... Just to introduce myself, I'm greg. I'm an ex-founder, now doing IT consulting and fractional CTO stuff, and recently started building beanies.family because my family needed a way to stay organized (or, I did). I've been building software and doing IT stuff for over two decades, and I can talk about it forever, so just tell me if I get annoying :) I write on substack about the hows and whys of beanies.family

... with PayPal because I already had the account laying around. Might add Stripe later. I just went with a pay as you go credit based system and I just track the credits in my own DB. Tools/Process: Fired up VS Code, installed Claude Code, used it to author everything for the front end and back end. Used Amazon Q to help me setup all the cloud infrastructure. Went with Elastic Beanstalk