I Vibe-Coded a Roadmap Tool With Claude in Under a Day

AI coding assistants are excellent at generating and validating text formats — which means you can now build custom visualization tools for your team in less than a day. In this video I show Storymap, a Python tool I vibe-coded with Claude that turns a plain markdown file into an interactive, visual product roadmap.

It’s a small, low-stakes tool: nothing to encrypt, nothing published as an online service, just something you run locally that transforms one file format into another.

What’s covered:

What Storymap does: markdown in, interactive HTML roadmap or clean PDF out
The markdown format: releases, personas, stories, and story attributes (status, persona, deadline, release)
Live demo: overview, map, and detail views, filtered by release
How it was built: defining the format with Claude, then generating the code — done in under a day
Why “low stakes” is exactly the sweet spot for AI-generated tools
The included Claude Code skill, so you can build a story map just by chatting
What’s next: a markdown-based threat model visualizer

You don’t need to integrate MCP or wire up a Jira plugin to get a useful visualization — you need a format your coding assistant understands, and a bit of markdown.

Storymap on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/storymap/