THE HOUSE WAS A MESS. SO I BUILT AN APP.

Hey lovely

I was lying in bed this morning trying to work out what to write to you.

It's Sunday. Newsletter day.

Over the past few weeks I have been working a lot. The business is evolving quickly and with mums signing up all the time, I am working way more than I normally do. Which is pretty normal for this stage of business.

As a result, the house is a bit of a mess. To put it mildly. There are dishes in the sink, washing on the line from two days ago, and a general sense that chaos has quietly moved in and made itself at home. There are only so many hours in the day and in the order of priority, cleaning isn't in the top three.

But I do not live in this house by myself. And when one person is working a lot, the rest are meant to step in and help. That's how teamwork works, right?

Well. I have heard every bloody excuse in the world.

"I didn't know that had to be done."

"Oh, I didn't even think of that."

"Can you just leave us a list and we'll do it?"

No I mother fucking can't. Is what I say in my head. And instead I calmly (let's all pretend that part is true) explain that it is not my job, and that all they have to do is open their eyes and their noses, and everything that needs doing is right there in front of them.

So today I decided I was done dealing with it. And I fixed it once and for all.

I built an app.

This app has every task that needs doing in our house, and every family member. Everyone can assign themselves jobs. And once enough jobs are done, their Yo-Chi cup fills up and we take them to Yo-Chi.

I gamified it hard for my gamer husband. Made it ADHD-friendly for my undiagnosed-but-likely kids. Is it perfect? No. I've already found things to fix. But does it do what I need it to do? Absolutely. And that is good enough for now.

If my husband asks, it was extremely hard to build and required advanced coding skills.

It did not. It took me five hours, Claude was doing the work most of the time, and ironically I probably could have done the cleaning in the moments I was waiting for it to finish. Don't tell him that part either.

Here's what's actually mental. I have never built an app before in my life. Not once. I've never written a line of code. Before Claude, I hadn't even built a website. What I did today was have a conversation with Claude Code. That's it. That's all it was.

And here's the thing that got me thinking.

Claude has removed every excuse we had.

There's no more "I'm not tech savvy." You don't need to be. "I can't afford a website designer, a graphic designer, an app developer, a VA, or a copywriter." Claude costs $34 a month.

I want to call something out and it might sound harsh. It's not meant to. But I believe in accountability and I think this needs to be said.

You don't necessarily need Village Circles to figure this out. You can do it on your own. What Village Circles will do is get you there faster, much easier, and without the hours you'd otherwise spend watching shitty YouTube videos full of jargon that make you want to close the laptop and never touch Claude again.

We teach you how to actually talk to Claude and get the best out of it. Once you know that, Claude teaches you the rest. It will hold your hand through everything you want to do and will even do the work for you. Like building you an app.

The average result from Claude is available to everyone. The good result is a skill. And it is absolutely a skill you can learn.

Every fortnight. Hands on. You leave with something actually built, not a concept you'll forget by Tuesday.

Talk soon,

Sandra x