How to use Claude Code to build 10x faster at your startup

If you're a startup founder, you should 100% be using Claude code to build your product. I'm gonna show you how to build 10 times faster and talk about why traditional PRD's are dead. I'm Pete. I own a software development agency in New York City, and we work with startups and Fortune 500 companies to bring their products to market. In the past seven weeks, I've been building a social network nearly all by myself, and nothing I've ever built has come together this fast. I jokingly told a PM recently that by the time I explain the need to you and you draft the PRD, to get the whole process started, I'll have built it, tested it, push it to test flight, and then already started receiving feedback. But the truth is, when you move this fast, things start to come apart at the seams. So how do you fix that? The unlock is markdown files with cascading context. It's living documentation. You write product requirements as markdown files in your repo. It's organized like a tree. Claude reads the local file and all the parent files up to the root. That's cascading context. Then when you tell it to build a new feature or modify an existing one, it'll build it and update every relevant markdown file all the way up the tree. Before you commit. Your technical docs and your product docs evolve with your code automatically. This workflow, this is the foundation needed to build fast without chaos. So now your sales team has really, like, no excuse to sell features that don't exist. Um, everything is updated seamlessly. So I wrote a Substack article called The Death of the PRD. With the full setup and best practices. There's a link in the bio. And I'm also gonna post some videos later this week about git worktrees and Claude skills that can be stacked on top of this workflow to get you doing the work of 10 people.