On October 16 2026 our main site went down just before a planned product launch. I used Claude to build a stand‑alone landing page and deployed it on Vercel within an hour, allowing the launch to proceed despite the outage.
Registered pre‑launch audience: 626.
Live attendees: 319.
Sales calls generated: 15.
Launch‑day revenue: $8,895.
Decisions: I chose Claude to create the fallback page because our on‑shore developers wouldn’t be online until the last hour, and I proceeded with the launch to keep the registered audience engaged. The page was hosted independently on Vercel to avoid the failing main site.
Open questions include how to redesign the main site to eliminate a single point of failure, improve monitoring for earlier outage detection, and template the Claude‑generated page for future emergencies.