Miller built Seen entirely with Claude and Lovable without writing code
Jacob Miller · From a Real Problem to a SaaS Product Buyers Wanted · Apr 21, 2026 · at 4:32
Jacob Miller, founder of Seen, discusses how he built his AI search visibility SaaS product despite having no background in software development.
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“I've never written a line of code in my life. If you offered me ten million dollars and said, I need you to write one line of code, well, I wouldn't make ten million dollars. Like, there's no way. So yeah, relied almost entirely on, on Claude code, Claude just prompting and then taking that and building it into lovable”
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