What Resources Means Here
Resources are the Crafter's Lab toolbox: practical guides, videos, templates, blueprints, prompts, and downloads built for solo devs working with AI tools and agents. This is the place to grab what helps you ship, unblock, design, automate, and organize your own products.
All paid members, starting with Builder Pass, get the full Lab resource library. Higher tiers add private Notion teamspaces, focused Slack rooms, Crew AMA, requests, and mentorship layers, but the resource library itself starts with Builder.
The point is not to collect random tutorials. Each resource is shaped by real indie work: app builds, refactors, design passes, AI workflow experiments, launch prep, and the systems I use while building the Lab.
What You Get
A resource can be small and tactical or deep and reusable. Some are quick references. Some are full walkthroughs. Some include downloads or project files. The shared standard is simple: it should help a solo developer move from stuck to shipping.
- Step-by-step guides and video walkthroughs for real app-building situations.
- Code and UI blueprints, starter patterns, and reusable implementation notes.
- AI prompts, agent workflows, and OpenClaw-style operating systems.
- Figma files, design references, App Store assets, and product templates.
- Notion systems, planning docs, release workflows, and solo-dev ops material.
- Downloadable ZIPs or starter files when a resource needs more than text.
Built From Real Indie Projects
The best resources come from real pressure: a screen that needed to feel better, an onboarding flow that had to convert, a production problem that needed clearer context, or an agent workflow that had to save time instead of creating more work.
That is why the library leans toward working examples, breakdowns, templates, and reusable systems. Not theory for theory's sake. Not filler. A toolbox for builders who are trying to make real apps with limited time.
How The Library Grows
New resources come from real work happening inside the Lab: builds, refactors, experiments, member questions, agent workflows, launch lessons, and useful patterns worth saving.
Some updates may be small and tactical. Others may be deeper videos, revised guides, templates, or ZIP files when that is the more useful handoff. The promise is steady practical value, not forced content for its own sake.
Four Paths, 16 Distinct Series
The paths help you choose a direction. The categories inside them are separate series, each with its own kind of lesson, proof, and practical outcome. They are not the same tutorial format with a different tool name.
Build with AI
Improve how you plan, delegate, code, and ship with AI.
Repeatable process → tool mastery → real-project delegation → reusable capability
AI Workflows
Workflow guides
Repeatable processes that connect tools, decisions, and automations into a useful result.
Claude Code
Ordered masterclass
A structured curriculum for understanding and operating the full Claude Code stack.
Codex
Project field notes
Real product tasks traced from scope and delegation through review, tests, and outcome.
AI Skills
Capability drops
Small, verified skill packages that add one reusable capability to an agent.
Build and operate agents
Construct capable agents, give them real work, and run them reliably.
Build the harness → assign the work → operate the system → own the runtime
Pi Agent
Agent workshops
Build agent machinery through extensions, custom tools, orchestration, and inspectable execution.
Hermes Agent
Agent assignments
Give a personal agent a real responsibility, inspect its result, and judge where it helps.
OpenClaw for Devs
Operations workshops
Configure, connect, deploy, secure, and maintain an agent system in day-to-day use.
Local AI
Private-runtime experiments
Test models and agents on local hardware for privacy, performance, and practical usefulness.
Apple Product Lab
Turn Apple platform capabilities into thoughtful, reliable products.
Intelligent feature → development feedback system → platform opportunity → durable craft
Apple Intelligence
Product experiments
Prototype and evaluate intelligent features inside a real Apple-platform product.
Xcode Harness
Reliability experiments
Improve the build, test, Simulator, debugging, and project-context signals agents depend on.
WWDC
Event briefings
Timely judgment on what Apple announced, what is ready, and what deserves a first build.
Modern SwiftUI
Engineering workshops
Make stronger code and architecture decisions with modern SwiftUI APIs and patterns.
Run the solo studio
Build the operating system, judgment, and assets behind a one-person product studio.
Operate the studio → make better decisions → design the product → start from working code
Notion Ops
Workspace operations
Build and run the live Notion systems behind planning, releases, knowledge, and administration.
Solo Dev Journey
Studio field notes
Honest, evidence-backed lessons from real product decisions, launches, setbacks, and results.
Figma Foundations
Design build-alongs
Create and adapt editable design foundations, UI systems, and App Store assets.
App Blueprints
Project tours
Explore complete running starter projects, their architecture, and the places to make them your own.
Choose By The Outcome
When two categories use similar tools, choose the category by the result you need:
- AI Workflows or Codex? Choose AI Workflows for a transferable process; choose Codex to inspect one delegated product task.
- Pi, Hermes, or OpenClaw? Choose Pi to build the agent, Hermes to give it a responsibility, and OpenClaw to operate the system.
- Apple Intelligence or Local AI? Choose Apple Intelligence for a feature inside an app; choose Local AI for the model, hardware, privacy, and runtime layer.
- WWDC or a durable Apple series? Choose WWDC while the event and release state are the story; choose the relevant Apple category once implementation is the story.
- Modern SwiftUI or App Blueprints? Choose Modern SwiftUI for a code decision; choose App Blueprints for a complete working foundation.
- AI Skills or AI Workflows? Choose AI Skills for a reusable skill package; choose AI Workflows for the broader process around it.
How To Use Resources
Browse the live library, open a category, then pick the resource that matches the job in front of you. Watch, read, copy, download, remix, and adapt the parts that fit your app.
- Use the category grid when you want to browse by area.
- Use resource pages when you want the full guide, video, download, or implementation notes.
- Start a discussion below a resource when you want feedback, clarification, or a second pair of eyes.
- Follow the connected discussion in Crew Log or Slack when the thread keeps going.
Open the live Resources library to see the current categories and published resources.
Always Growing
Resources are a paid member benefit included from Builder Pass onward, and the library is designed to grow with the Lab. I can add categories, publish useful drops, revise old guides, and turn recurring member questions into new resources.
That is why this docs page explains the resource system instead of freezing the category list. The live library is where the current toolbox lives.