Speed Is a Feature
Speedruns
Things I Built Absurdly Fast
Claude Code did 6 months of work in 2 days. I'm still picking my jaw up off the floor. Here's the full list of things that got built at speeds that probably shouldn't be legal.
glenbradford.com
Days, not monthsA 3,143-page personal website with blog posts, billionaire profiles, movie scripts, gear reviews, book recommendations, voting system, leaderboard, and newsletter integration.
How
Claude Code running 9 agents in parallel. I typed instructions. Claude typed everything else. I deployed between Rocket League matches.
Delivery Hub
85 releases in 8 monthsA full Salesforce managed package for software delivery — sprint planning, issue tracking, automation, and reporting. Enterprise-grade. Solo developer.
How
Claude Code for Apex and Lightning Web Components. Test-driven development. Ship daily. Fix daily. Ship again. 90%+ test coverage maintained throughout.
157 Billionaire Movie Screenplays
One sessionFull movie treatments for 157 billionaires and icons. Each one includes a logline, cast recommendations, three-act structure, and dialogue scenes.
How
Claude Code writing in batch mode. I reviewed, edited, and made sure each screenplay captured what makes that person extraordinary. Not AI slop — curated AI collaboration.
2,708 Blog Posts Migrated
HoursA decade of WordPress content — investment theses, market commentary, personal essays — parsed, categorized, and rendered in a modern Next.js site.
How
Markdown parsing, automatic categorization via regex, frontmatter extraction, and in-memory caching. The kind of boring infrastructure work that Claude Code makes painless.
The Billionaire Bookshelf
One afternoon47 book recommendations from the world's richest people, with attribution, quotes, ratings, and Amazon links. Cross-linked to billionaire profiles.
How
Data modeling, affiliate integration, client-side search and filtering. Built the whole system — data, components, pages — in one sitting.
31 Gear Comparisons
Two eveningsHonest product comparisons from my real Amazon purchase history. What I bought vs what I should have bought, with stories and lessons for each one.
How
Structured data with the Amazon affiliate tag baked in. Each comparison has a story, a verdict, a lesson, and ready-to-tweet text. Content + commerce in one sitting.
Cloud Nimbus LLC Website
One weekendA professional business site with product pages, comparison pages (vs Jira, Asana, Monday), demo page, documentation, and contact form.
How
Next.js static export, Tailwind styling, Vercel deployment. The whole thing from zero to live in a weekend because the client was me and I don't do meetings.
9 Books Published
2012 - 2024Act As If, 8 Fanniegate volumes, and Grandma Helen's memoir. Self-published via Amazon and Gumroad. Written with the intensity of someone who has something to prove.
How
Pure stubbornness. I had a thesis that required 8 books to explain properly. Most people would have written a blog post. I wrote a library.
The secret? Start before you're ready.
Most projects die in the planning phase. These all share one thing in common: I started building before I had a complete plan. Speed compounds. Momentum is real. And Claude Code is the best co-pilot a builder could ask for.
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