Anthony Cueva - products, writing, and shipping culture
2026
- The Next CraftA 12-hour in-person hackathon by Crafter Station and Next, bringing 300 builders together across Lima, Bogota, Guatemala, Arequipa, and El Salvador to ship real products.
- Build4LatamAn open network of tools, builders, and resources responding to emergencies across Latin America, growing the Build4Venezuela initiative into a regional platform.
- The Realtime HackathonA 39-hour online hackathon by Portal and Crafter Station for builders creating multiplayer, live-streaming, real-time location, and agentic AI products.
- I'm building a WhatsApp MCP!The launch post for Normal, a way to use WhatsApp as a source of information inside ChatGPT and Claude.
- NormalBring WhatsApp into ChatGPT and Claude to search conversations, summarize busy groups, find forgotten details, and draft replies with explicit permissions.
- Building a Claude Code cloneI built Cave Code, a minimal coding agent with a ten-word system prompt and a small set of file tools. A practical look at why smarter models need clearer, simpler instructions and more trust rather than increasingly complex harnesses.
- Vibe Coding Workshop: Prototype Products with Maca.shA hands-on workshop on my workflow for turning ideas into functional prototypes with coding agents. I shared workflows, skills, and practical ways to think through a product, break down tasks, iterate quickly, and use Maca.sh to prototype at nearly the speed of thought.
- LimonPaste a Google Maps restaurant link and get a shareable landing page built from its public details, photos, contact information, and reviews.
- TabNative autocomplete for macOS. Routine suggestions run locally, Deep Suggestions use the cloud only when requested, and every insertion stays under the user's control.
- Build4VenezuelaA humanitarian hackathon and multilingual platform for builders responding to the Venezuela earthquakes. I co-organized the initiative and helped build the project platform.
- Actually building with AIPublished on Substack
- Hello world!Published on Substack
- Peruvian Elections 2026 BotA focused bot for following Peru's 2026 election process and checking election-related updates without digging through official sites.
- Local Background RemoverWhy pay subscriptions or credits to remove the backgrounds of your images? I created Local Background Remover to fix that. Pay once, use your computer's resources, and remove hundreds or thousands of images. My first product with revenue.
- Viral on InstagramI have recorded a lot of video demos and product launches. This is the first one that went viral: 20k views and 600 likes.
- OpencoderLike Claude Code apps, but works with any model. Run opencode in the cloud.
- Crafter Station's First In-Person Event in BogotaThe first Code Brew in Bogota marked Crafter Station's first in-person community event in Colombia, bringing local builders together over coffee, code, and conversation.