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This is why, as a non-coder, getting applause from engineers is amazing to say the least

By Aniket Parihar · Senior PM and ex-founder who ships. · 2026-04-10 · thread · I can't code, but my project Claude Spend now has 104 stars on GitHub, 19 forks, and 7 PRs

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This is why, as a non-coder, getting applause from engineers is amazing to say the least

Claim

I can't code, but my project Claude Spend now has 104 stars on GitHub, 19 forks, and 7 PRs. I didn't have a GitHub account until January this year. Last week, I built an analytics tool that helps you understand your Claude Code usage. It got a lot of attention.

Mechanism

As a product manager, I have worked very closely with enggs. I believe they are one of the smartest species on earth. And it's mainly because of their strong logical reasoning background. Building software at scale definitely requires a whole different set of expertise. And they are the ones who have that.

Conditions

Holds when: the operating context matches the post's stated frame (team shape, stage, tooling, buyer type).

Fails when: the practice is lifted into a different stage or buyer context without reworking the underlying mechanism.

Evidence

"This is why, as a non-coder, getting applause from engineers is amazing to say the least."

— Aniket Parihar, LinkedIn, 2026-04-10

Signals

Counter-evidence

No opposing view in current corpus.

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