I built a daily literature quiz game from a spreadsheet containing thousands of classic literature quotes, which I previously posted on Instagram each day. I uploaded the document to Claude Code, which organized and tagged the quotes, created multiple-choice questions with increasing difficulty, and wrote short summaries of each book along with a fun fact supported by academic sources. I also vibe-coded the game’s UI/UX in a day or two, and I think it looks pretty beautiful. You can play it at play.writt.org. Step-by-step: 1. I collected thousands of classic literature quotes in a spreadsheet and posted them on Instagram each day. 2. I uploaded the document to Claude Code. 3. Claude Code organized and tagged the quotes. 4. Claude Code created multiple-choice questions with increasing difficulty. 5. Claude Code wrote short summaries of each book and a fun fact with academic sources. 6. I vibe-coded the game’s UI/UX in a day or two. 7. I published the game at play.writt.org.

Teachers give assessments on devices provided to students, but students can use AI to cheat. I built TypeWriter to bring the level of security found in tests like the ACT and SAT to everyday assessments. Teachers can create assessments from existing materials, post them in a locked environment, and grade submissions and provide feedback on the same website. I built TypeWriter as a high school teacher, and it is free for teachers. Step-by-step: 1. Teachers create an assessment using their existing materials in TypeWriter. 2. They post the assessment in TypeWriter’s locked environment. 3. Students complete the assessment on the provided devices. 4. Teachers grade the assessments and provide feedback on the same website.

For the start of the new school year, I wanted to use the current eastern Washington wildfires near Spokane with my two sixth-grade science classes. I wanted an AI tool to create a website I could upload to my hosting service. The site needed to provide daily updates from verified news sources, along with air quality data comparing Spokane in eastern Washington, Kirkland near Seattle, and Chimacum, where we live, on the western side of the state. I also wanted to include a simulation where students could change different variables to see how they affect the direction of the smoke and air quality. I could not decide which AI service to use, so I entered the same prompt into my personal paid Claude and Gemini Spark accounts, as well as my free teacher ChatGPT and Claude accounts, to compare which one created the best site for students. Here is the prompt I used: "Create a dynamic website with information of the Spokane, WA 2026 wildfires. Information include only verified facts from credible news sources. Information needs to be updated from when the largest fire started until it is completely put out. At that point, this website is complete and done. Include a page with air quality data. Provide air quality data on a daily basis from the onset of the fire to the end of the fire. Include Spokane, Kirkland, and Chimacum to compare the air quality from eastern WA near the fire, mid WA, and western WA. Include factors that explain the air quality such as winds, inversion, altitude of smoke and any other relevant data that students can view to answer questions. Provide a way for students to click on different variables to see how different factors affect the fire, direction of smoke, and air quality. Use the /inversa-design skill to make the website." Here is a portal page with links to all four sites: https://educatoral.com/2026SpokaneFire/ Step-by-step: 1. I identified the eastern Washington wildfires near Spokane as a topic for my two sixth-grade science classes. 2. I defined the website requirements: verified news updates, daily air quality data, comparisons among Spokane, Kirkland, and Chimacum, and a student-facing smoke and air quality simulation. 3. I used the same prompt with my paid Claude and Gemini Spark accounts and my free teacher ChatGPT and Claude accounts. 4. I compared the sites created by the four AI accounts to determine which one would be best to use with students. 5. I collected links to all four sites on this portal page: https://educatoral.com/2026SpokaneFire/

I used Claude Code to find scientific seminars hosted by colleges and universities across the US and collate them into a single, searchable list. Researchers can use it to find talks that match their interests near them. The site, seminarsearch.org, runs mostly on free-tier SaaS services, costs me $5 per month to operate, and currently supports a few thousand users. The same pattern could be adapted to collate all 5K runs in the US, tennis matches, craft shows, quilting bees, or any other type of event that interests you. I started by explaining to Claude what I wanted to build. We then spent a few hours exploring where and how to identify seminar calendars at universities across the US, which was arguably the hardest part. We developed a pluggable framework with scraping plugins for the common CMSs used by universities, along with iCal parsers, HTML parsers, and JavaScript interpreters to handle the complexity of normalizing content from hundreds of departmental websites. Once we had the seminar-scraping infrastructure, we built a database schema in Supabase and simple APIs to create, read, update, and delete records. The APIs are written in Python and hosted on Railway for $5 per month. We used Vercel to deploy a simple React-based frontend for presenting the data. Now I can ask Claude to implement a feature or add a new university to the list of sources. It figures out where the data is hosted, creates entries for the university and its departments, finds their seminar feeds, collects the seminar data, puts it into the database, and runs GitHub Actions to send alerts to registered users. The scraping job runs once a week to collect new data, and it also runs through GitHub Actions. I wrote zero code during this process and have never even looked at the code. I only had to paste a few error messages from Railway into Claude so it could debug them, and there were only a few errors. Since building seminarsearch.org, I have cloned the infrastructure and codebase and modified it to build a site that collects road bike rides and group mountain bike rides across the country. The system is highly extensible to new areas of interest and is useful when traveling or living in a large metropolitan area where it is difficult to keep track of all the opportunities available for your interests. Step-by-step: 1. I explained to Claude Code that I wanted to build a searchable directory of scientific seminars hosted by colleges and universities across the US. 2. We explored where and how to identify university seminar calendars, focusing on the challenge of finding sources across many institutions. 3. We built a pluggable scraping framework with plugins for common university CMSs, plus iCal parsers, HTML parsers, and JavaScript interpreters. 4. We created a Supabase database schema and simple Python APIs for creating, reading, updating, and deleting seminar records. 5. We hosted the APIs on Railway for $5 per month and deployed a React-based frontend on Vercel. 6. We configured Claude to add universities and implement features by finding source locations, creating university and department records, locating seminar feeds, collecting seminar data, and adding it to the database. 7. We used GitHub Actions to run the weekly scraping job and send alerts to registered users. 8. When Railway returned errors, I pasted a few error messages into Claude so it could debug them. 9. I cloned and modified the infrastructure and codebase to create additional sites for road bike rides and group mountain bike rides across the country.

I built a suite of teaching tools that work independently and together. Chalkline supports maths, while Penline supports literacy. Both tools provide quick access to the New Zealand curriculum for planning and feed information directly into my planning utility, Planline, making teacher planning faster. Planline integrates with Google Drive and is set up with Stripe billing for subscriptions. The suite also includes Compass World News, a news aggregator with a freemium model and a pro unlock. The apps are designed without user tracking. Findaroo is a freemium word-find game with ads. Slashkit helps Minecraft players quickly create commands to use in games. Everything is built into my website, www.danielsoutham.co.nz, which is hosted on Cloudflare. I push updates and changes through GitHub, so I can make changes—big or small—from anywhere, on any device. Changes are then pushed and merged in one prompt. Step-by-step: 1. I built Chalkline for maths and Penline for literacy, with each tool able to work independently. 2. I connected both tools to the New Zealand curriculum so teachers can quickly access it for planning. 3. I connected Chalkline and Penline to Planline so they can feed information into the planning utility. 4. I integrated Planline with Google Drive and set up Stripe billing for subscriptions. 5. I added Compass World News as a freemium news aggregator with a pro unlock and no user tracking. 6. I added Findaroo as a freemium word-find game supported by ads. 7. I built Slashkit to help Minecraft players quickly create commands for use in games. 8. I brought all of the apps together on www.danielsoutham.co.nz and hosted the website on Cloudflare. 9. I use GitHub to push and merge updates, allowing me to make changes from anywhere, on any device, in one prompt.

I built Future Quest to help sixth-grade students connect their career interests to the classes they are taking, especially the subjects they will encounter in sixth grade. Here's the prompt I used: > "Build me an interactive website portal for students to enter what they want to do when they grow up, or what they are interested in now, and what they are learning that they are not so interested in. Based on their entry/input choices make connections between what they are learning in school, especially what they will be learning in 6th grade, and how it's important to learn for their future based on what they want to do. Provide a link to a follow up site to show students images, website links, videos of their chosen profession or job or career ideas to get them excited about it drawing connections so how what they are learning in school will help them get there one day. This is for 6th grade students. Make it a single web page, mobile-friendly, in my brand colors that generates career pages for students created on the fly based on their input responses. Then give me the file so I can share or host it. > > Ask me some questions to make sure I get the best output possible." I used Claude Code and was amazed that it generated a one-page HTML file that creates a follow-up page for students based on their career choices. The page includes information about their chosen career and connections to the classes they are taking, helping them see how their current education can support the work they may want to do in the future. I created the site with a Star Trek theme based on my sixth-grade Math and Science classes: https://educatoral.com/equinox-future-quest.html It took about 25 minutes in total and about 9,000 tokens. Step-by-step: 1. I wrote a prompt describing an interactive, mobile-friendly, single-page portal for sixth-grade students. 2. I asked the portal to collect students' career interests, current interests, and subjects they are less interested in. 3. I asked it to connect students' school learning—especially sixth-grade classes—to their future career interests. 4. I asked it to provide images, website links, and videos about students' chosen professions, jobs, or career ideas. 5. I asked Claude Code to generate the page in my brand colors and provide a file I could share or host. 6. I used Claude Code to generate a one-page HTML file that creates career pages dynamically from students' responses. 7. I created the site with a Star Trek theme based on my sixth-grade Math and Science classes and shared it at https://educatoral.com/equinox-future-quest.html.

I regularly use ChatGPT for lesson planning and materials development with students ranging from EFL learners to UK undergraduates. I keep a separate anonymous thread for each student, so GPT can track the context and suggest the best direction for the next session. I also contribute my experience as a tutor while using AI to create fresh worksheets based on typical materials from various UK exam boards. Today, I had a successful interview for a lecturer role. Gemini helped me design and plan my demo seminar, and it looks like I’ve landed the job. Step-by-step: 1. I create a separate anonymous thread for each student. 2. I use ChatGPT to track each student’s context and suggest the best direction for the next session. 3. I combine AI-generated ideas with my experience as a tutor when planning lessons and developing materials. 4. I use typical materials from various UK exam boards as the basis for creating fresh worksheets. 5. For my lecturer interview, I used Gemini to design and plan my demo seminar. 6. I had a successful interview, and it looks like I’ve landed the job.

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I built three interconnected websites for the Solomon for Jesus ministry. The first, solomonforjesus.com, houses the shining jewel: an AI chatbot named Solomon. The second, solomonforjesus.net, is a ministry academy with four levels of instruction and 16 lessons per level. The third, solomonforjesus.net, is home to my book *Fingerprint of Reality* and other articles and essays. All three websites are still in development, but they are operating and publicly available. I use GitHub repositories for coding, Vercel for hosting, Cloudflare for domains, and Supabase for back-end security. Step-by-step: 1. I built three interconnected websites for the Solomon for Jesus ministry. 2. I used solomonforjesus.com for the Solomon AI chatbot. 3. I used solomonforjesus.net for the ministry academy, which contains four instructional levels with 16 lessons per level. 4. I used solomonforjesus.net for my book *Fingerprint of Reality* and other articles and essays. 5. I use GitHub repositories to code, Vercel to host, Cloudflare for domains, and Supabase for back-end security. 6. I keep all three websites operating and publicly available while they remain in development.

I need help creating a daily revision page covering Maths and English for my son as he prepares for the SEAG exam to get into Bangor Grammar School in Bangor, Northern Ireland.

I built a portal to manage lectures and applications for teaching sociology students at my university. It displays educational content, monitors attendance, supports pedagogical evaluation, and provides training in methodological skills. Step-by-step: 1. I built a portal for managing lectures and applications for sociology students at my university. 2. I added educational content for students to access. 3. I included attendance monitoring. 4. I added tools for pedagogical evaluation. 5. I incorporated training in methodological skills.

I’m building GradePath because schoolwork gets scattered quickly. A lecture, my notes, and the files for a class can all end up in different places. Then, when it’s time to study, I have to dig around to find what I need. The idea is simple: record a class, keep the recording and course materials together, and return to them later. If I ask Tutor about something, it should show me the relevant part of my notes, files, or class recording. If it can’t find an answer, it should say so. I also want students to be able to share useful study sheets with people who are actually in their class. I’m not trying to turn school into another content feed. I want to make it easier to keep up with a class and find the right material when I need it. Step-by-step: 1. I record a class. 2. I keep the recording, notes, and course materials together in GradePath. 3. I return to those materials when I need to study. 4. I ask Tutor about a topic and have it show the relevant part of my notes, files, or class recording. 5. If Tutor can’t find supporting material, it says so instead of presenting an unsupported answer. 6. I share useful study sheets with students who are in the same class.