developer & youtuber
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Building real products with AI, on camera
I build real, shipped products with AI coding tools like Claude Code and Codex, and I film the whole process on YouTube: the prompts, the bugs, and the deploys.
Terminal demo: $ npx create-courajoe-app my-saas. Scaffolding Next.js 16 + Tailwind. Pairing with Claude Code + Codex. Plugging in MCP tools. Deploying to Dokploy via Nixpacks. live → https://my-saas.dev. REC episode saved for YouTube. $ git push && ship-it --on-camera.
01/$ ls ./coding-stack
The tools I actually ship with. It's a boring, proven stack that runs on a VPS I control.
daily drivershipped to prodfamiliar
02/$ cat ~/.toolbelt
The part most tutorials skip: the AI tools I build with every day, and where each one fits in my workflow.
01 · Agentic CLI
An agentic coding assistant that lives in my terminal and works across the whole repo.
// how I use it: My main pair programmer. It scaffolds features, refactors across files and runs the build until it passes.
02 · Agentic CLI
OpenAI's coding agent, for running parallel tasks and getting a second opinion.
// how I use it: I hand it isolated, well-scoped tasks and compare its approach against Claude's on camera.
03 · Protocol
The Model Context Protocol, an open standard for plugging tools and data into AI agents.
// how I use it: I wire agents into real systems like databases, browsers and docs so they can check their own work.
04 · Platform
Direct API access to Claude models for building AI features into products.
// how I use it: I use it when the product itself needs AI, for things like summarisers, agents and structured extraction.
03/$ ls -lt ./projects
Real things, built from an empty folder. Each one has a write-up covering the stack, the decisions and the code that mattered.
~/projects/cc-portfolio·Sep 2026
A fully static developer portfolio with MDX write-ups, a terminal-style hero and a WebGL globe that spins as you scroll, deployed to Dokploy with zero Docker config.
read the write-up
~/projects/mcp-postgres-inspector·Aug 2026
A tiny read-only MCP server that lets Claude Code look at a live Postgres schema and sample rows, so it writes migrations against reality instead of guessing.
read the write-up
~/projects/shiplog·Jul 2026
A multi-tenant changelog and release-notes app built almost entirely by pairing with Claude Code, from an empty folder to a paid-ready deploy on a Contabo VPS.
read the write-up
04/$ ./contact.sh
Collabs, sponsorships, video ideas, or you just shipped something with AI and want to show it off. My inbox is open.
$ cat README.md
CoderCourajoe
@CoderCourajoe · Remote · Earth
I'm a full-stack developer who teaches by building. Every video starts from an empty folder and ends with something live on the internet. Along the way I show how I pair with AI agents, where they save hours, where they need a firm hand, and how to ship on a modern stack (Next.js, Postgres, Docker) to a VPS you actually control. No toy demos, no slides: just real products, built on camera.