It took me 8 months but Claude helped me build my app from scratch

Hi All, I never thought I’d be able to execute this but as of today (7 rejections later) my app is finally in the App Store. Thanks to vibe coding and Claude I was able to do it as a full one man show with no coding experience, which is insane to me. Basically last January I got so tired of 40 school emails a day for both of my kids and I asked AI to help me build a python script (had no idea what this was either) to keep track of specific emails and summarize them for my kids. Took me about a day but I got it to work! After that, it was kind of a “how far can I take this” situation. After the 5th parent asked me how I did that with the school emails, I thought I might really have something. Today I can finally say “holy shit, I went too deep down the rabbit hole” but also “I can’t believe I did it by myself”. Claude was amazing for helping me do it, but you can only be as good a builder as you are a manager of the Claude workflow. There are so many things I learned along the way. Happy to answer any questions about how I pulled it off as a dad of 2 working a full time job! If you want to give it a shot, I’m up in the Apple Store under Cleanmail: Family Inbox. Quick and easy link at: Cleanmailapp.com Claude helped me build this one too. I wrote this post though, no AI in that, just me at 8:25AM listening to my son play an old game boy.