Built An App in 4.5 Hours With No Coding Knowledge
💬 Riley Brown tweets…
OMG!!!!! 6 Days Ago I had never written a line of code in my life.
But I just deployed my first note taking web app with a back end that stores the data, using Claude, Replit, and Google Firebase.
Just brute forced asked Claude AI questions alternating between 2 accounts to get around the limits, AND STILL running out of credits on both accounts.
Just about 4.5 hours later I had a custom Notes app in the style that I wanted.
I obviously don't have any programming "hard skills", but my understanding of what is possible with code has increased 1,000,000%
(Claude is a Google-backed ChatGPT alternative.)
Riley's tweet went viral and he followed it up with a 14-min video tutorial showing how he built the app 💪
He basically gives Claude a couple of screenshots and a drawing, then it’s just back and forth to explain how the app should function.
Riley admits in his initial video 👇
Obviously, if I was releasing a tool, I would want to get a developer to come in.
But the fact that I could [do it] in 4 hours; a lot of people spend four hours just coming up with ideas and drawing it out on a whiteboard when you could spend four hours just making a full on mockup.
And I could send this to friends that I trust and they could go in… then come up with things that they would want to change so that by the time you go to a developer, you already know all of the features that you want to add.
And then they can basically refine the code at the end.
I like this approach: come up with an idea, then use ChatGPT or Claude as a brainstorming and technical partner to build a prototype.
You can then get real world feedback on the prototype, to determine if you're onto something and should invest in building out a full product 🤔
If you have an idea for an app, how about giving this a try in the coming week?
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He Replaced His Friend’s Mum With AI in 80 Minutes
💬 Tom Osman tweets…
I spent 1h 20m replacing my friends mum with AI.
He elaborates…
A family friend of ours has a successful business running Tours in London.
It's a good business but the problem is that his mum who runs the show is tied to her desk, answering calls then manually entering the bookings into her booking software.
🤖 That’s when…
I built a voice assistant in SynthflowAI to take the calls instead so she never has to do it manually ever again.
The assistant knows everything about her business and will be able to make the bookings over the phone with zero human input.
On the off chance there's something it can't answer, the call gets routed to her mobile.
Synthflow AI is impressive, lets you build "human-like conversational AI voice assistants" … check out the video demo on their homepage 👈
Along the same lines, there's this tweet from Max Brodeur-Urbas…
A YC batch-mate was quoted $16k from a consultant for a custom AI invoice processor
Their intern built it in 2 hours on Gumloop.
GPT-4o now:
– Analyzes any receipt sent to their Gmail
– Extracts vendor + amount
– Categorizes it
– Adds it to their Notion DB
– Texts their finance admin
Gumloop is a drag-and-drop automations builder, powered by AI.
I reckon one of the best online business opportunities right now is to become an AI Automation Consultant 😎
You'd basically practice using tools like ChatGPT, Synthflow and Gumloop until you have basic competence, then get out there and find clients, help them increase efficiency and cut down on costs.
As you work with those clients you'd likely stumble across recurring issues that could lead you to create a productized service or SaaS solution (ie. a much more scalable business) 📈
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