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Building Software for You by You

Building Software for You by You

Offered by Dan C.

5.0

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Magnify your expertise: build what you couldn't before with AI

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Studied at Washington University in St. Louis

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Works at wvlen

Description

You have an idea (an app, a tool, an automation for your work), but you've never shipped software, or you've stalled every time you tried. In this package we take your idea from a sentence to a working prototype in five hours of live 1:1 coaching. The key part is: you build it, not me. AI coding tools like Claude Code have made it possible for non-engineers to build real software, if you know how to operate them. That operating skill is what I teach. You'll be at the keyboard the whole time, prompting, deciding, and shipping, while I coach from the back seat: what to say to the model, what context to give it, how to tell when it's confidently wrong, and what to do when it gets stuck. How the five hours typically run (we'll adapt to your project): Hour 1: Scope and setup. We get AI tools running on your machine and sharpen your idea into a buildable first version. Hours 2–4: You drive, I coach. Guided build sessions on your project. You do the work; I keep you unstuck and teach the patterns as they come up. Hour 5: Make it yours. Debugging habits, a personalized playbook, and a concrete roadmap so you can continue building after we're done.


What you'll get from this package

A mental model for working with and steering language models to accomplish goals

A framework for going from idea to working piece of software, even without traditionally technical skills

A working prototype of your project idea built by you, running by the end of our sessions

A personalized playbook, following patterns that worked for your project and the way you work and think


Additional details

Coaching delivered via live sessions.

Five hours of live 1:1 video sessions with screen sharing, typically split as one 1-hour kickoff plus two 2-hour build sessions. We'll schedule around your availability and energy. My style is hands-on and coach-from-the-back-seat: you share your screen and drive the entire time. I don't send you a finished product. I help you build one, because that's what makes the skills stick. After each session you'll get short written notes covering what we did and what to try before next time.

Refund Policy

Services included:

AI Fundamentals

Prompt Engineering

AI Agents


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Dan C.

Offered by Dan C.

Joined July 2026

5.0

Magnify your expertise: build what you couldn't before with AI

I'm an experienced software engineer who has built and shipped production systems at scale at Square, Uber, and Chime, and I now help people build and work with AI. At Square I productionized LLM workflows, built internal AI tooling, and co-hosted company-wide AI office hours. I teach from first principles: how tokens, context, and agents actually work, independent of specific tools, models, or providers. I've taken designers and operations professionals from their first line of code to shipping software in production, helped CTOs and technical leaders adopt coding agents in their daily work, and paired with doctors, financial traders, and PhD researchers to turn their expertise into working software. I meet you where you are, technical or not, and aim to leave you capable on your own, or to keep building alongside you as your goals grow more ambitious.

Coaches professionally

Experience level: Executive

10+ people coached for Build with AI

$1,211.25

5h of coaching

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