6 months ago I couldn't write a line of code. Today my product is live.

I come from crypto trading, not engineering. Half a year ago I couldn't code at all. On day one I spent hours fighting PowerShell and OAuth errors just to get the tools running. That was my level.

My problem as a trader was always the same: entering positions on emotion, with half a plan in my head. Notes in Notion, numbers in Excel, charts in TradingView. The plan never lived in one place, so it quietly rewrote itself every time the candle moved.

So I built the tool I actually wanted. One canvas where you build the trade before you take it: entry points, TP/SL, risk, live prices, a discipline checklist. It won't even let you open a trade without a stop loss.

I vibe-coded the whole thing with Claude Code, from zero to shipped in about six months. Somewhere in the middle I deleted 18,000 lines of my own legacy code. Deleting turned out to be much harder than building.

It's free, no signup, and your data stays in your browser: cryptohord-xyz.vercel.app

Shipping taught me more in one day than planning did in six months. My first users showed up, and almost all of them were on mobile. I had built desktop-first. Now I'm reworking that, based on what real people actually did instead of what I guessed.

To everyone who shipped their first product without a technical background: what surprised you most? What turned out to be harder than anyone warned you about?