"how to turn a free instagram scraper into a $12k/month saas in 3 hours using claude code (here's the exact step-by-step) while everyone's overthinking "how to build saas," i've done this 7 times the blueprint is stupidly simple once you know the sequence most people are sitting on goldmines and don't even realize it here's the real sauce everyone's hiding: step 1: hit github, find your goldmine search "instagram-scraper python" or "tiktok-scraper nodejs" look for repos with 1k+ stars and recent commits pick one that solves a real business need (this takes 15 minutes max) step 2: claude code becomes your technical co-founder upload the library to claude code what to ask: "wrap this scraping library in a fastapi rest api with proper error handling, rate limiting, and authentication" demand specific endpoints and complete openapi documentation (claude does 90% of the heavy lifting) step 3: make it production-ready tell claude: "create docker container setup with deployment scripts" get monitoring, logging, and documentation included this step separates amateurs from pros step 4: build the frontend in minutes take your openapi.yaml to v0, bolt or lovable prompt: "build a saas dashboard with user auth, analytics, and stripe integration" include your entire api spec in the prompt step 5: deploy and monetize - api on railway ($5/month) - frontend on vercel (free) - stripe for payments you now have a complete saas i've been exactly where you are staring at successful tools thinking "how the hell do they build these?" the truth? it's not complex engineering anymore it's knowing the right tools and right sequence you could start this today while others are still wondering "how do people make money online?" the cheat code has been right there the whole time most people just don't know where to look"