The speaker claims that users hitting limits with Claude are using it incorrectly. They assert that by following specific fundamental strategies, they have generated over $30,000 in less than three weeks, in addition to contracts from their main company. This involves building hundreds of apps and processes daily, including large folder structures, scripts, and animations. The speaker highlights their own low Claude usage (consistently below 20%, often around 6-7%) despite near-constant use, attributing this efficiency to structured folder organization, strategic use of data and tools, and knowing when *not* to use them. They mention a community of 13,000 people learning these methods and emphasize that their courses are free, not designed to sell more courses. The core message is a critique of users wasting money on ineffective methods and chasing features, urging them instead to focus on fundamentals to ensure long-term success and avoid falling behind.

Jake Van Clief

If you keep hitting limits in Claude, you're using it wrong. Less than 3 weeks, my work has brought me over $30,000. That doesn't even include the contracts from my main company that we're bringing in.

I am building hundreds of apps and processes every day. I mean huge sections of folders, scripts, animations, everything. This is my usage right now. I'm at 7%, 6%. I use it 24/7 almost. Like most of the day I am using it and I have never gone above 20%.

And that's because I'm following the fundamentals. I'm following structured folders and just putting them together and using data when I need to and tools when I need to and knowing when not to. And I literally have a community with 13,000 people learning these tactics right now.

None of these courses are about selling more courses. I don't make money that way. These are all free. These are literally free courses. You're wasting money building things that won't even make you money in ways that are wasting more money. Stop chasing features and learn the fundamentals. You'll never fall behind if you do.

I have never hit a usage limit and still make over 30 grand a month

If you keep hitting limits in Claude,
you're using it wrong. Less than 3
weeks, my work has brought me over
$30,000. That doesn't even include the
contracts from my main company that
we're bringing in. I am building
hundreds of apps and processes every
day. I mean huge sections of folders,
scripts, animations, everything. This is
my usage right now. I'm at 7%, 6%. I use
it 24/7 almost. Like most of the day I
am using it and I have never gone above
20%. And that's because I'm following
the fundamentals. I'm following
structured folders and just putting them
together and using data when I need to
and tools when I need to and knowing
when not to. And I literally have a
community with 13,000 people learning
these tactics right now. None of these
courses are about selling more courses.
I don't make money that way. These are
all free. These are literally free
courses. You're wasting money building
things that won't even make you money in
ways that are wasting more money. Stop
chasing features and learn the
fundamentals. You'll never fall behind
if you do.

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I have never hit a usage limit and still make over 30 grand a month

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