Building a $1M SaaS with Claude Code - Day 10

🎁 GET MY FREE DESIGN PRINCIPLES DOC The exact doc I hand Claude so my app doesn't look AI-generated. I'm not a designer - so instead of telling AI "make it look nice," I give it the real rules designers use (spacing, contrast, type scale, thumb zones, the use-vs-skip trends) plus a paste-ready token starter. Drop it in, point Claude at a reference you like, and let it execute. 👉 Free in my Skool community: https://www.skool.com/volvex-ai-labs-... Can a regular person take a $100/month Claude Code subscription, an idea, and turn it into a SaaS users actually pay for? This is Episode 2 of me finding out, on camera. This isn't a step-by-step "click here" tutorial — it's a build-in-public journal. I'm building a real AI agent that answers a business's Instagram DMs in their own voice (WhatsApp and TikTok come later), from idea → working product → profitable business. This week the product got real: it went live answering actual DMs, got a full redesign, and moved to a real domain. But the meat of this episode is what I learned catching the mistakes AI makes - the ones that look completely finished and are quietly, totally broken. If you've ever thought "I'd build something with AI but I'm not a coder," this series is for you. 🧠 WHAT I LEARNED THIS WEEK (BUILDING WITH AI) 1. Test like a hostile stranger, not a proud founder - the bug that hid from every demo 2. AI ships decisions nobody made - my app let two accounts own the same Instagram 3. Let AI attack its own code - swarm to FIND bugs, single-thread to FIX them 4. Don't tell AI "make it look nice" - give it the real rules and references 5. Use AI to build little tools for your own workflow, not just the product 6. For platform apps the real wall isn't the code - it's the review (Meta App Review) ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 - Intro 0:42 - Development update 7:21 - Bug #1 The app doesn't see new messages 12:22 - Bug #2 Two different accounts connected to one Instagram 15:22 - Tip #1 Use agents swarm to audit your own app 17:38 - Tip #2 For proper UI design give AI references 20:18 - Tip #3 Have AI build tools for you, not just the product 21:40 - Meta App Review insights 26:17 - Outro 🔗 TOOLS MENTIONED Claude Code · GitHub · Next.js · Vercel · Supabase · Inngest · Stripe · Meta Graph API · cron-job.org (the pinger that drives the DM poller) · Glaido (voice-to-text) Subscribe to follow a regular guy turning $100 and an idea into a real business. #ClaudeCode #AICoding #BuildInPublic #VibeCoding #SaaS #AIautomation #IndieHacker #BuildWithAI