← davidkhieu.com
Ecommerce operator · built with Claude Code

One operator, one AI partner, and the platform a multi-brand ecommerce business runs on

I'm David Khieu. I've spent 15+ years running Amazon, Wayfair and marketplace businesses. I'm not a career software engineer. Since April 2026 I've built the operations platform for Nice and Co. on Lovable, working with Claude Code every day, and the business runs on it.

~397Klines of code
295server functions
890database migrations
78app pages
5,760commits since April 2026

Counted from the main branch of the production repository on October 22, 2026.

What the platform does

It replaces the spreadsheets, portals and copy-paste that a small team normally uses to run several consumer brands across retailers.

Amazon 1P and 3P

Purchase orders to shipments

Pulls vendor purchase orders through the Amazon SP-API, confirms quantities, builds shipments and labels, and tracks receipts against what was billed.

Catalog

Listings across channels

One catalog feeds Amazon, Wayfair and Lowe's Marketplace, with AI-written content checked against each retailer's rules before anything is submitted.

Pricing

Margin models that ship

Prices are built from real carrier label costs, fees and returns, with margin floors per channel, so every offer is profitable before it goes live.

Retail integrations

EDI and marketplace APIs

In-house X12 EDI plus the Amazon SP-API, Mirakl (Lowe's) and Wayfair APIs, so orders, ship notices and invoices move without a third-party provider.

Fulfillment

Labels, freight and dropship

Rate shopping across carriers, freight bookings, multi-box shipments and dropship routing to partner warehouses.

Finance

Payouts and books

Reconciles marketplace payouts to orders, tracks what each client brand is owed, and prepares the monthly books close.

Images

Product and room-scene renders

A rendering pipeline on a local GPU machine produces listing and lifestyle images for thousands of products.

Agents

Scheduled AI workers

Claude runs recurring jobs such as a daily operating brief, inbox triage and a job-market sweep, writing results back into the app for a person to review.

How I work with Claude

  1. I bring the business problem and the judgment

    I know what a purchase order, a chargeback or a retailer compliance rule costs when it goes wrong. I describe the outcome and the constraints in plain language.

  2. Claude Code builds, tests and ships it with me

    Database migrations, server functions, interfaces and integrations, reviewed and deployed in the same session, often the same day. The app itself started on Lovable and still deploys through it.

  3. People stay in the loop on anything that matters

    Anything that sends, buys or submits waits for a person's approval. The AI does the work up to that point; a human makes the call.

  4. The system remembers what it learns

    Project rules, past mistakes and preferences are written down and loaded into every session, so the same error doesn't happen twice.

Results it has produced

Before this, the operator side

Why I'm reaching out to Anthropic

I'm the customer Claude was built for: someone with deep domain knowledge and no engineering team, who used Claude to build real software that a real business depends on. I'd like to help other operators and enterprise teams get there faster.

[email protected] · 440-552-4023