Ian Alexander — Demo — AI Stack

My Stack

Idea

"Every idea starts as a Claude conversation in my terminal. No notes app, no Figma — just text and pushback. The first job is to find out if the problem is real."

ClaudeClaude Code in terminal

Template— none, just a blank prompt

Outputa problem statement worth pursuing

Research

"Before any building, I push the idea through four gates: what's the job, the audience, the metric, the alternatives. If the POV is fuzzy, I stop here. No layouts before strategy."

ClaudePlanning gates

TemplateDecision Stack frameworkdoc

Outputa written POV in one sentence

Wireframe

"For real product work I sketch low-res HTML and screenshot it via Puppeteer before any real code. For throwaway 'what would this look like' exploration, Lovable in 10 minutes beats React in two hours."

LovableThrowaway probes

Template— just a prompt, no scaffold

Outputa 10-minute answer to 'what would this look like'

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</>Custom HTMLWireframes

TemplateHTML wireframe scaffoldtemplate

Outputa screenshot worth reacting to

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Build

"Cursor with Claude in composer. Branch off dev, never on dev directly. The accept/reject UI for AI edits is the only reason I haven't gone back to VS Code."

CursorPrimary IDE

Templatefeature/[name] branch off devconvention

Outputworking code on a feature branch

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ClaudeIn-editor pair

Template— context loaded from open files

Outputaccepted/rejected diffs as the design conversation

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Design

"Figma is where my tokens live. Less than 30% of design happens here anymore — it's a system maintenance tool now, not a creation surface. The real design happens in code."

FigmaTokens, components, handoff

Templateuxtopian design tokens filefile

OutputCSS custom properties for code

Ship

"GitHub PR for the diff trail (I'm reviewing myself), Vercel for preview deploys. #PL command pushes dev → master in one go. Two products go live in the time the legacy team would still be writing the ticket."

GitHubPR + diff trail

Template— just the diff, no checklist

Outputmerged PR as decision record

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VercelPreview + prod

Template#PL push-and-merge aliasalias

Outputlive URL with preview baked in

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Measure

"Plausible runs on every site I ship. I check it the day after a release and the week after — am I getting the visits, are people reaching the page I built, are they bouncing where I expected. The signal here decides whether the next idea is more of this or a pivot."

PlausiblePrivacy-first analytics

Template— no template — same dashboard for every site

Outputa yes/no on whether the bet worked

Manage

"Linear holds the issue. Notion holds the spec. docs/decisions.md holds the technical decisions per project. I write everything down because the next idea will reference this one — and AI gets better at helping me when it can read the trail."