I Built 5 SaaS Products in 7 Days Using AI
From zero to five live SaaS products in one week. Here is what I learned, what broke, and what I would do differently. The Challenge I wanted to test: can one developer, armed with Claude and Next....
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From zero to five live SaaS products in one week. Here is what I learned, what broke, and what I would do differently. The Challenge I wanted to test: can one developer, armed with Claude and Next.js, ship real products in a week? The answer: yes, but with caveats. The 5 Products AccessiScan (fixmyweb.dev) - WCAG accessibility scanner, 201 checks CaptureAPI (captureapi.dev) - Screenshot + PDF generation API CompliPilot (complipilot.dev) - EU AI Act compliance scanner ChurnGuard (paymentrescue.dev) - Failed payment recovery DocuMint (parseflow.dev) - PDF to JSON parsing API All built with Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, deployed on Vercel. What Worked AI for boilerplate code (auth, API routes, UI components) Vercel for instant deployment Upstash Redis for rate limiting and usage tracking Stripe for payments (surprisingly easy to integrate) What Did Not Work Trying to make everything perfect before shipping Building features nobody asked for Spending too long on design before validating d
