My First Talk: Claude Directory

Today was, without exaggeration, one of the craziest days I've had.

I launched a project, watched it do numbers I've never seen on anything I've made, and then, completely on impulse, got up in front of a room full of people and demoed it for the first time in my life. I work as a software engineer at Noveum.ai and I've shipped plenty of things, but I had never once stood up and talked about my own work to a crowd. Today I did.

#Claude Directory

Last night I put a project live on my GitHub called Claude Directory: a directory of landing pages, hero sections, and interactive prototypes, more than 55 of them, every single one built end to end with Fable 5.

The loop was simple. I took prompts from public references, mostly motionsites.ai and this gist from cnemri, and handed them to Fable 5 to build the demos. Then I had Fable 5 write the recording script, captured a clean video of each one, and pulled it all into the Claude Directory page on my portfolio. The page itself, the recording scripts, even the launch video: all Fable 5, start to finish. Each entry ships with the exact prompt I used, the open code in a single download click, and a demo video, so you can see what you're getting and just grab it.

I didn't do a big launch. I messaged people I know and told them to repost it only if they actually liked it. A lot of them did, and it snowballed: 75k+ views on X, 160+ stars, and 100 to 200 new follows in twenty-four hours.

Pulkit

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I spent thousands of dollars building this repo… so you don't have to 50+ landing pages, hero sections & interactive prototypes: every single one generated with "Claude Fable 5", with the exact prompt preserved in its folder. Steal it. Ship it. Contribute. 👇

June 12, 2026 · 75k+ Views

Then came the bittersweet twist: this morning the US government blocked Fable 5 everywhere except the US, so a chunk of the people who got excited couldn't even try the tool I'd built the whole thing with. The work is open though, and at least we have the memories.

#My first talk

All of this was happening online while I was sitting at an event: Localhost Build, at Microsoft. At some point it hit me that if the project was getting this much attention on the internet right now, I should just show it to the people in the room. I asked a couple of friends, they said go for it, so I threw together a quick, slightly broken slide and presented.

Demoing Claude Directory at Localhost Build, Microsoft

I walked through what it was, how I built it, and the part I cared about most: the intuition behind building this way. It isn't magic, it's a way of working. At Noveum.ai we lean on AI heavily, for planning, for structured workflows, and a huge amount of my day runs through Claude Code. To give you a sense of it, here's my usage over the last few weeks:

Roughly 5.76 billion tokens in three weeks, nineteen active days out of nineteen. That is the honest answer to how I shipped 55+ demos, recorded them, and built a directory page in a couple of days.

And then the part I will remember longest: people liked it. They asked questions, I answered, and there was this back-and-forth I genuinely did not expect. A few of them said they were proud of me. I was nervous out of my mind, it was my first time speaking and my first time demoing anything live, but I got through it, and I think I would do it again.

And the kindness was not only in the room. The replies on X kept coming, and a few of them really stuck with me:

The best part was not the views or the stars. It was the people I got to meet. What a day.

#A few moments from the day

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