// this site is just what you can see. apps, tools, bots, whatever you want to make. i'll show you how.
// what this is
Some Guy & AI is me, Tim Naylor. I can't write code. I build real things with AI anyway, and I show you how.
Not just websites. Apps, tools, bots, whatever you want to make. Everything here, including this site's 3D workshop, I built by asking AI and figuring it out as I went. If I could do it, you can too. The whole site is the proof. The teaching is the point.
More than you'd think. Here's what I've actually built by talking to Claude, all real and all live: this entire website (the 3D room up top, no template, no developer), a whole other brand's website with a working store and real checkout, and a pile of my own behind-the-scenes tools that pull data, post content, and handle the boring repetitive stuff I'd have paid a developer for. None of it required becoming a programmer. It required wanting the thing. Your first one could be a personal site, a little tool you wish existed, a booking page for your business, a quiz, or a simple app that does one useful job.
Way less than people expect, and I'll give you the real number. A personal website you build yourself costs about 10 to 15 dollars a year for the domain, free hosting, and an AI that's free to start or about 20 dollars a month. Do it yourself and you can be live for roughly 12 dollars a year, total. The day a site becomes a business, hosting moves from free to about 20 dollars a month, that's the whole change. Compare that to an agency (1,500 to 10,000+ dollars for a custom site) or a no-code builder like Wix or Squarespace (15 to 50 dollars a month, forever, renting inside their template).
My own honest receipt: every website I own runs on one flat bill of about 230 dollars a month. That's 200 for the AI (I pay for the top tier because I build all day; the 20-a-month tier is the floor, not the serious number), 20 for hosting, and the rest for a build server and domains. Not per site. All of them.
I don't just say "you can build this." I show the builds and where they broke, because that's the part nobody else shows. This site's dog, Bandit, glided across the floor like he was on ice the first time I asked him to walk, legs not even moving. A security fix almost took the store down. And more than once the AI passed its own review and was still wrong, which is its own lesson: a passing review is not the same as getting it right.
Yes. This whole site is the proof, and so is a full brand store I built and run. You don't write code, you describe what you want, look at what comes back, say what's wrong, and go again.
I use Claude, made by Anthropic, for building, writing, and thinking through problems. You open a chat at claude.ai and start typing. Free to try. The 20-a-month tier is the entry point and plenty for one site, but it's the floor. Build seriously (every day, lots of projects) and you'll want more; I pay about 200 a month for the top tier because I build all day.
It will. Confidently. It'll insist it's right and waste your afternoon if you let it. Learning to catch that is half the skill, and it's exactly what I teach.
New here? Start with How to use Claude, the first thing I wish someone had shown me. Or browse everything I've built, and everything that broke, in the field notes.