You can do this. Here's exactly how it works.

You will also use the terminal — the plain window where you type commands instead of clicking. It looks intimidating and isn't: every command you'll ever need is written out for you, ready to copy and paste. Nobody expects you to memorize anything.

That's genuinely the complete list. No dev experience. No technical background. No secret prerequisite hiding at the bottom. People who've run businesses, managed clients, sold services — people exactly like you — have built working platforms from this starting point.

Claude Code is an AI developer that lives in your terminal. You type what you want in plain English; it writes the code, creates the files, sets up the database, and tells you what it did. Think of it as a developer who can read a 200-page blueprint and build everything in it, step by step, asking you to review before moving on. The Build Pack is that blueprint. Claude Code reads it and builds your platform — pausing after each stage so you stay in control.

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1. Step 01

   You connect and deploy

   Inside the portal: connect GitHub, Vercel, and Neon — one click each. Name your platform. Press Deploy. Your live site is up in minutes. No ZIP file. No folder to unzip. No files to move around.

2. Step 02

   You open the repo in Claude Code

   Your private GitHub repo was created automatically. Clone it, open it in Claude Code. One command to install Claude Code if you haven't already — our walkthrough covers it.

3. Step 03

   You give it one instruction

   Something like: “Read the project brief and build this platform stage by stage. Pause after each stage so I can review.” That's genuinely the whole prompt.

4. Step 04

   It builds. You watch and approve.

   The agent works through the build plan — login system first, then the database, then the screens. After each stage it stops and tells you what it did. You say “continue” when you're happy.

5. This is the moment most people describe as the turning point.

   Not when it's done. When it's working for the first time — login screen, database, real pages — and you realize you didn't write a line of it. That's when “I wonder if I could do this” becomes “I'm doing this.”

6. Step 05

   You see your platform running

   By the end of the first session there's a working platform on your own computer, at an address only you can see. That moment — seeing it real — is when most people stop being scared of this.