guides

the long-form companion to the @ImplexaAI daily series. each guide is the prompts, gotchas, and mental models behind one day of building a product end-to-end, solo.

• day 1may 24, 2026

  Day 1 — The Live URL First

  The 5-step Day 1 flow from the @ImplexaAI build-solo series — Claude Code, Claude Pro, the one-sentence prompt, push + deploy, optional design mode. Get a live URL on the internet in 10 minutes without writing code.

• day 2may 25, 2026

  Day 2 — Frontend, Demystified

  The 5-step Day 2 flow from the @ImplexaAI build-solo series. What frontend actually is. Next.js as the standard. Describing UI in plain English. Iterating by talking, not editing CSS. And the new gatekeeping skill: taste.

• day 3may 26, 2026

  Day 3 — Backend, Demystified

  The 5-step Day 3 flow from the @ImplexaAI build-solo series. What backend actually is. Why you rent it in 2026 instead of building it. Supabase + Stripe + Resend = 200 lines of glue. The new gatekeeping skill: knowing what to compose.

• day 4june 2, 2026

  Day 4 — Git Is Your Time Machine

  The 5-step Day 4 flow from the @ImplexaAI build-solo series. What Git actually is. Why it's a time machine, not a chore. Commits, branches, and undo — all in plain English, with Claude running the commands. The safety net that lets you build fearlessly.

• day 5june 4, 2026

  Day 5 — Deployment, the Magic Moment

  The 5-step Day 5 flow from the @ImplexaAI build-solo series. Deploying is one click and sixty seconds. The real trap is the backend still on localhost. Fix it, add analytics, skip the domain, and text the live link to one real person — the moment you stop learning to build and just ship.

• day 6june 5, 2026

  Day 6 — Ship Day: End-to-End

  The Day 6 capstone from the @ImplexaAI build-solo series. Ship one real full-stack app — a to-do list with login + database, deployed — and build the whole thing by prompting an AI. Next.js + Supabase + Vercel, three pieces, one live app. The day you stop learning to build and just ship.

• day 17june 17, 2026

  Day 17 — The Agent Did the Step I Forgot to Ask For

  The Day 17 moment from the @ImplexaAI build-solo series. I let an agent migrate a friend's site off a vibe-coding platform onto my own stack — and without being asked, it set up Google Search Console and submitted the sitemap. The boring SEO last mile everyone forgets. This is the line between a tool that does the task and an agent that owns the outcome — and the exact public agent that ran it.

• day 20june 22, 2026

  Day 20 — Make Your AI Agent Get Better: The Feedback Loop

  Most AI agents repeat the same mistake forever, because the correction lives in your head, not the agent. Here's the four-move feedback loop that turns a tool into a teammate: every run it shows its work, asks one question, you correct it once in plain English, and the note persists into the next run. From the @ImplexaAI build-solo series.

• day 23june 27, 2026

  Day 23 — Give Your AI Agent the Work, Not the Keys: The Irreversible-Action Approval Gate

  An AI agent deleted someone's entire production database this week — backups and all — with one command nobody approved. It didn't go rogue; it did exactly what it was allowed to do. Here's the one gate that stops it from happening to you, the honest caveat that keeps the fix from becoming useless, and why credentials are the real blast radius. From the @ImplexaAI build-solo series.

• day 25july 1, 2026

  Day 25 — Your AI Isn't Lying, It's Guessing: How to Stop Your Agent Making Things Up

  A giant firm just pulled an AI report after only five of its forty-five sources turned out to be real. Your own agent is doing a quieter version of the same thing — because it answers from a fuzzy memory of the internet instead of your real files. Here's the one plain-English rule (grounding / RAG) that stops most of it: point it at your real sources and let it say 'I don't know'. From the @ImplexaAI build-solo series.