Melissa, you have a seat if you want it. Alex recorded you something about it.
A reply for Melissa, from Alex.
“an infrastructure, toolkit and roadmap for The Human Collective, an online and IRL community consisting of creatives in the healing arts,”
“confident, proficient and like a badass ninja”
“1. "When the internet came through dial up modem" - I remember this thing of which you speak. 2. "Community was always the whole point." Yes - THIS! 3. I'm leaving a 28-year career in academic medicine/organ transplant to build a community of online and IRL creatives. I've spent a career making impossible things happen. I'm just getting started. C4C is the accelerant.”
hi melissa,
i read your application before i hit record, and the video above is me answering it rather than a form email.
- alex
46 projects. 42 people. Three cohorts.
A client-facing consulting tool with a weekly progress dashboard, AI-assisted content suggestions, and shared review between consultant and client.
Automated production of client deliverables and simple tools, like project timelines, that clients can use directly.
A personal accountability assistant designed around her actual paper-based planning and multiple calendars, rather than replacing the systems she already uses.
Wants to use AI to help him get started, brainstorm, outline, and produce first drafts of his fiction and nonfiction writing.
A personal wiki of everything she has learned about herself, built so she can trust her own judgment instead of relying on influencers.
A bookkeeping app for the art collectives she's part of, including a PDF scanner that auto-sorts bank transactions for taxes.
A personal, filterable library of creative inspiration that she had tried and failed to build in Webflow years earlier, then built in an afternoon with Claude Code.
Finally finishing the website for his content strategy and podcast production service, a project that predates the cohort.
A two-part system that triages three email inboxes down to a handful of items a day and shows her tasks, schedule, and calendar in one visual dashboard.
A custom, templated reporting dashboard for her marketing agency's clients, later evolved into a portal where clients answer questions and the dashboard builds itself.
An early working version of her coaching business offering, built and shown despite feeling like it wasn't ready.
A daily accountability system that emails him each morning when his Spotify listening gets too safe, with a real consequence (a donation to charity) if he doesn't branch out.
A database of contacts organized by skill and specialty, so when someone asks for a recommendation he can actually find the right person.
A personal hub she has wanted to build for a while to hold her creative work and ideas in one place.
A morning alarm paired with a terminal chat to Claude that helps him plan his day, which he now uses every morning.
A networked electronic press kit for people who do talking-head video work, designed so producers and agencies can pitch and be pitched through it.
A gamified task manager that turns his email and calendar activity into a game, with cartoon eel characters, an inbox triage tool, and small rewards for staying on top of tasks.
A personal knowledge tool where notes behave like living things: they grow, wilt if neglected, and cross-pollinate as more material builds up, blending Obsidian notes with a 2D/3D visual garden.
A tool that turns Substack posts into Spotify playlists.
A game she made out of the work she had been doing with a client.
A simple calendar-view app for tracking her personal garden, built for fun.
A Claude Code skill that runs at the end of every session to capture anything worth carrying into the next one.
A macOS mindfulness app that offers poems, koans, and grounding prompts with ambient sound, meant as an invitation into presence rather than a Pomodoro timer.
A public guide and tool documenting how she cleaned up a 26,000-unread-email inbox and unsubscribed from 700 mailing lists.
A three-year financial model for an infusion-center business, covering revenue, profit and loss, and capital requirements.
A pitch deck tool with inline editing, speaker notes and PDF export.
A personal task and productivity dashboard, built with a spaceship theme, that pulls in tasks from her journal, reminders, email, and other apps.
An automated email that lands in his inbox every morning with headlines and news from his niche, pulled from multiple sources.
A small web tool that breaks a block of writing into one sentence per line, so it's easier to edit for length and rhythm.
An AI assistant to synthesize meeting notes, prioritize her daily tasks, and create outlines to help her start her hardest tasks.
A local desktop app bundling several creative tools he needed into one place: a private Substack-style publisher, a distraction-free writing app, an idea combiner, and a focus timer.
A personal portfolio website he'd been meaning to build for a long time and finally shipped four days into the cohort.
A personal website with a deliberately old-internet, imperfect look, built after years of being unable to get what she wanted from a design firm.
A deliberately weird, MySpace-era-feeling personal website she built and kept iterating on herself, after a design firm's version left her cold.
A personal tool for developing and maintaining a clear point of view, published with a short letter explaining why it exists.
A tool that sends him random reminders throughout the day pulled from a spreadsheet of inspirational quotes, paired with random emojis.
A personal investing tool that connects to the Charles Schwab API to pull live pricing and delta for secured puts and calls.
A site tracking stats for the Alcaraz vs. Sinner tennis rivalry, built purely out of sports fandom.
A personal research tool that gathers signals from RSS feeds and builds a map of bigger-picture patterns and convergences happening in the world.
A mouse-driven tool for browsing typefaces, adding colors and effects, and exporting them.
University Lecture Slides (Web-Based)A web-based slide deck, adapted from Alex's format, that she built and used to give an actual university lecture.
A digital version of her oracle card practice, an app for exploring the deck of cards she created.
A sentence-length visualizer that shows how long each sentence in a piece of writing is, tested against a Churchill speech.
A website built for a friend's company.
A tool that helps YouTube creators tell whether a dip or spike in their video metrics is a real signal or just normal variation.
A drafting tool for the client intake moment in casting work, meant to produce a rough first pass she calls the 'zero draft.'
“Will I actually build the things and use them or will this just be another money pit where I half ass it and don't walk away with a new skill”
“giving Claude Code access to my downloads... my taxes are in there! I sweat so much during the 'dangerous permissions override option' section.”
“I feel like I have adult Legos. I get to play with something, imagine it in my head, and build it in this digital world in a way that serves my reality.”
Everything else is at codeforcreatives.com/faq.
One live lesson a week, run several times so you can find a slot that works.
Weekly office hours, and a Slack that stays busy in between.
A full week on taste, run with Sublime, and a year of Sublime Premium Plus.
You pick something to build in week one and leave with it built.
Every session is recorded, and you can retake a later cohort free.
If you want to talk it through before deciding, reply to this and we will.
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