He Claude Code: Build Me a YouTube Replacement

Pat Walls, Starter Story, AI, B2B, Content

When YouTube kicked Pat Walls’ Starter Story channel off the platform, he spent a weekend getting Claude Code to build him a replacement. I wanted to see how it was done, so he walked me through it step-by-step.
Turns out it was a mistake and he’s back on YouTube, but the site he made was so good that it’s his company’s new homebase.

Pat Walls

Pat Walls

Starter Story

Pat Walls is the founder of Starter Story, a media and education company that helps entrepreneurs learn how real businesses get built. Starter Story generates over $2M a year through subscriptions, courses, and content, and its YouTube channel reaches millions of viewers each month. A former software engineer turned creator, Pat is known for experimenting publicly with new tools—most recently using AI to rebuild his own video platform when YouTube put his business at risk.

Hey there, freedom Fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. And today I’ve got Pat Walls, a guy who had made it really big on YouTube with his starter story. It’s a collection of YouTube videos featuring him flying out to entrepreneurs who built these incredible companies to find out how they did it in person.

Um, anyway. Sad thing happened. YouTube basically wanted to shut him down and I’d watched him get strike after strike and thought that he was gonna be gone, and so did he. And just when he was feeling like it was the end, he decided to have Claude Code, build him a new video platform. And the fricking thing just worked out.

I, I, I didn’t watch him, but I saw on Twitter as he was basically live tweeting his process. Anyway, I asked him how he used Claude code and he said, you wanna see it? And I said, hell yeah. So he did a screen share...

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