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Nadia Eldeib @nseldeib.bsky.social · 21d

P.S. Feedback on our new site welcome. I'm still iterating!

Nadia Eldeib @nseldeib.bsky.social · 21d

As a product-focused founder formerly limited to product management and never being able to effectively help developers create production-quality code, being able to pair with Claude is transformative.

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Nadia Eldeib @nseldeib.bsky.social · 21d

Full post 👇
blog.nseldeib.com/p/pairing-wi...

Pairing with Claude Code to Rebuild My Startup’s Website

Adventures using AI agents, especially Claude Code, and MCP Servers

blog.nseldeib.com

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Nadia Eldeib @nseldeib.bsky.social · 21d

"APPROVED - Ship It!" 🚀

Set myself a challenge: rebuild the @codeyam.bsky.social
website from Figma designs using AI coding agents.

Claude Code CLI acted as:
→ Programming pair
→ PR reviewer
→ Pseudo-CTO

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Nadia Eldeib @nseldeib.bsky.social · Sep 5

From Prompts to (Almost) Production: Choosing the Right AI Tools for a Startup Website Refresh: blog.nseldeib.com/p/from-promp...

From Prompts to (Almost) Production: Choosing the Right AI Tools for a Startup Website Refresh

Testing editors, CLIs, and MCP servers to see how far AI workflows can go in real-world development to rebuild our startup’s website

blog.nseldeib.com

Nadia Eldeib @nseldeib.bsky.social · Sep 5

AI workflows aren’t just for prototypes.

I rebuilt parts of the @codeyam.bsky.social website using an agentic coding workflow...and it is almost production-ready.

Curious: would you trust AI-generated code in your own projects if humans reviewed it first?

Full thoughts below👇

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Nadia Eldeib @nseldeib.bsky.social · Aug 21

Immediately called out the cheek cuteness when my partner started using your app. The details are (pun intended) delightfully cheeky 🍑

Nadia Eldeib @nseldeib.bsky.social · Jun 20

We ran an experiment: can AI tools build real, functional software from a natural language prompt?

The result: a deep dive across 7 “vibe coding” tools, from v0 to Lovable to Figma Make.

All built something, but not always what we expected.

👉 Full write-up here → blog.codeyam.com/p/creating-s...

Creating Software Without Writing Code: Testing AI “Vibe Coding” Tools

Can you build a real, functional web app with nothing but natural language prompts?

blog.codeyam.com

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Nadia Eldeib @nseldeib.bsky.social · Jun 11

Been diving into how AI is reshaping software development.
Not just faster code, but better feedback loops, more intuitive tooling, and sometimes strange bugs.

Wrote a piece on what I’ve been learning through CS50, vibe coding tools, and building in the in-between. open.substack.com/pub/nseldeib...

On Learning How to Build Software in the AI Era, With and Without Coding

Despite working at software companies for over a decade, I held roles where I often looked at code but rarely touched it.

open.substack.com

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Nadia Eldeib @nseldeib.bsky.social · May 23

Tony Stark isn’t the same Iron Man without JARVIS!

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Nadia Eldeib @nseldeib.bsky.social · May 1

What channels have worked best for your user research? Always looking to improve our approach.

#UserResearch #StartupLife #ProductDevelopment

Nadia Eldeib @nseldeib.bsky.social · May 1

This is the exact process we're using as we refine how we describe our software simulation tools at @codeyam.bsky.social . Hope it saves you some headaches!

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Nadia Eldeib @nseldeib.bsky.social · May 1

I've shared our complete playbook including:

- How to define who you actually need to talk to
- Where to find these people without expensive tools
- Our actual screening survey and email templates
- Tips for catching people who try to game your screening (it happens more than you'd think!)

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Nadia Eldeib @nseldeib.bsky.social · May 1

Just published a practical guide to recruiting quality user research participants when you're bootstrapping the process 🔍

At CodeYam, we've learned that talking to the wrong people = useless data, no matter how good your questions are.

Read on: nseldeib.substack.com/p/finding-re...

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Nadia Eldeib @nseldeib.bsky.social · Apr 24

If you're a founder friend, you know that for years I've been obsessed with leveraging qualitative user research to create faster feedback loops to improve learning velocity and iteration, especially in the earliest stages.

👇 Introducing a new series on this:
nseldeib.substack.com/p/build-fast...

Nadia Eldeib @nseldeib.bsky.social · Apr 22

Listening to Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum and am struck by how much of the internet's history (and present!) is in suburban Virginia, where I grew up.

As a kid, I had no idea. Is this taught now? I would've loved to learn about the internet's creation and evolution.

Nadia Eldeib @nseldeib.bsky.social · Apr 17

Hey #startup folks — I’m Nadia, CEO & co-founder of CodeYam. We’re building something new for developers and running 1:1 usability interviews on April 23 & 25 (and beyond).

Sign up: forms.gle/rjUe3YzKxjkf...

Paid usability interviews with professional software developers and engineering managers, founders, and technical leaders on April 23rd & 25th, and beyond

We are scheduling 60-minute 1:1 usability interviews to be conducted virtually/remotely over Zoom on April 23rd and 25th and potentially at a later date. This study is an opportunity to provide feed...

forms.gle

Nadia Eldeib @nseldeib.bsky.social · Apr 9

Update: this meetup was a blast!

Pictured: @nathenharvey.bsky.social facilitating an epic live coffee discussion on AI, DORA for the cloud, velocity vs quality, measurability of AI’s impact on software development and more!

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Nadia Eldeib @nseldeib.bsky.social · Apr 9

Will folks be at the @dora.dev meetup at Google Cloud Next today? Hoping to join and meet some familiar-from-Meets faces!

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Nadia Eldeib @nseldeib.bsky.social · Mar 26

As a founder wrestling with the speed v. quality tradeoff, I'm fascinated by AI tools promising both. Our product designer tested four AI-native tools to redesign our @codeyam.bsky.social site.

The result: impressive speed, but real limitations.

Read her findings: blog.codeyam.com/p/testing-th...

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