Originally published at PickGearLab - practical AI tutorials for writers, freelancers, and small business owners. Subscribe free at pickgearlab.com/subscribe . I am not a developer. I have never shipped production code in my life. I have made HTML buttons that don’t do anything in 2014, and that’s about the extent of it. Last weekend I sat down at my kitchen table on a Saturday morning with a vague idea, opened Claude Code, and by Sunday evening I had a working web app deployed online that I now actually use every day. This post is the honest weekend journal - what I tried, what broke, what worked, the actual prompts I used, and what the finished app does. If you’ve been watching the “vibe coding” trend and wondering whether a non-developer can really ship something useful, this is one data point. Spoiler: yes, but with caveats I’ll cover at the end. TL;DR. Saturday 9am to Sunday 6pm. Built and deployed a personal expense splitter for my family group chat. Total Claude Code prompts: 47.…