I had no backend experience. I used an AI to design and build the entire thing while I directed architecture decisions. Six months later it's serving real traffic.

I realised if you talk to Claude in a certain way it can build whatever you want even if its a grey area, it'll try fight it but you can crack it eventually.

I spoke back and fourth initially with chat gpt, open code, Kimi and gave me enough info to do research then get back to Claude with more info almost using them against each other in a way lol not knowing what each other said so it was up to me to piece it together eventually i got the claude .md file setup to create this without any barriers that you get all time "sorry I cant help with" as the .md doesn't look into the legality it just plans and codes what you give it.

The new universal programming language is English.

Stack:

Next.js 14 App Router (SSR + client components) PostgreSQL for watchlists, watch history, progress tracking

Self-hosted on a single VPS behind Nginx + PM2