Soundarya, about your application: “a super personal CRM so I can know what's happening with the people close to me”
“a super personal CRM so I can know what's happening with the people close to me”
“confident”
“I'm an author / event host / storyteller - https://curiousmaverick.com/about intrigued by this cohort!”
hi soundarya,
i read your application before i hit record, and the video above is me answering it rather than a form email.
- alex
- 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.
Want to split it into 2, 3 or 4 payments? Email alex@botharetrue.com and say which.
Questions I did not cover in the video, send them over. They come straight to me.
Reply to Alex →46-student-projects.txt 46 projects · 42 people · three cohorts
Everything anyone has built in the first three cohorts, unedited. Nothing here is picked to match you — it's the whole list, so you can judge it yourself.
6-Month Client Growth Plan Tool
A client-facing consulting tool with a weekly progress dashboard, AI-assisted content suggestions, and shared review between consultant and client.
Agency Client Tools
Automated production of client deliverables and simple tools, like project timelines, that clients can use directly.
AI Chief of Staff (Personal Accountability System)
A personal accountability assistant designed around her actual paper-based planning and multiple calendars, rather than replacing the systems she already uses.
AI-Assisted Writing Practice
Wants to use AI to help him get started, brainstorm, outline, and produce first drafts of his fiction and nonfiction writing.
Body/Mind/Spirit Wiki
A personal wiki of everything she has learned about herself, built so she can trust her own judgment instead of relying on influencers.
Bookkeeping App for Art Collectives
A bookkeeping app for the art collectives she's part of, including a PDF scanner that auto-sorts bank transactions for taxes.
The Brain Apothecary
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.
Business Website (content strategy / podcast production)
Finally finishing the website for his content strategy and podcast production service, a project that predates the cohort.
Chief of Staff Visual Dashboard
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.
Coaching Business MVP
An early working version of her coaching business offering, built and shown despite feeling like it wasn't ready.
Come On Man, Live A Little (Music Taste Expander)
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.
Connection CRM
A database of contacts organized by skill and specialty, so when someone asks for a recommendation he can actually find the right person.
Creative Hub
A personal hub she has wanted to build for a while to hold her creative work and ideas in one place.
Daily Agenda Setting Alarm
A morning alarm paired with a terminal chat to Claude that helps him plan his day, which he now uses every morning.
Dynamic Media Kit
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.
The Eel Cave
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.
Embodied Digital Garden
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.
FlowState.fm
A tool that turns Substack posts into Spotify playlists.
A game for couples
A game she made out of the work she had been doing with a client.
Garden Log App
A simple calendar-view app for tracking her personal garden, built for fun.
The Gotta Go skill
A Claude Code skill that runs at the end of every session to capture anything worth carrying into the next one.
Ground
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.
Infusion Business Financial Model
A three-year financial model for an infusion-center business, covering revenue, profit and loss, and capital requirements.
Investor Deck Builder
A pitch deck tool with inline editing, speaker notes and PDF export.
Mission Control Dashboard
A personal task and productivity dashboard, built with a spaceship theme, that pulls in tasks from her journal, reminders, email, and other apps.
Morning News Digest
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.
Personal Assistant Agent
An AI assistant to synthesize meeting notes, prioritize her daily tasks, and create outlines to help her start her hardest tasks.
Personal Operating System
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.
Personal Website (AIM/Buddy List aesthetic)
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.
Personal Website (AIM/buddy-list aesthetic)
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.
Quote Reminder Service
A tool that sends him random reminders throughout the day pulled from a spreadsheet of inspirational quotes, paired with random emojis.
Schwab API Trading Tool
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.
Trend/Signal Database
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.
Virtual Observation Deck
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.
Website for a Friend's Company
A website built for a friend's company.
YouTube Metrics Anxiety Tool
A tool that helps YouTube creators tell whether a dip or spike in their video metrics is a real signal or just normal variation.
Zero-Draft Casting Client Tool
A drafting tool for the client intake moment in casting work, meant to produce a rough first pass she calls the 'zero draft.'
faq.txt Questions people ask before they say yes
Do I need to know how to code?
Do I need to use the terminal? I'm no hacker.
What actually happens each week?
What if I fall behind?
What do I need on my computer?
Can I retake it?
What is Sublime and why are they involved?
What if the tools change and this becomes outdated?
Everything else is at codeforcreatives.com/faq.
cohort-4-details.txt The fuller version, if you want it
A Mac or a PC made in roughly the last five years, and a Claude subscription. That's it — none of the work happens on your machine, so it doesn't need to be powerful. Setup is walked through live in week one, and there's a written guide if you want to do it early.
There's no such thing. Sessions are recorded and the recordings don't expire. The learning happens when you're able to receive it.
Free, if you want it. A lot of students end up retaking because this stuff changes fast. Retaker spots are limited.
A tool for collecting and connecting the things you read and save, built by people who care a lot about taste. They're partnering on Cohort Four and running the week on taste with us. If you came here from Sublime, this is the same cohort, not a different one.
Email alex@botharetrue.com and say you want 2, 3, or 4 payments instead of one. Same total, split up.