The brief
Pick something you would genuinely enjoy building. Two kinds of project work well:
- A game. A word puzzle, a trivia game, a choose-your-own-adventure, a daily challenge.
- A product you could build a brand around. A recipe finder, a gift picker, a habit tracker, a playlist namer.
The test: small enough to have a first version working by tomorrow, interesting enough that you’d tell a friend about it. You’ll spend the next three weeks with this thing, so pick something that makes you smile.
Why this matters
Every company starts as one person with an idea and a tool. You’re about to be both. The tool is Claude Code: an AI that can read, write and run things on your computer while you talk to it in plain English.
Where to start
You’ll be tempted to read about AI first. Don’t. Open Claude Code and tell it what you want to build. When it asks something you don’t understand, ask it to explain. When it does something you didn’t expect, ask why.
Getting lost is part of the course. The skill you’re building today is asking for help in a way that gets you unstuck.
If you finish early, ask Claude to make your first version a little more fun. Then save it.