How I Built a Full-Stack Roulette Game with Claude AI and Deployed It to AWS — While Learning Everything Along the Way

I wanted to build a roulette website. I also set out to learn.

I have worked in IT for some time, started with Windows admin, moved to Linux, and then onto some basic DevOps work. I may have gotten to the 4th chapter of every Python book ever written, but never fully committed to programming. I have never really done every aspect of the build process, the “Full Stack.”

I wanted to understand the full picture — how a modern web application actually gets built, containerized, deployed, and maintained in production. Not just the code, but the infrastructure. Docker. Reverse proxies. SSL certificates. DNS. The things that tutorials skip over and production demands.

I also wanted to test a theory: could I use AI — specifically Claude — as a genuine development partner to build something real? Not to generate a throwaway script, but to architect, debug, and ship a production application across multiple servers, frameworks, and deployment environments?

So I built Big Spin Fun, a free online roulette game with European, American, and Triple Zero variants. It runs on Next.js, Django, PostgreSQL, and Nginx, all containerized with Docker Compose and deployed to AWS Lightsail. And I built virtually all of it through a conversation with Claude.