The excuse that you’re not technical just expired.
I haven’t written a line of code since the early 2000s. In the last few months I’ve built six production apps for our company using Claude Code. All in use.
A live data dashboard that replaced Looker Studio — we’d outgrown it and would have hired a consultant to build something better. A vacation tracker that killed a $2,400/year subscription. A refund workflow tool that turned a 4-6 hour weekly process into 15 minutes. A courier management system. A support hub. A partner-facing delivery portal.
Our dev team builds internal tools every four to six months. The business needs them faster. So I stopped waiting.
The dashboard took a weekend. Eight or nine hours including learning the tools. The partner portal was faster — screen-capped our existing dashboard, told Claude what data to hide, gave it our API docs, said build. Done. Monday night the partner asked for a delivery address column. Minutes later, done again.
That change request in the old world? A ticket. A sprint. Weeks. Dev team pulled off the core product to solve an internal problem.
Now it’s minutes and nobody gets interrupted. The dev team stays focused on the platform. For a fast-moving startup, that’s the real win.
I’m a walking testament to a stupid guy doing something beyond his capacity in a normal day.
I have 25 years of knowing what a business needs. What data matters. What workflows are broken. Claude Code doesn’t care that I forgot SQL syntax decades ago. It cares that I can describe exactly what I want.
You’re paying subscriptions for software you could build in a weekend. You’re waiting on dev teams for tools you could ship yourself. You’re hiding behind “I’m not technical” like it still means something.
It doesn’t. Not anymore.