Doug Camplejohn’s Post

We just rebuilt our entire user interface in three weeks. It was possible because of three things: 1) Great people 2) AI coding tools 3) An API-first backend architecture Here's how it began:  Last month we had launched our Stripe and Intuit QuickBooks integrations and I began to ponder how we could make our product even more suitable for those audiences. That led to me dictating a Google Doc about what kind of things I'd want to see, such as simplifying some of the UI, changing pipeline defaults based on what type of company you are, supporting international currency and languages and more. Then I fed that doc into Lovable. In a few hours, I had all the core UI elements working as I wanted, and within a week I had fleshed out all the features. Dan Chiao, my VP of Engineering and Co-Founder, then started wiring up to our back end with Anthropic's Claude Code. Like most development projects, the first 90% went quickly, and the last 10% took the the most time. But it's still remarkable that we were able to completely change the look and feel from what's in my head to what you can use today in under three weeks, and ship new functionality to boot. For us at Coffee, this combination of Lovable for the front end and Claude Code for the back end seems to be working very well and allows us to accelerate our already fast development cycle even more. I have never felt a more direct path from what's in my head to what I see on screen. None of this would have been possible even a few months ago. P.S. I also redid the entire website in that time myself. 🤪