All the things C4C students have built.

A system that scans and triages her inbox, blocks time on her calendar, and generates a weekly report for each client. Took her from around 100 emails a day down to about 3.

A journalist used Claude Code to pull an archived blog through the Wayback Machine for an investigation she’d wanted to write for years, plus a personal life-organization HQ.

A verbal countdown timer she built in a day and now uses every day. Then a life-story photo-book site for her dyslexic daughter, set in a huge high-contrast font built for how her brain actually reads.

A call-in line to vent about heartbreak, plus a family-trip websiteI've really become someone who can, like, build shit, and not just, like, think about it... I feel like I'm more willing to fail at stuff than I've ever been.

It pulls her PDF bank statements straight into the spreadsheet she already used, and she does not pay for QuickBooks anymoreI really just wanted to make something that would import my PDF bank statements into the spreadsheet we already use... And I did it. It works. It was awesome.

A per-client editorial skill that generated a full podcast guest list for Daphne Oz in about 20 minutes, plus his first-ever websitestuff that used to take me, you know, days, if not weeks, I now get done in hours.

A chief-of-staff tool for organizing Lisa's dayi run it every morning, and it kind of helps me take a breather and recognize my schedule/priorities before i dive into my laptop abyss.

A one-click Substack-to-Spotify playlist generator. Then a toolchain that merged ten thousand photos from Tanzania across mismatched camera timezones back into one true timelineMeeting everyone and feeling like we just started a little family.

A YouTube metrics tool designed to not make you freak out every time you look at itThe biggest change wasn't learning a particular skill. It was moving from 'Can I even do this?' to 'Which of these ideas should I build first?' What a much nicer problem to have.

Six builds in 24 hours from zero terminal experience, three deployed by day 4, including a Dementia Care Resource Hub built live during a family SOS callI feel like I've been let out of jail.

A client's printed PDF rebuilt into a working mobile app in a day, plus a casting tool with a live admin dashboardI couldn't believe it went from a PDF a year ago to basically an app. And I did that all in a day.

The digital version of her analog oracle card deckliterally, when I was making it with a friend a few years ago, I was like, this will take $10,000 minimum and, like, 10 years to make, for sure.

A savings dashboard she built instead of impulse-buying an Oura RingThe urge to buy the ring disappeared into thin air. It took me less than 5 minutes.

A website she built for her parents' 50th anniversary party. Then Zephyr, a to-do app she spent an entire day on the completion animations for before building a single actual feature.

Desktop app wrapping a personal publishing tool, typewriter, idea combiner, and time-locking focus system. All local.

Automated follow-ups from call transcripts, AI stock research, and a puzzle game with swappable themes.

Password-protected team research portal plus an ordering site with A/B testing and Zapier integration.

Paste in a flight email or a hotel booking and it parses the date, time and address into a full itinerary, then pulls nearby restaurants and spots from the Foursquare API. It handles multi-night hotel stays, next-day landings and drive-time math for road trips. He built it for an Iceland trip. Then a context-aware chief of staff for his wellness platform, which folded Cursor, Typingmind agents, Perplexity and Claude into one system that keeps itself current as the business grows steadyandtrue.comEvery time we go on a trip, I'm the one who puts everything into spreadsheets. My family never looks at it.

A daily newspaper of one. He describes the kind of stories he wants, important plus weird plus funny, and Claude picks them. Stories carry a shelf life, today's, this week's, this month's, and stale ones fall off on their own. Then he started drawing the illustrations by handI've never had a newspaper that I actually enjoyed reading. But I always liked the feeling of it. And so now I have this.

A 6-month growth tracker she built for a branding client. The client submits her writing, logs how she feels about it, and tracks weekly progress, with an AI chat that suggests content directions from her own essays. Plus the Community Garden, an interactive home for her Reach Out Party communityWhat happens when a client actually follows a growth plan for 6 months? The data from that is the real product.

A script that OCRs Chinese PDFs, even scanned ones you cannot select text in, and translates them into natural English. Hours of manual translation became about five minutes, for a nonprofit collecting first-hand memories of Mao-era ChinaCompletely life changing. If I got nothing else out of this class and just got that, that alone would have been life changing.

macOS app that interrupts screen time with poems, koans, and grounding prompts. Multiple themes, ambient sounds generated with AI. Downloadable.

Personal brand site inspired by AOL Instant Messenger buddy lists and MySpace surveys. Writing, podcast, and AI-analyzed testimonials.

A startup fundraising deck with inline editing and PDF export, and the company raised funding during the cohort. Then a 3-year cost model for the business, revenue levers, P&L and capital planning, work that used to take a team of six.

Fed years of client feedback into AI to surface hidden patterns in coaching style and strengths.

Full command center GUI with multi-source task triage, skill inventory, time analytics, and automated prioritization. Pulls from notes, reminders, and email.

Daily system that scores your listening habits for adventurousness. Expand your taste by passing a quiz, buying the opposite album, or confessing to a critic. Miss the deadline and it auto-donates to charity.

Consolidated contacts from multiple platforms into one searchable database with export for email list segments.

Weekly meal planning with recipe database, fridge photo analysis, toddler safety flags, ADHD-optimized cooking steps, and shared shopping lists.

A morning alarm that triggers a planning conversation with AI in the terminal. Simple, local, used every single day. Then an AI chief-of-staff built around her actual habits, a meal planner, and paid Substack subscribers tied to co-working accessI turned 70 this week, and it's very late in life to be doing entrepreneurial stuff, but I'm really... I'm just doing it.