Forbes 30 Under 30 · Y Combinator
About David Iya
David Iya is the co-founder of Claude Code Club, the #1 community for learning Claude Code. He has shipped products that reached more than a million users across 30 different countries, generated over $70M in GMV, and raised more than $14M in venture funding - with over 18 years of experience in software.
A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and Y Combinator alumnus, David has spent his career turning raw ideas into real products. He now teaches builders to do the same with Claude Code - going from idea to shipped without writing code by hand.
Inside Claude Code Club he leads the build systems, go-to-market, and monetization playbooks members use to turn AI skills into real income.
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Claude Code can write a whole feature in one turn, but shipping it blind is how you burn a client. Here is the exact review pass I run on every build - what I read first, what I never trust, and how I keep it fast.
Most Claude Code hooks look clever and then get deleted a week later. After running them on real client builds, here are the three hooks I actually kept, the ones I dropped, and how to add your first one without breaking anything.
MCP servers are how Claude Code reaches past your code and into your real tools. Here are the best Claude Code MCP servers to install first, grouped by what they let the agent actually do - from your repos and the live web to browsers, databases, and your workspace.
Claude Code subagents let you launch several specialized agents from one session, each with its own clean context. Here is what they are, when to reach for them, and how to brief them so a whole team of agents works on your project at once.
Learn how to build a chatbot with Claude Code from scratch - pick the type, describe the behaviour in plain English, connect it to a real interface, and deploy it so it runs without your laptop.
Learn how to build a mobile app with Claude Code even if you have never shipped one - choose the right approach, describe the app in plain English, preview it on your own phone, and get it ready for the app stores.
You can build a budget tracker with Claude Code even if you have never written code. Follow the Budget Blueprint to turn your income and spending into a clear picture of where your money goes.
The best Claude Code tips for beginners are habits, not tricks. Follow the Ten Starter Habits to go from opening the app for the first time to shipping something small and real.
A save-worthy list of ten real, finishable projects you can build with Claude Code - five personal tools to build this week, and five you can build to get paid - each described in plain English with who it is for and why it is worth building.
A plain-English walkthrough: plan the one action your page should drive, let Claude Code choose the stack and write every section, wire up a working form, and deploy it to a real URL - all through conversation, no design or coding background needed.
A command-line tool lets you run one command instead of repeating a chore by hand. This guide walks you through building a real bulk file renamer with Claude Code - from describing what you want to adding flags, a help message, and installing it so you can run it from anywhere.
A complete beginner's walkthrough: what a REST API actually is, how to plan your endpoints, let Claude Code choose and wire up the stack, add API key authentication, and deploy it to a live URL - all through plain conversation.
Learn how to build a Slack bot with Claude Code from scratch - covering Slack app setup, bot tokens, and wiring it all together through the Claude Code desktop app.
You can build a working Discord bot with Claude Code even if you have never written a line of code. Follow this walkthrough to go from an empty folder to a bot that is live in your server and doing a real job.
You can build an invoice generator with Claude Code even if you have never written code. Follow the Invoice Blueprint to turn your details into a clean, reusable invoice you can send in seconds.
You can build a web scraper with Claude Code even if you have never written a line of code. Follow the Polite Scrape method to pull the data you need from a page, safely and within the rules.
You can build a Telegram bot with Claude Code in a single afternoon. Follow the Bot in an Afternoon method to go from idea to a running bot, safely and step by step.
Claude Fable 5 is the most capable public Claude model, and you can start using it in the desktop app today. Here is how to turn it on, pick a job worth its power, and get a real result on your first run without wasting the included allowance.
Claude Fable 5 costs roughly double the Opus class per token, and in long agent runs those tokens compound fast. The fix is not avoiding Fable, it is using it deliberately. Here are five levers that cut the bill hard while keeping the results that made you reach for it.
Claude Fable 5 vs Opus 4.8 is not a close fight on paper, but it is the wrong question for most builds. Here is the honest split: what Fable's Mythos-class tier actually buys you, where Opus 4.8 is still the smarter call, and a simple two-question test for picking the right one every time.
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5, pulled it three days later under a US government export-control order, and redeployed it globally on July 1. Here is what actually changed, why it vanished and came back, and how to put the most capable public Claude model to work on a real build right now.
Learn how to automate spreadsheets with Claude Code using the Spreadsheet Handoff, a simple method to turn repetitive sheet work into a script that runs itself.
A Claude Code hook is a shell command the app runs automatically at set moments in a session, like right after an edit or before a tool runs. Here is what hooks are, the four moments they can fire, and two you can copy today to auto-format your code and protect files you never want touched.
A subagent is a second Claude Code instance that runs a job in its own context window and reports back. Here is what Claude Code subagents are, the three jobs they do well, how to spawn and build your own, and what the June 2026 update changed.
A simple Claude Code Git workflow that protects your work with save points. Learn the Safe Commit Loop, explained in plain English for non-technical builders.
Anthropic launched Claude Tag, a new way to put Claude inside Slack as a standing teammate you tag like any coworker. Here is what it does, who can use it today, and the standing-agent shift it points every builder toward.
You can build a Chrome extension with Claude Code even with no prior experience. Follow the Extension Starter Path to go from an idea to a working extension in your browser.
Most Claude Code mistakes are not about the tool, they are about how you brief it. Here are the 10 mistakes beginners make most, the exact fix for each, and the CCC brief, scope, verify framework that prevents almost all of them.
Learn how to debug with Claude Code using a repeatable five-step loop, so you stop guessing and start fixing bugs with calm, one change at a time.
These are the Claude Code slash commands I reach for every single day, what each one does in plain language, and when to use it. Save this as your quick reference, then build your own custom command on top.
A CLAUDE.md template is the single highest-leverage file in any Claude Code project, because it is the memory the agent reads every time it works. Here is the CCC project-brief skeleton plus 8 ready-to-paste CLAUDE.md templates, one per project type.
A Claude Code cheat sheet you can screenshot: the essential slash commands, the four core concepts (skills, subagents, MCP servers, hooks), and the CCC build flow I run every day. Plain-language purpose for each one, no fluff.
These are the 10 Claude Code prompts I run when I want a week of work done in a day - audit a codebase, write tests, fix a failing build, ship a feature, and more. Copy them, swap in your details, and run them in the desktop app today.
Claude Code agent loops are the engine behind the magic: the agent gathers context, acts, checks its own work, and repeats until the job is done. Here is what an agent loop is, the CCC loop framework, and how to run your first one today.
Claude Code vs Cursor is the wrong question until you know which one fits how you actually work. Here is a clear, honest comparison of the two, what each is best at, and a five-minute test to pick the right one.
Stuck on what to build? Here are 12 Claude Code project ideas sorted into three tiers, from a one-sitting starter to a self-running system, each with the exact first move so you actually finish.
Forgot to order something again? Good. A thing you build beats a thing you bought. Here are four Father's Day gifts you can ship this afternoon with Claude Code, even if you have never written a line of code.
A single survey of around 15,000 developers found Claude Code on top by a wide margin. The number is the hook. The real lesson is the why, and you can copy it whether or not the survey holds.
An agent is not magic and it is not months of work. It is a clear job, a subagent or two, and a few tools it can call. Here is how to build your first one this afternoon, start to finish.
As of June 15, 2026, headless Claude Code and Agent SDK runs stop counting against your Pro or Max limit. Here is what changed, which automations are affected, and the one thing you have to claim before it costs you.
Auto mode lets Claude Code take a whole sequence of actions while you watch from checkpoints. Here is what it actually changes, and how to use it without burning money or breaking something you cannot undo.
Most people stall at Level 1 and never realize there are four more above them. Here is the full progression, how to self-diagnose where you are, and the one concrete move that gets you to the next level.
Wire the n8n MCP server into Claude Code and it can read all 1,851 n8n nodes, build the workflow for you, and deploy it straight to your instance. Here is the full setup, start to finish.
Your Claude Code sessions keep forgetting what you're building because you only set up one layer of memory. There are three. Here's the stack the shippers are running this month - and how to install it in a weekend.
The headlines led with the valuation. The part that actually matters: the model sitting under your Claude Code session is about to get longer, cheaper, and faster shipped. Here's what the milestone unlocks for builders, and the habit stack to install this week so you ride it.
Most builders learn Claude Code. The ones who ship have a different set of habits. Here are seven of them - the ones that take you from tinkering forever to actually shipping the thing this week.
Seven days, four shipped things, a Chrome extension that almost killed my browser, and the exact moment Claude Code stopped feeling like magic and started feeling like a tool.
A step-by-step walkthrough of going from a blank folder to a working app in an afternoon - the exact setup, prompts, and mindset that get beginners shipping on day one.
Shipping something real in your first week sounds like hype until you see the path. Here's a day-by-day roadmap that takes you from zero to a deployed project - calmly, without burning out.
Both can write code, so why do serious builders reach for Claude Code? An honest look at where each tool fits, and why the difference comes down to acting in your project, not just chatting about it.
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