the folder was created and the PRD is sitting right there. So phase one is done. We have a beautifully written PRD.
08:34And now, anytime I hop on a call with any future clients, I can just record that and immediately after the call, it's going to filter through everything we said and build a PRD that we can then just add to Cloud Code and have AI build for us. It's time for phase two. We're actually gonna start designing our app with AI.
08:50I'm gonna do this in Cloud Code by actually turning that PRD into a visual wireframe and get it a working app preview.
08:57So for this example, I'm gonna build a visual effects marketplace for a cinematography creator. Let's just assume the creator has a large audience of filmmakers they wanna help their audience find and buy VFX assets, overlays, and basically different editing packs.
09:11So I downloaded that PRD from my Google Drive. Now I'm gonna open the Claude app on my computer. I'm gonna click the code tab.
09:18I'm gonna upload the file, and then I'm gonna tell Claude to build this app for me based on the attached PRD, create a local host link so I can preview the app, and then hit enter. After a few minutes, Claude gives me a local host link so I can see what it looks like on my browser. So I'll click it, and now I can see that it built a pretty solid marketplace with the core features that I asked for.
09:39But if I click around, I see a big problem. Most AI built apps look AI built.
09:47You know, they have that generic low quality vibe coded feel and like the layout exists, the buttons are working, and the pages are here, but it does not feel premium. Okay? And if we're building software for a creator with a real audience and we're charging $6,000 per month, it .
10:03Okay? So to make the app feel premium, I need to do two things. I need a brand kit and a component library.
10:10Okay? These will give the app an elevated feel and I can reuse these on every project in the future. Getting a brand kit, super simple.
10:17I'm just gonna go to Canva. I'm gonna hit templates and I'm gonna search brand guidelines.
10:22Now I'm just gonna look for one that I like. This one looks cool. And then I'll just go ahead and hit customize and then I'll save the brand guideline as a PDF on my computer.
10:30So this is gonna help me with the aesthetic, like the color palette and the typography. But now I wanna make sure that all the components in my app feel premium, so I'm gonna use a component library. Component libraries are collections of pre designed interface elements like buttons, drop down menus, cards, navigation bars, forms, dashboards, and modals that developers can reuse across software projects.
10:52So this can really become your style as a development agency. There are a ton of free component libraries to choose from on Figma. So I'm just gonna find one that fits the look that I want, and then I'm gonna open it up in Figma, and I'll just copy this Figma link.
11:04Okay? Now I'm gonna go back to Claude, and I'm gonna say redesign the app using this brand kit and this component library, and then I'm gonna upload the PDF from my brand kit, and I will paste that Figma link here, and I'll hit enter. And after a few iterations, the app already feels a lot less like a prototype and more like a real product.
11:23You can tell there's like a cohesive brand here that really feels familiar to videographers and cinematographers. Okay?
11:30This like black look, these sharp edges. If I even click on the checkout modal, can see how much more clean that looks, how the description looks better laid out, where the profiles are being displayed. I just think this is a much better feeling marketplace.
11:42And when you're building software at the end of the day, it's all about your taste and how good your product makes people feel. Okay? So I really want you guys to understand that.
11:51AI can give you the first version quickly, but the brand kit and the component library are what's gonna make it feel polished enough to really show to a client. So now that we have the UI designed, it's time to actually build the core functionality of the platform. And so, yeah, this all looks good but like I can click around but none of this stuff really actually works.
12:07So we can make it actually work. So since I'm building a marketplace, there are really two core things that I need. First, we need to set up payments so customers can transact on the marketplace.
12:17And then second, I want a chat system so buyers can actually talk to sellers about their orders. K? So and this is where most people get confused about AI coding.
12:25Like AI can make it easier to build the first version of an app but it does not magically solve the hardest parts of building real software. Try vibe coding a real chat system from scratch and see how fast it gets complicated. Like, at first, it's gonna feel simple.
12:39You send a message, the other person receives it, done. But then real users show up and you need real time delivery, notifications, file uploads, emojis, permissions, moderation, performance.
12:50It gets so confusing. And then the app needs to stay fast when like hundreds of thousands of people are using it at the same time. K?
12:56So these are not just features. These are infrastructure problems. And that is where AI coding tools still have limits.
13:03So Cloud Code and Cursor can help you build the app way faster, but if you ask them to build your own payments or your own messaging system from scratch, you're gonna run into problems. So the smarter move is not to ask AI to build every piece of infrastructure from zero.
13:16The smarter move is to just tell AI to plug in pre built components. So for this marketplace, I'm gonna embed WAP's pre built components for the hard infrastructure. Specifically, payments and chat.
13:27So first, let's set up payments. Since this is a marketplace, sellers are gonna need to be able to list products, collect payments, and then actually withdraw that money into their bank account.
13:37Okay? AKA pay ins and payouts. To set this up, I'm just gonna paste this prompt into Claude, basically saying I wanna use WAP's API to set up pay ins and payouts for my marketplace.
13:47Please use their SDK to embed checkout for every listing on my site so sellers can list their products, collect payment, and withdraw to their bank. And as I said before, all my prompts are in the description for free. So once I put that into Claude, it's gonna give me the steps I need to follow to get this set up.
14:01That's the nice thing about AI. It will just tell you step by step what you need to do. But really, I just need to go create a business on WAP.
14:07I'm gonna name it VFX Marketplace. I'm gonna hit the developer section. And then I'm gonna create an API key, set all permissions, and give it a name.
14:18I got that API key. I'm just gonna put this in Claude. And then it says I also need to get my business ID.
14:24So I'm just gonna go ahead and grab this from the URL on my dashboard. So it's just biz underscore long code.
14:31I will put that in Claude and I will hit enter. Okay. And then lastly, this thing, I just need to create a webhook secret key.
14:39So I'll go create a webhook. I'm gonna add the payments, memberships, and payouts permissions.
14:45And I'll hit create and I'll copy that inside of Cloud as well. Okay. Cool.
14:49So I just hit enter. It's running. And if we look at the site, you'll see that it looks like I can buy my products now.
14:55But if I actually hit purchase, it's just gonna say congrats. It never actually collected money.
15:00So we're setting this up right now. So WAP's embedded checkout will actually work in a platform. All of the checkouts are now embedded.
15:07If I go to a listing, I'm gonna refresh. We should see WAP's embedded checkout model so all the sellers can accept payment with credit card, crypto, cash app, and more just natively on the marketplace.
15:17Okay? So just like that, we have real payments infrastructure set up and people can actually get paid for the products. So it's awesome.
15:24It's really easy to do. And obviously, this is not just for a VFX marketplace. You could use this to create a marketplace like eBay or Airbnb, maybe a job listing platform like Fiverr, an affiliate network, a coaching marketplace, really whatever you want to do.
15:38Just really anything that involves people coming onto a platform and earning money, you can use this. So next, I wanna create a DM system so buyers can contact sellers and really just message them about their product. And this can also just be used for customer support if people aren't happy.
15:51So to embed the chat, again, just gonna use another prompt that I have, and that is just gonna basically say, I wanna add a DM feature where buyers can message sellers about their listing. I'm gonna put that into Claude, and this one should be pretty quick.
16:02There we go. Yeah. That was just a few minutes.
16:04And we have a message seller button on the checkout page. So now we have a real chat experience so sellers and buyers can message each other. But we actually need one more thing for this to actually work, and that is an account creation and sign in flow.
16:16People need to make their profiles so we know who can message who. So this is also called onboarding, and that's where I'm gonna start. And onboarding really matters because it's the user's first real experience with the product.
16:26If the flow is confusing, your conversion rate dies before people ever experience the core product. So It doesn't matter how good your product is, if your onboarding sucks, they never get there. K?
16:34So instead of guessing what the best onboarding flow in the world is, I'm just gonna take inspiration from the best apps in the world. And to do this, I'm gonna use a website called mobbin.com. Mobbin basically shows you the biggest software companies in the world onboarding flows page by page with screenshots of everything.
16:50So really all we have to do is find a company similar to ours, then we're gonna tell Claude to create a similar flow. Now, I'm gonna use my own design and I do not want to steal their IP, but there really is no harm in using the same general steps for account creation that the biggest software companies in the world use because they've invested millions of dollars in optimization.
17:07So I'm gonna search shop because it's a cool marketplace. I'm gonna hit flows and I'm gonna find the onboarding flow.
17:15Then I'll just take a few screenshots of each step. I'm gonna put this into Claude and I'm gonna say create an onboarding flow for our marketplace inspired by the structure.
17:23Alright. So now that step by step flow is created. Now we actually need to add the functionality of creating accounts.
17:29And to do that, we need to set up something called user authentication or OAuth. To set up authentication, I'm just gonna tell Claude, hey, help me set up authentication using WAP OAuth.
17:39Then again, I just follow the steps Claude gives me. I'm gonna go to the developer section again. I'm gonna hit create app this time.
17:45And then I'm gonna hit this tab up here called auth, A 0 U T H. And then we need to create the redirect URL. I'm just gonna paste in the local host link for now.
17:55It eventually it's gonna have to be my real domain but we'll do that later. Now I'm just gonna copy and paste the keys back into Claude and it should be able to get everything set up. And just like that, we now have our account creation and sign in flow functioning.
18:07So now users and sellers can come onto the platform, make an account and actually start using the marketplace. That is most of the functionality. People can create accounts, they can list products and actually collect payments and they can actually start talking to each other through the embedded chat.
18:21Now, the last two things we need to set up are actually our database and our hosting. So your database is where you store all your user information and data. For this app, that means sellers, product listings, purchases, categories, and whatever else the marketplace needs.
18:34Your database is very important And for this, I'm gonna use Supabase really just because it's very simple to set up. So I'm just gonna tell Claude, create my database using Supabase.
18:43Set up the schema for users, seller profiles, product listings, purchases, categories, and saved products. This way that when someone actually uploads a listing on the platform, it gets saved. So as usual, after I put that prompt in, I'm just gonna follow the steps Claude gives me.
18:56And if you're ever feeling stuck, you guys do remember that the Claude Chrome extension can just take control of your computer and do the steps for you. So it's not gonna tell you that, but if you just say, hey, just use the Chrome extension and do it for me, it will. So I'm gonna go ahead and create a super base project.
19:14I will add my environment variables, run the database migration, and now my database is set up.
19:22So the final step is really hosting the site. Okay? Up until now, I've been using local host to build the app.
19:29And if you try to share that link with anyone else, they'll not be able to open it because it's running locally on your computer. Hence why it's called local host. So to host a site and get it on a custom domain, I like to use Vercel because it's really easy.
19:42So I'm just gonna tell Claude, help me host this site on Vercel and connect it to a custom domain. So I already have a Vercel account and I'm already connected to the CLI. It's very simple.
19:51You just copy a code right when you make your account and put it into Claude. Now Claude has already made me my project. And then I'm just gonna go to domains.
19:59I'm And actually going to look for the domain I want. Okay. So it's purchase.
20:03Okay. So I purchased the domain. Now I just need to connect the domain and verify it.
20:07Just like that, my client's VFX marketplace is live. So hosting is very important. It's how you get your app off of Cloud Code and onto the live internet.
20:16And it's where all of the images that your sellers upload to promote their product will live. So hosting is very important. That is literally the first MVP that used to take my software agency six weeks to get into one of our client's hands, and every one of those projects required a team of three to four people.
20:34We had a project manager hop on the call to actually scope out the work and build the PRD. Then he would send that to our UI designer who'd have to manually design every single page in Figma. Then that Figma file got sent to our developers who would code the site and manually set up the database authorization payments chat and hosting.
20:54This is the part that's hard to overstate. AI did not just make coding faster, it .
21:03My development agency's profit margins were roughly 55% and the main expense was headcount and this changes that drastically.
21:13And again, like I said, now that I've created the accounts for my tech stack in this first project, Clog can actually help me create new projects with the exact same design style, the same stack, and the same core infrastructure every time in the future. And to do that, all I have to do is embed my stack into every PRD inside of Zapier.
21:31Yeah. In theory, I could get on a call with a client, record the conversation, turn that call into a PRD, send that PRD to Claude, and have Claude build the entire first version of the app with my design style and my stack already baked in.
21:46That is what automated AI services actually look like. That means one person can now deliver what used to require a full agency team. And if you pair that with creators who already have distribution, you're not just building random software anymore.
22:00You're building something with built in demand. So I don't know about you, but to me, this is a really cool opportunity. AI helps you build faster.
22:07Creators can get you distribution. And then WAP just has all the infrastructure for you to use. Now, I didn't talk about getting customers in this video because I actually made a full course on how to automate your outreach with AI.
22:18That will be the first link in the description below. It's completely free to watch and it actually is a full course on how to start your own AI powered service business start to finish. It's one of the best pieces of content I think I've ever made and again, it's 100% free with the most up to date way to run an AI first agency.
22:34So again, that's in the description. Other than that, I hope you got value from today's video. Have a wonderful day, and I'll see you in the next one.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
Brett Malinowski opens mid-demo, Claude Code terminal filling the screen, then delivers the line that sets the stakes: he automated a seven-figure software agency inside a week. What follows is the actual playbook, phase by phase, with every tool and prompt shown live.
Named ideas worth stealing.
00:37model
Creator Agency Model
- Problem intuition (they are their own customer)
- Distribution (their audience + peer network)
- Network (peers sponsor and scale the app)
Partner with educational creators who bring unfair advantages: they understand the problem, have built-in demand, and can scale faster than a cold-start SaaS.
Steal forMCN+ pitch; any offer framed around pairing technical execution with creator distribution
04:06model
3-Phase AI Agency Workflow
- Phase 1: Automate PRD from client call (Fellow + Zapier + Claude)
- Phase 2: Design with brand kit + component library (Canva + Figma + Claude Code)
- Phase 3: Plug in pre-built infrastructure (Whop + Supabase + Vercel)
Collapse a 6-week 3-person workflow into a 1-hour solo build by automating intake, standardizing aesthetics, and embedding pre-built infrastructure.
Steal forJoeFlow agency pitch; MCN+ services tier; done-with-you productized agency
03:21list
Deal Structure Options
- Monthly build fee ($2K-$6K/mo)
- Equity (ownership in exchange for build)
- Hybrid: small monthly + equity upside (Brett's favorite)
Hybrid keeps the agency solvent during the build while preserving long-term upside.
Steal forLFB Line pricing structure
16:43concept
Mobbin Onboarding Research Method
Use Mobbin to screenshot onboarding flows from top apps in your category, then tell Claude to create a flow inspired by that structure.
Steal forAny new product onboarding; MCN+ member onboarding UX
How they asked for the click.
22:05link
“I actually made a full course on how to automate your outreach with AI. That will be the first link in the description below. It is completely free to watch.”
Soft end-card CTA after full build demo. Earns the click by delivering the entire workflow first. Free course reduces friction.
Visual structure at a glance.
