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Startup Stories - Mixergy

#2294 He Claude Code: Build Me a YouTube Replacement

Startup Stories - Mixergy

Andrew Warner

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4.5591 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

When YouTube kicked Pat Walls’ Starter Story channel off the platform, he spent a weekend getting Claude Code to build him a replacement. I wanted to see how it was done, so he walked me through it step-by-step. Turns out it was a mistake and he’s back on YouTube, but the site he made was so good that it’s his company’s new homebase.

Pat Walls is the founder of Starter Story, a media and education company that helps entrepreneurs learn how real businesses get built. Starter Story generates over $2M a year through subscriptions, courses, and content, and its YouTube channel reaches millions of viewers each month. A former software engineer turned creator, Pat is known for experimenting publicly with new tools—most recently using AI to rebuild his own video platform when YouTube put his business at risk.

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0:00.0

Hey there, Freedom Fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I'm the founder of Mixergy, where I interview

0:03.2

entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. And today I've got Pat Walls, a guy who had made it

0:08.0

really big on YouTube with his starter story. It's a collection of YouTube videos featuring him flying

0:14.4

out to entrepreneurs who built these incredible companies to find out how they did it in person.

0:20.6

Anyway, sad thing happened.

0:22.6

YouTube basically wanted to shut him down and I'd watch him get strike after strike

0:27.6

and thought that he was going to be gone and so did he.

0:31.6

And just when he was feeling like it was the end,

0:35.6

he decided to have Claude code build him a new video

0:38.9

platform and the freaking thing just worked out. I didn't watch him, but I saw on Twitter as he was

0:45.7

basically live tweeting his process. Anyway, I asked him how he used Claude Code and he said,

0:53.1

you want to see it? And I said, hell yeah. So he did a screen share with me, which is what you're about to listen to, and he showed me step by step how he did it. Now, listening to a screen share is not that interesting, right? So why don't you come over to my new YouTube channel where I've got a collection of these types of show and tell videos and see it.

1:13.2

All you have to do is go to the next new thing.aI slash YouTube.

1:19.4

That's the next new thing.

1:21.7

Dot AI slash YouTube and you'll see it.

1:24.7

And of course, if you're someone who just prefers to stick with audio, I think we do a good

1:29.1

job describing what's on the screen, but I'll let you decide.

1:32.7

And if you ever want to come back to YouTube, remember my new YouTube channel.

1:37.4

It's the next new thing.a.i slash YouTube.

1:40.9

And this interview, like the others in this AI series, are presented by Zapier, the AI

1:47.0

automation company that I've used for so long that I'm literally their first customer. All right,

1:52.4

let's get to it. Last year we did over two million. Then YouTube comes in and says, what to you?

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