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Four things I can do

by Jake Simonds|

November 07, 2025

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#1: Webmaster Crash Course (with LLMs): let's build you a personal website!

Duration: 2 hrs

Cost: $0 -> $150 I am boostrapping this, will do it for free!

You'll receive: One-on-one crash course in LLM-assisted coding where we build you a personal website with a <500-line codebase (And while I'm bootstrapping–will give you survey after & ask for feedback/testimonial if you liked it).

More info: Webmaster Crash Course
I believe with LLMs anyone can make a personal website in raw code with less heartache/frustration than going through a managed service like Squarespace.

More info: Webmaster Crash Course

I believe with LLMs anyone can make a personal website in raw code with less heartache/frustration than going through a managed service like Squarespace.

What I'll help with is keeping the LLM in check, and sharing my personal best practices.


Even more information:

#2: quick chat

Duration: 0.5 hr

Cost: freeeee

More info: quick chat

More info: quick chat

You should book a quick chat if...

  • you're interested in any of the larger services I offer

  • you have an idea for a company and want to pitch me on it

  • you want to be my next conventional employer (tentatively hoping to return to more conventional employment March-ish 2026 (but very interested in informational interviews now)

  • you're as interested in open social as I am

  • you want to hear my pitch for a company around helping B2B companies with APIs make themselves friendlier to LLM tools like Claude code

  • you've gotten this far and you're still reading. I like talking to people & I'll enjoy talking to you :)

#3: 'Gen'-Testing: what can one person + claude code do with your APIs?

Duration: 0.5 - 3 days

Cost: $500 - $3,000

You'll receive: Whatever I can accomplish with your API + a report & debrief session.

More info: 'Gen'-Testing
(it's a pun on pen-testing–'gen' for Gen-AI)

More info: 'Gen'-Testing

(it's a pun on pen-testing–'gen' for Gen-AI)

You:

  • you have an API that you designed for humans

  • you know a lot about your system and can't un-learn what you already know

Me:

  • I am developer who likes to use LLMs aggressively.

  • I know nothing about your company, system, best practice (but I am good at reading docs and I will read whatever you have)

What we could do together:

You give me everything you normally give to partners/new B2B clients/whoever is accessing your system programmatically(Tokens, fake data if you have it, documentation, an API spec, etc).

I then take however long you want to pay to me to take and I aggressively throw LLMs at your system (I like claude code, but I'll use anything else if you prefer).

I'll then report back where the LLM got stuck, and you'll have feedback on the intuitiveness of your systems.

If you're still reading:


#4: Dangerously-deliver-prototype: full-stack web app

Duration: 1 - 10 days

Cost: $1,000 - $10,000

You'll receive: As-is unsupported prototype full stack web app.

More info: Dangerously-deliver-prototype

More info: Dangerously-deliver-prototype

DANGER! DANGER! DANGER!

You might think you want a prototype web app for $1-$10K. You probably don't, though.

I will give you code and nothing else and code you don't understand is WORTHLESS and TOXIC.

What this would be:

React (frontend)->fastAPI(backend)->Postgres. We chat and develop a spec together. I take a 0.5-5 days with Claude code and hammer something out. You can be as involved as you want to be.

Refund if it sucks?

It will suck, so no.

If you're unhappy 50% refund no questions asked. No 100% refund like the smaller things because this would be an investment of my time.

If you're still reading:

Book a quick chat and we can talk more.


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