Paul
I co-founded and ran a popular website which had millions of monthly visitors called allkpop.com. I did this for nearly 18 years and left in late 2025.
From my experience at allkpop, I knew you needed a staff to edit the code, fix bugs, and keep the infrastructure running. People like to call that “Gatekeeping" and that was a huge barrier of entry for anyone who wanted to just come in and build something.
I was thinking about what to do next and had several ideas. I asked various development companies for estimates on how much it would cost to launch one of the platforms I had in mind and it was in the mid six figure USD range. I thought about it and asked myself, “is it worth risking that much money on an idea that might not work?” Instead of using my own money I contemplated about possible seed funding, or alternatives like hiring developers on Upwork at 10% of the cost, but none of it really felt right.
In the midst of all this I came across Claude Code. After just trying it out for a few hours, I knew I could actually develop everything myself. I have basic coding skills and some knowledge of devops and infrastructure, but not enough to develop entire codebases on my own. What would take a full team several months to do, Claude Code could push out in a week. I thought I solved the problem. I was wrong.
I ship a lot of sites. Most of them are built with Claude Code, sometimes in a weekend, sometimes over a few weeks. The build part is fun, but the "now what" part is where I kept getting stuck. How do I get my new site known to others?
I tried Product Hunt. I tried the usual launch places, and the pattern was the same every time. If a known hunter wasn't backing you, your post sat at the bottom of the page and nobody ever saw it. The top slots went to whoever had the network, not whoever had the better thing. I'd watch projects with a working demo and a clear use case get fewer votes than a landing page with a waitlist, because the landing page got hunted and mine didn't.
That's a fine game if you're already inside it. I wasn't, and most people building with Claude Code aren't either. A lot of us are solo, or two people, or someone who “Vibe Codes” on the side. We don't have a hunter on speed dial. We just have the thing we made.
The rules are boring on purpose
So I built ClaudeFolio. Here is how it works:
- Anyone can submit. No invite, no hunter, no waitlist.
- Every project starts at zero votes. Yours, mine, everyone's, make it a fair game. Don't try to game votes, that will result in a ban and removal of your submission.
- The feed is sorted by what people actually upvote, not by who posted it.
- One project per submission. No bundle deals, no "and here's my five other things."
What ClaudeFolio is not
It's not trying to replace Product Hunt. Product Hunt works for a certain kind of launch, with a certain kind of network behind it, and that's fine. ClaudeFolio is for the rest of us. It's the place where a site built with Claude Code gets a fair look, gets seen by people who care about that specific thing, and lives somewhere permanent instead of falling off a daily feed at midnight.
No daily reset. No "you missed your window." If your project is good and people find it useful six months from now, it should still be discoverable six months from now. That's how the feed is built.
This is for the solo founders
If you've shipped something with Claude Code and you're staring at the URL wondering where to put it and how people can find it, this is for you. If you're a solo builder who doesn't want to spend a week coordinating a launch, this is for you. If you've ever watched your project get buried under a wall of waitlists, this is for you.
If you've been building and wondering where to put it, put it here.
