I built a bread baking schedule app in 3 hours with Claude Code — without writing a single line of code

The Problem
I got into sourdough baking recently. If you've tried it, you know — it's a 20-hour process with a lot of waiting and precise timing.
Feed your starter. Wait 5 hours. Mix the dough. Wait 30 minutes. Add salt. Fold every 30 minutes for 2 hours. Shape. Proof overnight. Bake in the morning.
Every time I baked, I'd set a dozen phone alarms and still miss steps. I wanted a simple app that would calculate all the timestamps for me.
I know frontend development, but the thought of spending weeks building all the logic kept stopping me.
Then I tried Claude Code.

The Build Process
I just talked to Claude like I was a client describing what I wanted:
"I want a bread baking schedule app. I pick a recipe, set my start time,
and it shows me all the steps with exact timestamps."
Within seconds — a working React app.
Then I kept iterating:

"Add a dropdown with different recipes" → Done
"Show ingredients for each recipe" → Done
"Let me set the END time and calculate backwards" → Done
"Deploy it to GitHub Pages" → Done

Each request took seconds. No Googling. No Stack Overflow. No debugging missing semicolons.
Total time: 3 hours of conversation.
(Okay, plus waiting for rate limits to reset 😅)

The Result
Flour Hour — a bread baking schedule planner with:

📋 22 recipes — sourdough, croissants, brioche, focaccia, bagels, cinnamon rolls, discard pancakes, and more
⏰ Flexible scheduling — set start time OR work backwards from when you want to eat
📝 Ingredient lists — for each recipe
📱 Mobile-friendly — works on any device

Tech Stack

• React + Vite — frontend framework
• GitHub Pages — free hosting
• Google Analytics — tracking visitors

And I didn't write a single line of code myself.

What Surprised Me

1. It understood context I didn't have to explain everything each time. Claude remembered what we'd built and made changes in the right places.
2. It handled the boring stuff Deployment configs, CSS path issues, file structure — Claude just handled it.
3. It felt like collaboration I'd describe a problem, and Claude would sometimes suggest a better approach than what I had in mind.

Try It
🔗 Live app: https://yaninatrekhleb.github.io/flour-hour/
💻 GitHub: https://github.com/YaninaTrekhleb/flour-hour

If you've been sitting on an app idea because the technical work feels overwhelming — try just talking to Claude about it.
You might surprise yourself.

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