Email Triage.exe
100 emails a day → 3
Richelle D.
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.
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YOU'RE IN!!
Aug 2026 at 2:41 PM
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I recorded this for Soundarya on Aug 2026. Nobody else gets this one.
Hi Soundarya,
Please watch the video above. I made it for you and it has all of the details in it.
After you watch it, open Cohort 4 for the price, the dates, and how to take the seat.
alex
What you wrote on your application
“a super personal CRM so I can know what's happening with the people close to me”
22 August
“confident”
And you added
“I'm an author / event host / storyteller - https://curiousmaverick.com/about intrigued by this cohort!”
Questions I did not cover in the video, send them over. They come straight to me.
Email me →
31 things people made in six weeks.
Every one of them is on codeforcreatives.com. Nothing here is a mock-up.
Get your week back
Admin that used to eat the day, gone.
Mission Control.exe
One screen instead of six apps
Noor
Full command center GUI with multi-source task triage, skill inventory, time analytics, and automated prioritization. Pulls from notes, reminders, and email.
Morning Chief of Staff.exe
“I run it every morning”
Lisa Hair Konishi
A chief-of-staff tool for organizing Lisa’s day. Her words: "i 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."
Daily Agenda.exe
Used every single day
Eri Zeitz
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 access.
Meal Planner.exe
Photograph the fridge, get the week
Ann Wehren
Weekly meal planning with recipe database, fridge photo analysis, toddler safety flags, ADHD-optimized cooking steps, and shared shopping lists. Plus a password-protected team research portal and a personal CRM.
Screen Break.exe
Downloadable. A real Mac app.
Dennis Xiao
macOS app that interrupts screen time with poems, koans, and grounding prompts. Multiple themes, ambient sounds generated with AI. Downloadable.
Stop paying for it
Software you were renting, replaced in a week.
QuickBooks Killer.exe
Does not pay for QuickBooks anymore
Marjan Verstappen
It pulls her PDF bank statements straight into the spreadsheet she already used, and she does not pay for QuickBooks anymore.
Chinese Translator.exe
Hours → about five minutes
Tom Frank
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 China.
FIRE Savings Dashboard.exe
Built it in under 5 minutes, did not buy the ring
Isha Chitnis
A savings dashboard she built instead of impulse-buying an Oura Ring. Her words: "The urge to buy the ring disappeared into thin air. It took me less than 5 minutes."
AI Travel Planner.exe
Paste the booking email, get the trip
Rob Tourtelot
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.
steadyandtrue.com →Sell it to a client
Work people paid for, made during the six weeks.
Client Reporting Dashboard.exe
5 real clients in week one
Jordan Baum
A marketing agency owner built a client reporting dashboard and rolled it out to 5 real clients in her first week, then got confident enough to start building software to sell to other agencies.
Investor Deck.exe
The company raised during the cohort
Rachel
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, work that used to take a team of six.
Reach Out Bingo.exe
Printed PDF → working app in a day
Jen Waldman
A client’s printed PDF rebuilt into a working mobile app in a day, plus a casting tool with a live admin dashboard.
Editorial Strategist.exe
A full guest list in about 20 minutes
Kal Elsebai
A per-client editorial skill that generated a full podcast guest list for Daphne Oz in about 20 minutes, plus his first-ever website.
Community Garden.exe
A client tracks her own progress in it
Carly Valancy
A 6-month growth tracker built for a branding client, where the client submits her writing and tracks weekly progress. Plus the Community Garden, an interactive home for her Reach Out Party community.
Make something for someone
The ones that are not about productivity at all.
The Tail End.exe
Moved cohort-mates to tears
Justin Mather
A mortality visualization.
itsjustmath.net/last-time →Dementia Care Hub.exe
Built live during a family emergency call
Alison Taffel-Rabinowitz
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 call.
Do Not OD It.exe
A book for her daughter, in a font built for how she reads
Lucy Barzun Donnelly
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.
Heartbreak Hotline.exe
An actual number you can call
Kristie Dickinson
A call-in line to vent about heartbreak, plus a family-trip website.
You Are Enough.exe
Exactly what it says
Max Pete
A soul-built tool from Max to remind us all why we are, indeed, already enough.
you-are-enough.pages.dev →Zephyr.exe
A day on the animations before a single feature
Evangeline Garreau
A website 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.
Find out something
Questions no tool on the market would answer.
Wayback Investigator.exe
A story she had wanted for years
Alicia Kenworthy
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.
Self-Discovery Analysis.exe
Patterns she could not see herself
Rochelle
Fed years of client feedback into AI to surface hidden patterns in coaching style and strengths.
Personal News Algorithm.exe
A daily newspaper of one
Nikita Petrov
He describes the kind of stories he wants, important plus weird plus funny, and Claude picks them. Stories carry a shelf life and stale ones fall off on their own. Then he started drawing the illustrations by hand.
Investment Research.exe
Follow-ups written from the call itself
Chris James
Automated follow-ups from call transcripts, AI stock research, and a puzzle game with swappable themes.
YouTube Metrics.exe
Numbers that do not ruin your afternoon
Adil Zeshan
A YouTube metrics tool designed to not make you freak out every time you look at it.
Because it would be funny
No business case. Built anyway.
Music Taste Expander.exe
Miss the deadline, it donates your money
Mark Heggen
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.
Digital Oracle Deck.exe
“$10,000 minimum and 10 years, for sure”
Allegra Preuss
The digital version of her analog oracle card deck. Her words: "literally, 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."
Personal Operating System.exe
He built a whole OS to hold his apps
Michael Dean
Desktop app wrapping a personal publishing tool, typewriter, idea combiner, and time-locking focus system. All local.
Buddy List Website.exe
AIM buddy list as a personal site
Kristie Dickinson
Personal brand site inspired by AOL Instant Messenger buddy lists and MySpace surveys. Writing, podcast, and AI-analyzed testimonials.
FlowCrate.exe
10,000 photos, four cameras, one timeline
Nate Delgado
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 timeline.
There are more where these came from — 46 in total across three cohorts. The rest are at codeforcreatives.com/showcase.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. Claude writes the code. You describe what you want. The hard part is knowing what you want and being able to say it clearly, which is a creative skill, not a technical one.
Do I need to use the terminal? I'm no hacker.
Classic hacker response. Real hackers never think they're hackers. Also, no - you can run Claude Code entirely from the Claude desktop app if the terminal is not your thing.
What actually happens each week?
One live weekly lesson (with multiple sessions that cover the same material so everyone can find a time that works for them). Plus weekly office hours, plus a Slack channel that stays busy between sessions. New this round: a full week on taste, run with Sublime. At the start you'll pick something you want to build by the end (this can and often will change). Then, at the end, we'll do a show+tell where you share what you've made.
What if I fall behind?
There's no such thing. The race is long and only with yourself. You're exactly where you need to be. Also sessions are recorded and the recordings do not expire. Also the learning happens when you're able to receive it. No rush, no foul.
What do I need on my computer?
A Mac or a PC made in roughly the last five years, and a Claude subscription. That is it. You do not need a powerful machine because none of the work happens on it. We walk through the whole setup live in week one, and there is a written guide if you want to do it early.
Can I retake it?
Yes you can and guess what? It's free. A lot of students end up retaking it because this stuff all changes so fast. Spots for retakers are limited.
What is Sublime and why are they involved?
Sublime is a tool for collecting and connecting the things you read and save, built by people who care a lot about taste. They are partnering on Cohort Four, and they are running the week on taste with us. If you came here from Sublime, this is the same cohort, not a different one.
What if the tools change and this becomes outdated?
The tools will change. That is guaranteed. What transfers is describing what you want clearly, iterating with a machine that gets things wrong, and building systems that solve your specific problem instead of a generic one. Claude Code today, something else in two years, same job.
Everything else is at codeforcreatives.com/faq. Anything that isn't, email me.
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