Nick Saraev

🔥 Join Maker School & get customer #1 guaranteed: https://skool.com/makerschool/about 📁 Get all Claude course resources 100% free: https://skool.com/maker-zero/about ➡️ If this is your first video: I'm Nick Saraev. I run LeftClick, an AI growth agency. We've done work for large brands you're likely familiar with, like Mr. Beast, Anthropic, OpenAI, and a few others. In plain English: I help people build systems that generate leads, close deals, and scale businesses, mostly using new AI models like Claude. I also make videos about how to do all of that here on YouTube. It hasn't always been this way. My family immigrated from a Soviet bloc country (People's Republic of Bulgaria) in the 90s. They worked extremely hard, and we were broke for a very long time. I grew up wishing for more security, stability, and freedom over my own life. I don't have a programming degree, and never took formal education for IT or workflows. I learned it all myself from YouTube videos like you're watching now. As for my path: I started my first business at 19 in college. We threw events (mostly parties) at campus bars, and charged people for entry. That failed to provide me enough money to pay my bills, so at 21, I started another business, a door-to-door marketing agency. From there, every year, I would start several companies, over 10 in total. I did this in a variety of industries, like e-commerce, photography, videography, SaaS, credit repair, etc. Each grew slightly more profitable, until, at 25, I would start 1SecondCopy, a content writing company. A friend and I eventually scaled that to over $90,000/m. It was my first taste of financial independence, and the reason I'm here today. Since starting my journey, I've grown a fair bit of capital. To diversify my income, at 30, I began investing in other businesses and advising companies on how to grow in the AI era. These include SaaS businesses, like Clairvo, agencies like Dental Connect, and more. Collectively, the businesses that I own outright or are a part of generate over $10 million per year. This returns far more than the 5-10% you would get in the stock market, but also requires a lot of my active time. There's a tradeoff there, but I greatly prefer active investing, where I have control over the entities I'm a part of. It wasn't easy to get here. But I did in the end! For anyone on their own entrepreneurial journey: I wish you luck, happiness, and perseverance. You can make it! Summary ⤵️ The end-to-end, definitive course on Claude Code for beginners! I'll take you through a full four-hour masterclass where I start by teaching you how to set up and install Claude Code in a tutorial, how to configure your IDE or integrated development environment (we'll use Antigravity), how to utilize your CLAUDE.md file as your project brain, how to build your first project in Antigravity using Claude Code in under 15 minutes, advanced Claude Code functionality including hooks, slash commands, and more. I also teach you how to spin up multiple Claude Code instances and have them work on your behalf; how to parallelize work using sub-agents; how to use Git work trees to accomplish many hours of work in just a few minutes; how to conserve tokens and use context management to crush your coding and software projects; how to deploy things to the cloud using Modal and related services, and in general... how to be awesome at Claude Code! Hope you enjoy the tutorial. Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction to the Claude Code Tutorial 00:01:07 Learning the Basics of Claude Code 00:03:44 Setting Up Claude Code 00:08:05 Terminal vs. Graphical User Interface 00:12:23 Understanding IDEs 00:13:53 Exploring Visual Studio Code 00:19:11 Getting Started with Antigravity 00:24:01 Building Your First Web App with Claude Code 00:30:29 Utilizing the CLAUDE.md File (Project Brain) 00:34:40 Approaches to Website Design in CC +Antigravity 00:41:47 Importance of Verification in AI 00:54:42 Advanced Claude Code Functionality 00:55:13 Understanding the .claude Directory 02:01:24 Adjusting the Proposal Design 02:01:55 Testing Payment Functionality 02:05:20 Leveraging GitHub for Project Management 02:06:12 Setting Up the Project 02:07:50 The Power of Automation 02:13:53 Context Management Explained 02:19:56 Understanding MCP Tools 02:27:23 Strategies for Token Management 02:35:29 Creating Skills for Efficiency 02:41:15 The Structure of Skills 02:44:39 Building a New Skill 02:50:58 Introduction to Model Context Protocol 02:58:15 Evaluating Token Usage in MCPs 03:09:07 Exploring Claude Code Plugins 03:11:08 Introduction to Sub-Agents 03:12:15 Transforming Skills into Sub-Agents 03:14:14 Scaling Email Classification 03:18:54 Creating Useful Sub-Agents 03:26:27 Understanding Agent Teams 03:32:59 Enabling and Using Agent Teams 04:02:34 Utilizing Git Worktrees 04:03:08 Deploying APIs with Modal