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Designing Claude Design's Design System So It Isn't Throwaway
One pretty deck out of Claude Design isn't an asset if you rebuild the design system from scratch every time. Here is how to turn extraction into a repeatable operation, so anyone can spin up the same-quality deck from just a script — designed from the trenches of indie development and art.
I Handed Claude Design One Old Slide, and It Rebuilt Our Brand Automatically
What ate my time when remaking company and recruiting decks was never the content — it was reproducing the brand by hand every single time. Here is how feeding Claude Design one existing slide let me extract a design system and spin up on-brand decks from just a script, told from the perspective of a long-time indie developer and artist.
A Month of Reading App Store Connect Sales and Trends Weekly with Claude in Chrome
Notes from one month of switching App Store Connect Sales and Trends from a monthly glance to a weekly review, with Claude in Chrome walking the dashboards and four apps worth of numbers showing me what I had been missing.
Semi-Automating Firebase SDK Upgrades with Claude on Xcode — Implementation Notes from Six Indie iOS Apps
How I used Claude on Xcode integrated into Xcode 16.4 to walk six iOS apps through Firebase SDK 12 to 13 upgrades and finish the CocoaPods to Swift Package Manager migration — with the actual prompts, regression tests, and the judgment calls along the way.
Three Weeks of Letting Claude in Chrome Run My Android Vitals Weekly Review
I moved my Monday-morning Android Vitals review for a portfolio of wallpaper and relaxation apps over to Claude in Chrome three weeks ago. Notes on what I delegated, what I kept for myself, and how the rhythm has settled in for an indie developer in year twelve.
Catching AdMob Fill-Rate Drops in the Morning with Claude in Chrome — Two-Week Notes
I kept noticing fill-rate drops only by late afternoon. So I switched to having Claude in Chrome read the AdMob report each morning. Here are my two-week notes, with the numbers and the friction I ran into.
One month of weekly AppLovin MAX A/B test reviews with Claude in Chrome
Waterfall A versus B—how do you compare them every week without burning out? Here are my notes from running AppLovin MAX A/B tests across four indie apps with Claude in Chrome handling the weekly roll-up.
Ten Mornings of Letting Claude in Chrome Walk My Search Console Rounds
For ten days I handed a slice of my morning Google Search Console rounds across six properties to Claude in Chrome. Here is what changed in my mornings, written from the perspective of an indie developer running 50M+ download wallpaper apps.
Reading Claude Design and Figma Make Side by Side: What Survives When 'Pixels' Stop Being the Work
I have been feeding the same design system and PRD into Claude Design and Figma Make on screens from my own app business. Here is how the two outputs differ in character, and where the designer's job actually moves when generation costs go to zero.
Holding the Line on Claude's Output Shape With <output_format> — A Pattern From My Indie App Copy Pipeline
How I keep multilingual App Store copy from drifting across 100+ locales by leaning on the <output_format> tag, with the prompts and validators I actually run.
Three Weeks of Tuning AdMob Floor Prices with Claude in Chrome
Notes from three weeks of small daily floor-price adjustments across four iOS apps, with Claude in Chrome doing the dashboard rounds and me keeping the judgment calls.
Two Weeks of Reviewing Crashlytics Weekly with Claude in Chrome
I let Claude in Chrome walk through Firebase Crashlytics dashboards once a week instead of checking them every morning. Notes from two weeks of running this loose division of labor as an indie developer behind 50M+ downloads.