I’ve been doing a lot of vibe coding with Claude lately, and I thought it would be helpful to show you exactly what that looks like in practice - not a polished demo, but my actual workflow on two real projects.
The first one I just did yesterday. I’m in a business accelerator right now, and we’ve been encouraged to look at our LinkedIn posts across three categories: growth and leadership, expertise, and social proof. I knew I could download my LinkedIn analytics, but manually sorting through them sounded miserable. So I exported the last 90 days as a CSV, dropped it into Claude with a simple prompt asking it to categorize my posts and help me understand what was working - and without me even asking, it built me a sortable dashboard in under a minute. I can filter by category, sort by impressions, and sort by engagements. I’m already thinking about combining it with my Substack stats to get a clearer picture of what I should prioritize.
The second project took more back-and-forth, but it’s the one I’m most excited about. As many of you know, I’ve been tracking every tech company announcement on elections going back to 1996 - and until recently, it lived in a very unruly Google Sheet that was nearly impossible to navigate. A week or two ago I downloaded it as a CSV and asked Claude what I could build with it to make it more accessible. It suggested things I hadn’t even thought of, like automatically tagging posts by theme. We went through several rounds of prompting, hit some errors, troubleshot together, and eventually I had a working database embedded on my Anchor Change site - searchable by company, platform, country, year, and theme. It’s not fully live yet (there’s a scrolling bug I’m still fixing), but it already paid off the first week: a client asked me a question, and I could look it up in the database instead of wrestling with the spreadsheet.
I recorded walkthroughs of both projects so you can see the actual prompts, the back-and-forth, and where I hit walls. The bar to get started is genuinely low. A simple CSV and a short prompt is enough.
Let me know what you’re building, if you have any tips for me - and drop any questions in the comments.
