I Built a Live AI Web App With a Working Paywall in One Weekend — Zero Coding Experience. Here's What Broke.

My only prior technical experience was opening game files in Notepad++. Last weekend I built and deployed a working AI-powered web tool - complete with a paywall, access codes, PDF download, and a live URL. I wrote zero code. Claude wrote all of it. What I actually did was describe, test, and report back when things broke. Turns out that's most of the job. Here's what stopped me cold and how each one got fixed: The Netlify timeout - Claude takes 15-25 seconds to respond. Netlify's free ti er kills functions after 10 seconds. Every request timed out.