Module 1 · Build a Website Business · Day 1 of 10

Welcome. Let's ship your first real site today.

By Day 10 you'll have a working portfolio, a business landing page, and the habit of building with Claude Code instead of watching someone else do it. Today: install it, and ship one real page before you close the laptop.

Welcome video — recording pending, script below stands in for now

Video script (for recording): "Hey — welcome to Module 1. Over the next 10 days you're building a real website business, not watching tutorials. Today's the shortest day: install one tool, and ship one page. Don't worry about it being perfect — worry about it being real. Let's go."

Your 10-day roadmap

Day 01

Install Claude Code, ship your first live page

Day 02

Turn a plain-English idea into a working page

Day 03

Edit what it built — ask for changes without breaking things

Day 04

Understand what got created: files, folders, why they matter

Day 05

Connect to GitHub so your work is never lost

Day 06

Get a site live: your first real deploy

Day 07

Fix things when they break — read errors without panicking

Day 08

Add a second page and link it up: your landing page

Day 09

Automate updates: push once, redeploy every time

Day 10

Ship the deliverable: portfolio + business landing page, live

Step 1 — Install Claude Code

  1. Install Node.js if you don't have it

    Claude Code runs on Node.js 18 or later. Download it from nodejs.org if node --version in your terminal doesn't already show a version.

  2. Install Claude Code

    Open a terminal and run:

    npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
  3. Start it and sign in

    In any folder, run:

    claude

    It'll prompt you to log in with your Claude account (or API key) the first time. After that, you're in.

Step 2 — Ship a real, live page today

Claude Code isn't a chat window — it reads and edits real files, runs commands, and proposes changes you approve before anything happens. The loop: you state the goal → it reads relevant files → proposes an edit → you approve → it runs and checks the result.

  1. Make a project folder

    Create a new folder for this (e.g. my-website), then run claude inside it.

  2. Ask for your first page

    Type this into Claude Code, in your own words:

    Build a one-page personal site with my name, a short bio, and three project links.
  3. Read the diff before you approve

    Claude Code will show you exactly what it's about to create. Skim it — you don't need to understand every line, just confirm it matches what you asked for — then approve.

  4. Open it in your browser

    Find the file it created (usually index.html) and open it directly. That's a real, working page you built today.

Your Starter Kit

Day 1 Quick-Reference

Keep this open in a side window while you work.

TaskPrompt pattern
Start a project"Build a [thing] that does [X]"
Add a feature"Add [feature] to the [file/page] — [format]"
Fix a bug"[Thing] breaks when [X] — find and fix it"
Undo a change"Revert the last commit"
Understand code"Explain what [file] does before we touch it"

Bonus #1 — Organize Your GPT Images

A free Codex-built utility, yours to keep

You'll generate a lot of AI images across this course. This is a safe PowerShell script — copy-only, never deletes originals, hash-deduped, with a preview mode — that finds them scattered across your folders and organizes them into one library with a full CSV inventory. No installation, no third-party modules.

⬇ Download Organize-GPT-Images.ps1