Listen: How I built LennyRPG
Listen: How I built LennyRPG  
Podcast: Lenny's Reads
Published On: Wed Mar 18 2026
Description: When Lenny released his full podcast transcript archive, Ben Shih a non-technical designer at Miro — built LennyRPG: a Pokémon-style RPG where you battle podcast guests with product trivia. In this episode, Ben walks through the exact six-step workflow he used to go from sketch to shipped game, including the tools, prompts, and decisions at every stage, along with the broader lessons he learned along the way.---In this episode, you'll learn:• How to have AI interview you instead of writing the PRD yourself• When to pivot your framework, rather than force the wrong tool• How to systematically process 300+ transcripts into game data• Three core lessons Ben learned from building LennyRPG---ReferencesBen Shih: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hbshih/Brian Balfour: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bbalfour/Claude Code Awesome Skills marketplace: https://github.com/ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skillsLennysData.com: https://lennysdata.com/LennyRPG: https://www.lennyrpg.fun/Lenny's Product Pass: https://www.lennysproductpass.com/OpenGameArt.org: https://opengameart.org/Phaser 3: https://phaser.io/RPG-JS: https://github.com/RSamaium/RPG-JSSupabase: https://supabase.com/Wispr Flow: https://wisprflow.com/---Read the newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-i-built-lennyrpg---Subscribe to Lenny's Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/subscribe---SubscribeYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lennysreadsApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lennys-reads/id1810314693Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0IIunA06qMtrcQLfypToojSubstack: https://lennysreads.com/---Follow LennyTwitter: https://twitter.com/lennysanLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@lennyspodcast---AboutWelcome to Lenny's Reads, where every week you'll find a fresh audio version of my newsletter about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career, read to you by the soothing voice of Lennybot. To hear more, visit www.lennysnewsletter.com