How To Build A Software Business With AI This Weekend. Zero Coding Skills Required.

25:10This is where we start. If you skip this step right here, if you skip this step, you are asking for trouble because it's going to require you to build everything twice. You're going to put it up into the code editor, Winsurf, and it's going to give you something that you don't like. So let's create this PRD. How do we do this? Well, it's very simple, actually. And I'm going to give you a script. The first thing we want to do is we want to go into Claude and we want to make sure that we create a project. As you can see, I have a lot of projects here. I have projects on creating scripts for the podcast.

25:41I want to refine my scripts. I have investments. I've travel guides. I have business coaching a project. I have poker coach. This is actual a poker coach. Claude is my poker coach. Spoken is the project I created, right? All these are different projects. So you're going to create a new project. When you create a new project, you're basically creating a place where you're going to work and it will remember all the stuff that you need to know. So we're going to create a new project. Okay. We're going to click new project and we're going to name this project. So we're going to call this, you know, project X.

26:12Okay. Whatever your project is called, you're going to call it whatever your app is called. And then you're going to say what you want this project to do for you. You can write something like as simple as you're going to be my technical co-founder. I'm creating an app using Windsurf, and I want you to be able to create clean prompts so that I have a bug-free environment and I can create this product quickly. We're going to start with a PRD and then move on to the prompts. So you can just write that, for example, and then create project. So we're going to create the project. Now we have a project.

26:41We can now do the first prompt. Now, what do we write in this prompt, this first prompt? Now, it's very simple. We can just simply use this prompt that I'm going to put for you here. If you're watching on YouTube, we'll put it in the description. And basically this prompt is just telling Claude, I want to build an MVP for a software product this weekend. You're just telling exactly what you want. It's like a genie. Here is the problem I'm solving, and you can insert the problem that you're solving, two to three sentences. Here's the target user, right, you know, who the target user is. Here's a core feature of the MVP.

27:11What's the one feature that matters? Okay, and then please help me create this product requirements document, the PRD, okay? I need clearer descriptions of what the app does. I need the core user flow. this is basically to you telling a developer, this is what I want this to look like. This is what I wanted to do, right? The data model, here's the tech stack. I have a preferred tech stack and includes the products I talked about. So you could just rip off mine. That's fine. And then the specific screens or pages of the MVP that needs to be there, like a login screen, you know, all that kind of stuff.

27:43It's going to understand what to do. You don't need to even actually tell it what screens to do. And number six, what is explicitly out of scope of the MVP? This is like out of bounds. We don't want to go beyond this. We don't need all that stuff. You want to keep the scope tight, right? And this is all you have to say and say in one weekend, I'm a non-technical founder using Windsurf AI so that it knows how to prompt for Windsurf. And that's it. Pretty, pretty simple. So let me give you an example of what this produces so you see for yourself. So I'm literally going to just dictate using an app called Whisperflow.

28:13So what problem am I solving? I don't love all the project management products out there. I want to create a project management software that is specifically for podcasts or podcast producers that makes it easy to produce a podcast step by step, small businesses that run podcasts, solo founders, or even small podcast teams. The core feature is a detailed Kanban board like Trello that allows people to work through the process of creating a podcast, making sure that it's easy to follow and people are notified when each step is moved along with the cards. Okay, I'm making things up here. I don't even know if this is something that people want.

28:54I haven't validated it yet, but right now I just want to give you an example. Let me hit send. And as you can see, Claude has generated a detailed PRD, which is great. If you look at here, it's actually saying, hey, I made some choices for you. You could push back on them and I can update the PRD for you. And it just gave you a real MVP. And then on the right here, you can literally copy and paste this. This is all you have to do. It even named it, right? Name the product Podflow, right? And it has all the information that you require in a PRD, like what the app does, the user flow, the data model, all the technical stuff that you need to have.

29:32It understands what you need to have and it produces it for you. So you can literally just hit copy, okay? And then go to Windsurf. and then in my windsurf like this is one of my projects that i already have going but in my windsurf i can just hit paste and just send it to windsurf and windsurf will start building it's crazy so you could literally just go right to windsurf here i created a new you know this is my old project here so i'm gonna create a new project here call it project x oh actually i'll call it podflow it's called podflow now and i'm gonna select the folder on my computer i'm just going to go to documents, new folder, call it pod flow, create, because it's going to create the actual app on your computer first, and then you're going to deploy it on the internet using Vercel and all that kind of stuff.

30:19So here we go, pod flow, and that's it. So now I have my WinSup project. Here we go. And I can literally just paste my PRD right here. And I'm going to just go ahead and then hit send. And when I send it away, it's going to go and do it. Now I have a field full prd it shows you step by step what it's doing right it says hey i got what you sent me and here are all the steps and this is what i'm doing right now step one step two step three it's literally building it for you super simple so when surf is building you watch what it does you just accept when it asks you to accept it's very very easy things may break you might get bugs.

31:00That's okay. Guess what happens? You go back to Claude and you say, hey, Claude, I got this bug. It's telling me there's an issue. You screenshot it. You send it to Claude. Claude says, sure, give Windsurf this prompt. You give it the prompt. It fixes the bug. It's that simple. And by the way, this is completely normal. Anytime you build any kind of software with AI or without AI, you're going to have bugs. And bugs basically just mean things just didn't work out. There's something broken in the code. Missed calls and slow follow-ups are silent killers for your business. And that's exactly how businesses leave money on the table without ever realizing.

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32:58Plus, Helix and Steinhoffel's are offering 20 % off all mattress orders for our listeners. Please visit helixsleep.com to find your nearest location. Remember to ask a team member about their selection of award-winning Helix Sleep mattresses. Eligible items are in stock and available for free local delivery. That's helixsleep.com to find the store nearest you and ask about Helix Sleep. With Helix and Steinhoffel's, better sleep starts now. The next step is we're going to kick our database to Superbase. Guess what? This is super simple and you don't really need to understand why you need this. It basically just stores any data that the user needs to use your product.

33:37Now, I'm not going to tell you how to do this because there are many steps and you're going to forget and you don't need to know from me. All you need to do is go back to your project manager. Go to Claude. Hey, Claude, I need to connect my app to Supabase. How do I do this? And it will give you a prompt that you can put into Windsurf. It will give you the steps to do inside of the Supabase website. Guess what? You're going to use Supabase a lot because every time you create a feature, you're going to need a data table so that the data is stored somewhere. Now, there's a lot of technical mumbo-jumbo.

34:09How do you create a data table? Do not worry about it. Why? Because Windsurf will create the data table for you. It will create the code and say, hey, here's a data table. Copy it. Go into Supabase. Go to the SQL editor, and it will show you step-by-step how to get to that. And you're going to paste it. And you're going to create that data table. I'm telling you, you just follow the instructions that AI gives you. And you're going to have a lot of fun because you're going to be learning a lot along the way. You're going to be actually getting your hands dirty and realizing, hey, I'm a developer now.

34:38This is crazy. Now, there's two things that I want to wrap your head around. Do not get overwhelmed. This is very simple. When you're building out your app, you first build it on your computer. It's not out on the internet yet. You're building it on your computer, and then you're going to deploy it to the world once it's ready. Once you've tested it, once you know it works, then you can put it on a URL, on a domain, and people can access it. So how do you actually see what your app looks like as Winsurf is building it? Well, you're going to actually, remember what you saw? I was creating a folder in my computer to create the app.

35:11Well, there's a way to access all that code and then show you what it looks like. And it's called localhost. So if I go to my screen right now, you'll see that this is my app. But I'm not on spokenhq.com. I'm on localhost 3000. This is where Winsurf decided to build out this app. And I'm basically seeing this app on my actual local machine. And this is where I can look at things and say, oh, I don't like this. I want to change that. And I can screenshot it and then create a prompt. More about that in a second. Okay. So this is just uses your local machine. And it's just like any other website.

35:48So if I go to dashboard, for example, it's going to prompt me to log into the app. And that's a login screen for, and then you'll have a login. That's why we needed the database, right? So the database is storing in Superbase. So I just wanted to show you that this is kind of where you see the code being created. Now, if you want to change something that you see, you don't go to Windsurf. You always go back to your buddy, Claude. For example, if I wanted to center, welcome back, sign in. I can just go ahead to Zite here and I can, this is my screen grabbing tool, and I can just grab this here and I can go ahead and then guess what?

36:22Go to Claude, go to my project, go here and then paste my screenshot and explain what the problem is. Say, hey, I don't like the fact that this thing is justified left. I want to justify it centered. I want to, this is the login page. Can you create a prompt so that Windsurf makes this change? And then it's going to produce a prompt for you. And then you go into Windsurf and you paste it. By always going to Claude first, you're going to minimize problems, bugs, issues, or Windsurf just not understanding exactly what you want. Claude is really going to make it super simple. Now, if you're going to attach a screenshot in Claude, make sure you attach it as well as a reference in Windsurf.

37:00so that way you have a much cleaner way to develop your product. Every time you want to make an edit, do this process. Screenshot, go into Claude, ask it to prompt the fix, and then create the prompt, pop that prompt into Windsurf. Before we move on, I just want to say that you have understood 80 % of all development. Okay, this is all it is. And most of your time is going to be spent doing this. Going to Claude, asking it to create a prompt, going to Windsurf, pasting that prompt, producing it. You go see on your local what it looks like. Okay, I like it. I don't like it. Move on. So here are five tips because you're going to spend a lot of time in that whole process to make your process a little easier.

37:38Number one, one task at a time. Never give windsurf ten instructions in one prompt. So this is why I like to go to Claude first to make it sure that it understands to keep it simple for windsurf, right? You want to do one task, one change at a time. You want to wait, you want to test and then move on. Why? Because you want to build upon broken code or build upon broken features. Tip number two, you're going to have some things that don't work when you test it after Windsor has created it. These are bugs, like I mentioned. It's not broken. It's just not working as expected. There's something wrong.

38:10So every time you go into Claude to create a prompt to fix a bug, be as descriptive as possible. Why doesn't it work? One of the features I like to do is like to right click on anything and do inspect element. Let me show what that looks like. So say, for example, something's not working here, like this button's not working. I could just right click on this screen on this browser screen and do inspect. OK, when I do inspect, it's going to just kind of move things over here. You're going to see all this code. Do not worry. Just go to console up here and you're going to see some errors that you can just literally copy and paste or just screenshot these errors.

38:43And from there, put it into a cloud so it understands what's happening on the back end. Tip three, when you put the prompt into Windsurf that cloud gave you and it maybe have a question or maybe he doesn't understand it, don't try to answer it right into Windsurf. Go back to Claude, tell Claude what Windsurf said, and then you go ahead and it will tell you how to clarify or how to help you to get through that hurdle. Or Windsurf gives you some instructions like how to set up the verse L and you don't understand these instructions. Go to Claude and say, I don't understand these instructions. Can you show me how to do this like I'm a five-year-old?

39:14And it will give you step-by-step instructions. Tip number four, Windsurf likes to overachieve, okay? It's gonna sometimes go outside the scope. So what you like to do is that you always tell Claude, hey, Claude, every time you give me a prompt, remind Windsurf not to go out of scope, not to do anything outside the PRD until I tell you otherwise, until you finish the minimal viable product, until you finish your product, its first version. And it will say this in the prompt so that when you pop it into Windsurf, it doesn't kind of go on its own. Tip number five, you want to commit to GitHub consistently.

39:47So as soon as something is working on your local and you've seen it and you like the way it looks and like the way it feels, make sure you just tell Windsurf, hey, deploy this or I want you to commit it to GitHub. And it will integrate with GitHub for you. And then therefore, it will automatically put the code in GitHub so that you have clean code up there that is working properly. So just so you understand the levels, there are three levels to developing code or deploying code. Level one is Claude is creating the prompts for you, okay? And then giving it to Windsurf. You're going to give it to Windsurf, and it's writing the code.

40:23Level two, this gets created on your local machine, right? You're going to get to test it like I showed you on local host. Once it's done like that, you're going to pop it into GitHub. You're going to, okay, it works. Goes to GitHub, and then level three is the code exists on the internet. And this is where Vercel comes in. And we're only going to get to this point or this stage once we're ready to show this to the world. Because once it's on the internet, it's out there. People can access it. Google will crawl it and it will index it. And that leads to the next step. How do we deploy with Vercel?

40:52I'm going to show you visually first so you can conceive what's happening here. So what does Vercel do? Well, Vercel is allowing you to do two things. It's combining your code and your database and allowing it to be accessed on a website, on the internet. So, for example, when people go to spokenhq.com, they can access the app and make it work. Okay. How does it pull? It pulls your code from GitHub, right? And it pulls your database from or communicates with your database from Supabase. And it allows your product to actually exist in the world. It's interesting how software is created. Basically, you build it on your computer, and then from there, you need to be able to make it available for the world.

41:38And that's what Vercel does. And Vercel is a great way for you to do this for free because they have a hobby plan. The good news is that Vercel, GitHub, all these are connected. They are integrated into Windsurf. So you can literally just tell Windsurf, I want to deploy to my live environment so I can see it on the internet. And if you're not sure how to word that, again, go back to Claude. And it will do that for you. It will connect with Vercel and it'll make sure that you can go ahead and find your actual app living on your domain, your website. Now, there are some configurations you're going to have to do with your domain so that your domain is pointing to the right place.

42:17It's very simple. You could just ask Claude and Claude will tell you what to do inside of GoDaddy and all the settings. And you do it once and it's over. Hey, if this episode is getting you thinking, is getting you fired up, you can't wait to start building. Awesome. Because I have another episode coming up that you're going to absolutely love and I want you to hit subscribe. It's all about how do you fire good people that are bad employees. This is never easy. So I want to give you some clear instructions on how to do it right. So you feel good about what you've done, but also do what's right for your company and the person you're letting go.

42:51Hit subscribe so you don't miss it. The next step is we need to charge money. You're creating an app and you're going to have to have a way to allow people to check out and buy your product. And this is where Stripe comes in. I absolutely love Stripe. I'm a big fan of Stripe. I've been using them for over a decade, and they are built for this type of thing. Now, you don't need to understand how to configure Stripe, but you do need to sign up for a Stripe account. It's absolutely free. It costs nothing, and you only charge when you have a transaction. And their transaction fee is very reasonable.

43:21I think it starts at 2.9%, 30 cents per transaction. And Stripe allows you to charge people so they They could use their credit card, and then that way they grab the money for you, and then they deposit it into your bank account. So how do you integrate Stripe so that you have an easy way to check out and have checkout pages and all kinds of stuff built in? Very simple. We go back to Claude, and we say, hey, Claude, I want to integrate my app with Stripe. Claude will then give you instructions. Hey, go into your Stripe account and give me this information. Why? Because it wants to create a prompt for you so that you can give it to Windsurf so you can add it to the code.

43:56so that Stripe is integrated with your product. The second thing you need is you're going to need a way to migrate the email addresses you're getting from people because you're going to maybe want to send them emails, reminders, offers, upgrades, whatever it might be. So I use Kit as my email marketing software, so you need to integrate with Kit. Again, how do we do this? Well, we make sure we have a Kit account, and then we go back to Claude and say, hey, Claude, I want to integrate with Kit. Show me how, give me the steps, give me the prompt for Wincer. and that's all you need to know from a technical point of view to build your MVP this weekend.

44:32And that's your mission. Build this thing so you can get in front of real people as fast as possible and let the market tell you what to do next, what feature you should build next, how you should price it, all kinds of stuff like that. So I want to give you a fail-safe plan when it comes to building your MVP this weekend. I'm going to give you a game plan, what to do each day. And let's start with Saturday morning. Saturday morning, you're going to identify the problem you're solving. You're going to create the PRD with Claude so that you have the foundation. In the afternoon, you're going to start building out the different pages and screens of your app with the features that are required so that you can be able to use this thing on your local machine.

45:11So you're going to prompt Claude to create the prompts and then paste it inside of Windsurf. In the evening, you're going to connect to Supabase, which is easy. You're going to sign up and then you're going to tell Claude, hey, I need to connect to Supabase using Windsurf and it will give you the right prompt. At night, you're going to test everything end to end on your local machine. You're using your local host to figure out what's right and what's wrong and what you need to fix tomorrow. And that's what you're going to do Sunday morning. You're going to fix bugs. You're going to polish. You're going to see what's not working and make sure everything is working.

45:41Midday on Sunday, you're going to deploy to Vercel. You're going to connect your domain and you're going to make sure that your app actually lives in the real world. Again, not sure how to do that. Go to Claude. It's going to give you the steps and it's going to give you the right prompts inside to Windsurf so you can paste it into Windsurf and it connects directly with Windsurf. In the afternoon, you're going to share your app that you built that has real functionality with five to ten real people you think would be interested in just trying it out for free. In the evening, you can create a simple survey using Google Forms and collect feedback so that you can know what to do next beyond the weekend.

46:17By the way, you don't actually need to charge money at this point. You after you kind of understood, okay, this is what I'm going to charge. This is how much it's going to be. You could just tell Claude right now, this is a free app. Let people to sign in or sign up with their name and email address and they'll create a password and all that kind of stuff. When I did that video a few months ago about how to build a SaaS in seven days, the response told me something. It told me that there's an appetite for more. People want to build things, but they're not really sure how to. I hope I showed you how simple it is and how you can just just get started.

46:53I haven't given you everything when it comes to building out a software company, but this is getting you the momentum you need to start learning on your own. And of course, come back to the podcast to find out how to make sure your business is profitable, how to make your first hires, how to make the most of the product that you have for your customers. But you have everything you need. If you have$40, you can build this thing this weekend. The window of opportunity for non-technical founders to compete in the software space has never been wider. The tools have never been more accessible. The cost has never been lower.

47:27If this episode gave you the blueprint you needed, go back and watch the episode that started it all. Can you build a profitable SaaS in seven days with just AI? It's more of the big picture and what's possible. And I think you would really love it. That episode shows you real world results of another app I built called Nikkie that was an incredible journey. This episode you just watched gave you the steps, But the one I did before shows you what's possible when you follow through. Thanks so much for checking out the$100 MBA show. Hey, get going, start building. And if you want a little bit of accountability, at me on social media.

48:02I'm pretty active on Instagram, at Omar Zinhome. When you are sharing your product with the world, I would love to see what you built. If you found today's episode helpful and you want more practical business lessons to help you start, grow, and scale your business, the best thing you could do is subscribe to this podcast. Hit subscribe or follow on your favorite podcast app, the one that you're using right now, whether it's Apple or Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. By hitting subscribe, you get our next episode automatically, and it's the best way to support the show. It's absolutely free, and it's a way for you to commit to growing your business.

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49:23Remember to ask a team member about their selection of award-winning Helix Sleep mattresses. Eligible items are in stock and available for free local delivery. That's helixsleep.com to find the store nearest you and ask about Helix Sleep. With Helix and Steinhoffel's Better Sleep starts now.