Build logs, technical tutorials, and lessons learned shipping indie software.https://vient.org/en-ushttps://vient.org/og-default.pnghttps://vient.org/https://vient.org/blog/building-pirate-barber/https://vient.org/blog/building-pirate-barber/A barber in Cove, Utah had an Instagram and no website. I gave Claude the right prompt, all the real details, and a styling direction, and it built the three files. The hard part was getting the content, not the code.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThtmlcssjavascriptweb-designclient-workdevlogbuilt-with-claudecadendeveloper@gmail.com (Vient)https://vient.org/blog/only-building-dead-simple-apps/https://vient.org/blog/only-building-dead-simple-apps/I opened Bloons TD to play a quick round and closed it without playing. Four modals appeared before I could see the homescreen. From now on, my apps do one thing.Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTindie-devproductdesignessaycadendeveloper@gmail.com (Vient)https://vient.org/blog/building-plug-finder/https://vient.org/blog/building-plug-finder/How I turned leftover destination data into a 221-country power adapter finder with plug types and voltage comparison. The first version was unusable.Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTastrodevlogbuilt-with-claudetravel-toolscadendeveloper@gmail.com (Vient)https://vient.org/blog/building-connection-time-calculator/https://vient.org/blog/building-connection-time-calculator/How I built a connection time calculator covering 70 airports with pairwise terminal transfers, customs buffers, and a five-factor assessment algorithm.Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTastrojavascripttravel-toolsembedsdevlogbuilt-with-claudecadendeveloper@gmail.com (Vient)https://vient.org/blog/designing-homepage-hero-with-claude/https://vient.org/blog/designing-homepage-hero-with-claude/I gave Claude Design six 'decide for me' answers and it came back with a three-layer canvas flight animation. Two concepts, one conversation.Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTclaude-designcanvasjavascriptanimationdevlogbuilt-with-claudecadendeveloper@gmail.com (Vient)https://vient.org/blog/building-checked-bag-fee-widget/https://vient.org/blog/building-checked-bag-fee-widget/Framework-free fee calculator widget. Overweight surcharges, third-bag estimates, 75+ airlines sorted by total cost, all inside an iframe.Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTjavascripttravel-toolsembedsdevlogbuilt-with-claudecadendeveloper@gmail.com (Vient)https://vient.org/blog/building-embeddable-carry-on-widget/https://vient.org/blog/building-embeddable-carry-on-widget/A free, no-cookies carry-on size checker any travel blog can embed with a short HTML snippet. 75+ airlines, auto-updating data, full theme customization.Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTastrojavascripttravel-toolsembedsseodevlogbuilt-with-claudecadendeveloper@gmail.com (Vient)https://vient.org/blog/building-a-claude-code-statusline/https://vient.org/blog/building-a-claude-code-statusline/Set up a custom Claude Code statusline in 60 seconds with /statusline. Show your /usage, /context, 5-hour reset time, and working directory as colored progress.Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTclaude-codetutorialbashdevlogbuilt-with-claudecadendeveloper@gmail.com (Vient)https://vient.org/blog/building-mic-clipboard/https://vient.org/blog/building-mic-clipboard/Claude Code on Bedrock doesn't expose a microphone. I type slowly. So I built an iOS app that transcribes speech and drops it straight to the clipboard.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTreact-nativeexpoiosspeech-recognitiondevlogcadendeveloper@gmail.com (Vient)https://vient.org/blog/building-airline-size-checkers/https://vient.org/blog/building-airline-size-checkers/Two free tools that tell you whether your bag fits a given airline, built on a cited dataset of 50 carriers sourced from official policy pages.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTastrotypescripttravel-toolsseodevlogcadendeveloper@gmail.com (Vient)https://vient.org/blog/building-creatorkit/https://vient.org/blog/building-creatorkit/A content creator needed a media kit PDF. Every tool I found wanted a monthly subscription. So I built one that's free, no signup, and generates a polished.Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTnext-jsjspdfcloudflare-workerstypescriptpdf-generationdevlogcadendeveloper@gmail.com (Vient)https://vient.org/blog/shelving-burnrate/https://vient.org/blog/shelving-burnrate/BurnRate was supposed to be a unified dashboard for Anthropic and OpenAI spend. It worked great, until I realized the keys it needed could do a lot more than.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTnext-jstypescriptcloudflare-workersreactdevlogcadendeveloper@gmail.com (Vient)https://vient.org/blog/building-shipready/https://vient.org/blog/building-shipready/Lighthouse doesn't check if ChatGPT can crawl your site. So I built ShipReady, an SEO and AEO scanner that audits your site for the age of answer engines.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTastrocloudflare-workersseoaeotypescriptdevlogcadendeveloper@gmail.com (Vient)https://vient.org/blog/building-trump-trader/https://vient.org/blog/building-trump-trader/I built a bot that reads Trump Truth Social posts and trades the market. Paper trading worked great. Real markets taught me that latency kills everything.Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTpythonanthropicaialpacatradingdevlogcadendeveloper@gmail.com (Vient)https://vient.org/blog/building-packsmart/https://vient.org/blog/building-packsmart/How I built a free AI-powered packing list tool as part of the Travel Vient travel ecosystem, and what I learned about wrangling LLM output into reliable JSON.Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTnext-jsaicloudflaretypescriptdevlogcadendeveloper@gmail.com (Vient)https://vient.org/blog/building-sumtrails/https://vient.org/blog/building-sumtrails/I built a daily number-path puzzle game because I wanted one to play. Turns out, generating good puzzles is exponentially harder than solving them.Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTreact-nativeexpotypescriptpuzzle-generationdevlogcadendeveloper@gmail.com (Vient)https://vient.org/blog/moving-griffin-renovation-off-landingsite/https://vient.org/blog/moving-griffin-renovation-off-landingsite/LandingSite AI got Griffin Renovation online fast, but SEO limits and vendor lock-in pushed me to rebuild the whole thing in plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThtmltailwindseoclient-workdevlogcadendeveloper@gmail.com (Vient)https://vient.org/blog/building-total-eclips/https://vient.org/blog/building-total-eclips/A local salon in Smithfield, Utah had been cutting hair for four decades without a website. Here's how I built one from scratch with vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS.Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThtmlcssjavascriptweb-designclient-workdevlogcadendeveloper@gmail.com (Vient)https://vient.org/blog/building-roamly/https://vient.org/blog/building-roamly/How I turned the frustration of planning a trip with friends into a full-stack app that uses Claude AI to find destinations everyone can actually agree on.Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTnext-jssupabaseaicloudflarestripedevlogcadendeveloper@gmail.com (Vient)https://vient.org/blog/generating-youtube-shorts-with-ai/https://vient.org/blog/generating-youtube-shorts-with-ai/A TypeScript CLI that takes a script and spits out a finished YouTube Short using Claude, Fal.ai, ElevenLabs, and FFmpeg, no video editor required.Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTdevlogtypescriptaiyoutube-shortsclaudefal-aielevenlabsffmpegcadendeveloper@gmail.com (Vient)https://vient.org/blog/building-mage-portals/https://vient.org/blog/building-mage-portals/How selling mage portals for gold in WoW Classic led to writing Lua, fighting the minimap API, and learning why Trade chat is a disaster for pattern matching.Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTluaworld-of-warcraftwow-addondevlogcadendeveloper@gmail.com (Vient)https://vient.org/blog/building-joke-of-the-day/https://vient.org/blog/building-joke-of-the-day/How a simple joke extension became a TypeScript learning project, a monetization experiment, and somehow one of the more successful things I've shipped.Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTchrome-extensiontypescriptvitemanifest-v3devlogcadendeveloper@gmail.com (Vient)https://vient.org/blog/building-griffin-renovation/https://vient.org/blog/building-griffin-renovation/A renovation company needed a website fast. I used LandingSite.ai to go from nothing to live in a few hours, and here's what actually worked.Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTno-codeai-toolsweb-designclient-workdevlogcadendeveloper@gmail.com (Vient)https://vient.org/blog/building-smoke-or-fire/https://vient.org/blog/building-smoke-or-fire/How a party card game became a React Native + Firebase multiplayer app, the Firebase array normalization problem that almost broke multiplayer.Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTreact-nativeexpotypescriptfirebasedevlogcadendeveloper@gmail.com (Vient)