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Built a Claude Code plugin, used it to ship my first SaaS ever Never deployed a SaaS before. Quick rundown of what happened. Why I built the plugin

  • Tried popular Claude Code plugins, none did end-to-end (requirements, code, tests, security, deploy)
  • Built my own. 13 agents, 5 phases, you just say “build me X” and it runs the whole pipeline
  • Repo if curious: https://github.com/nagisanzenin/claude-code-production-grade-plugin The prompt that started it all
  • “Give me a SaaS that’s mathematically impossible to lose money”
  • Logic: $0 infra cost + any paying customer = instant profit
  • Pipeline picked uptime monitoring. Simple, boring, profitable from day one. What it built
  • Next.js + Vercel (free), Turso DB (free), Resend emails (free), cron-job.org (free)
  • Free tier + $7/mo Pro plan, ~$6.15 net per customer
  • 64 tests passing, security audit done, clean architecture Then I tried to actually deploy it
  • Sign-in buttons broken, used Link component for API routes instead of anchor tags
  • Auth infinite redirect loop. Classic.
  • Users redirected to landing page after login instead of dashboard
  • Vercel rejected deploy, git email mismatch
  • Cron used http instead of https, silent failure
  • All invisible in local testing. All discovered live. The payment problem
  • Set up Stripe, turns out Stripe doesn’t support my country
  • Full payment migration to LemonSqueezy (merchant of record, supports more regions)
  • New SDK, new webhooks, schema changes, all 64 tests rewritten
  • Lesson: check your payment processor BEFORE writing payment code Polish
  • Pipeline output looked like… an engineer built it
  • Two rounds of UI work: gradients, blur nav, skeleton loaders, micro-interactions Result PingBase: https://pingbasez.vercel.app/ Live, working, $0/month running cost, ~3hrs total build time Takeaways
  • $0 infra is real. Free tiers stack up.
  • AI builds fast but doesn’t deploy. Every bug was a deployment bug.
  • Payment processing varies by region. Plan ahead.
  • Profitable from customer #1 > growth hacking First SaaS, first deploy, first time debugging OAuth in prod. It’s live. Happy to answer anything. submitted by /u/No_Skill_8393

Originally posted by u/No_Skill_8393 on r/ClaudeCode