From Idea to MVP in a Weekend 🚀

Saturday Morning: Think with Claude (2 hours)

Don't open your code editor. Open Claude. Describe your idea, your target user, and the core problem. Ask Claude to:

• Poke holes in your idea, what would make this fail?
• Define the MVP scope, what's the ONE thing it needs to do?
• Write a technical spec, database schema, API routes, key components
• List the exact pages/screens needed (keep it to 3-5 max)

You'll walk away with a clear spec that prevents scope creep later.

Claude

Saturday Late Morning: Prototype UI with v0 (2 hours)

Take your spec from Claude and paste it into v0. Ask it to generate your main page components. You're not building the final UI, you're getting a visual prototype that's actually made of real React + Tailwind code. This means you can use it directly later.

Generate 3-5 components, iterate on the ones that look right, and download the code. You now have production-quality UI components before lunch.

v0

Saturday Afternoon: Wire it up in Cursor (4 hours)

Create a Next.js project. Drop in the v0 components. Now use Cursor to:

• Connect the components together with routing
• Add form handling and state management
• Write API routes for your backend logic
• Feed it your Claude spec for context. Cursor's codebase awareness makes this seamless

By dinner, you should have a working frontend with placeholder data.

Cursor

Sunday Morning: Add the backend with Supabase (3 hours)

Create a Supabase project. Take the database schema from your Claude spec and create the tables. Supabase gives you:

• Postgres database with a visual table editor
• Auth (email/password, Google, GitHub), 5 minutes to set up
• Row-level security policies for protecting data
• Auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs

Use Cursor to write the Supabase client integration. It knows the Supabase SDK well.

Supabase

Sunday Afternoon: Deploy on Vercel (30 min)

Push to GitHub. Connect the repo to Vercel. Click deploy. That's literally it. Set your environment variables for Supabase, and you have a live URL you can share with the world.

Every future push auto-deploys. Every PR gets a preview URL. You're not just deployed, you have a professional CI/CD pipeline.

Vercel