All builds.

10 things people ask AI to build, each one a real conversation with Claude: 50 prompts, 1 h 2 min of Claude writing, 60 of 74 tests passed, and 60 things it got wrong, all listed.

Home page on a laptop: a cream page with a big serif 'Tom's Towpath Walks' heading between thin rules, a short intro, and three walk cards with miles, time and small 'good for' labels.

I want AI to build me a website

Five plain-English prompts in a Claude chat made a three-page website from a description and a screenshot we liked. Upload the files to GitHub and Cloudflare puts them live: free, no terminal.

Prompts: 5
Claude's time: 2 min 39 s
Tests passed: 3 of 5

Riverside Dog Walks on a laptop: a cream page with the heading 'The best part of your dog's day.', a short line about insured walks in Kingston upon Thames, an orange Book a walk button, a Call 07700 900123 button, three ticks and a large orange tile with a white paw print.

I want AI to build me a website for my business

Five plain-English prompts in a Claude chat made a one-page site for a dog walker, every Book button linked to its booking page. Upload it to GitHub and Cloudflare puts it live: free.

Prompts: 5
Claude's time: 3 min 32 s
Tests passed: 5 of 6

The list on a laptop: 'Water the seedlings before the open day' at the top marked 'Needed by Sat 3 Oct' in amber, then a test job titled with the literal text <img src=x onerror=alert(1)> shown as plain text. Each job has I'll do it, Done, Set a day and Delete buttons, and a dark bar at the bottom says 'Please type a job first.'

I want AI to build me an app

Five plain-English prompts made a shared job list that saves to a database. Upload two files to GitHub and Cloudflare puts it live, and every change after: free, no terminal.

Prompts: 5
Claude's time: 8 min 17 s
Tests passed: 7 of 8

Laptop: the start card, 'Bramble's Apple Catch', with a key for red apples (+1 point), golden apples (+5) and rotten apples (lose a heart), an orange rounded Play button, and Bramble in a red scarf on the grass below.

I want AI to make me a game

Five plain-English prompts made a hedgehog apple-catching game in one file, played with arrow keys or a thumb. It passed all 33 of our checks. Upload it to GitHub and Cloudflare shares it free.

Prompts: 5
Claude's time: 5 min 39 s
Tests passed: 7 of 8

Millbrook Bike Repairs chat page on a laptop: a warm off-white page with the heading 'Got a question about your bike?', a chat box with a greeting, three tap-to-ask buttons and an orange Send button, and the address and hours below.

I want AI to build me a chatbot or AI agent for my business

Five plain-English prompts made a shop chat box: two files you upload to GitHub, put live by Cloudflare, key kept secret. It passed 22 of 22 browser checks; one trick still got through.

Prompts: 5
Claude's time: 4 min 6 s
Tests passed: 6 of 8

The candles section served as a website with no links added: Riverside £18, Allotment £18 and Fireside £24 cards, each with an outlined 'Email us to order' button and '+ £3.95 UK delivery' underneath.

I want AI to build me an online shop

Five plain-English prompts made a small candle shop with a Stripe payment link per product. Upload it to GitHub and Cloudflare hosts it free; Stripe takes 1.5% + 20p per UK card sale.

Prompts: 5
Claude's time: 8 min 34 s
Tests passed: 6 of 7

Laptop: a white page with a small blue square and 'BRISTOL · WATERCOLOUR & INK', a huge black 'Nell Ashcombe.' with a blue full stop, 'Freelance illustrator, children's books and packaging' half in blue, a short intro, and Email me and See my work buttons.

I want AI to build me a CV or portfolio website

Five plain-English prompts in a Claude chat made a one-page CV and portfolio with email and copy-address buttons. Upload it to GitHub and Cloudflare puts it live: free, no terminal.

Prompts: 5
Claude's time: 3 min 32 s
Tests passed: 4 of 6

Today screen on a laptop after importing the 12 sample customers: four boxes with small capital labels reading Due this week 5 (2 cleaned so far), Overdue 3, Owed to you £58 and Earned this month £0, then overdue customers with big blue Cleaned buttons.

I want AI to build me a dashboard, CRM or spreadsheet tool

Five plain-English prompts made a password-protected customer list with spreadsheet import. Upload two files to GitHub and Cloudflare puts it live: free, no terminal.

Prompts: 5
Claude's time: 15 min 44 s
Tests passed: 10 of 10

Choir page on a laptop: a cream page with small capitals for the choir name and menu, a big serif 'Hollybrook Community Choir' heading over three lines, a rust italic 'Singing together on Tuesday evenings.' and a rust numbered 'When and where we rehearse' section.

Do I need Wix or Squarespace, or can Claude and GitHub do it?

Claude picked GitHub and Cloudflare over Wix or Squarespace for our choir, on one condition: someone must be around to make changes. Its site passed 31 of 33 checks.

Prompts: 5
Claude's time: 2 min 41 s
Tests passed: 3 of 5

The same app on a laptop-width screen: four wide candle buttons, Small jar and Large jar marked 1, £22 at the bottom and full-width orange Cash and white Card buttons.

I want AI to build me a mobile app

Five plain-English prompts made a market-stall till app that installs from a link and works with no signal. Not an App Store app: you upload four files to GitHub and Cloudflare hosts it free.

Prompts: 5
Claude's time: 7 min 55 s
Tests passed: 9 of 11