Teaching a non-developer to build her company's first app with AI
A children's safety startup had decades of expertise and a game to build, but no developer. Five hands-on sessions taught its innovation lead to build, edit and ship it herself.
Industry
Children's safety education
Team
Founder and innovation lead
What they bought
10-hour hands-on build training
Tools
Claude, VS Code, GitHub, Supabase, Cloudflare
Timeline
5 sessions in 1 week
The challenge
The team had decades of child-safety experience and a clear game design, but no developer and no agency budget. Anything holding children's data also had to protect their privacy from the first line of code.
What we did
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Align
Scoped a small first version, a parent portal that gates the kids' game, and set the privacy rules first: parents own the account and the app collects only what it needs.
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Integrate
Set up GitHub, VS Code and Claude on a Supabase backend with row-level security, then coached her to describe each change as a clear prompt and check it before it went live.
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Scale
Saved the brand rules as a reusable Claude skill so every new page stays on brand, and handed over a workflow she now runs and ships on her own.
The results
10 hrs
of hands-on training to a working first version
1 week
from setup to a parent portal ready for the first kids' feedback session
Measured from the session schedule and the team's build timeline.
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