In this post, I wanted to do something a little different – a bit of fun mixed with a warning…
Over the last two years I have been building software with AI. I have been doing this pretty much since the day ChatGPT launched. It’s been a wild ride of ups and downs. Sometimes it was great and sometimes it caused issues that took weeks to resolve but, I could see the potential from the start. Literally, within a couple of days of using ChatGPT I was telling friends and family about how it blew my mind and how important it is that they try it out. While LLMs have become more and more popular – I think most people have not been able to see past getting it to tidy up an email or help with an essay. In this post, I want to show why I think it’s far more powerful than most people understand currently in March 2024.
In the video below, I am going to show how in less than an hour, I create an app from an empty folder on my computer without writing a line of code myself. I am obviously a developer who’s been coding since my early teens but, I have already taught 3 or 4 people to do this who have never written a single line of code.
I want to stress this point – you don’t need years of development experience any more.
I taught one friend how to do this process who owns a staffing agency. He wanted to build an internal tool for managing onboarding new team members. He had the first version of the app up and running with days. His team are now saving time with a more robust process that he has full visibility on. This is a significant improvement in operations and it increases the value of the business because there is high value IP which can now be sold with it. He could also consider making it available for others to use with a monthly subscription.
Speaking of startups, another guy I taught how to build iOS apps is now is about to beta launch his app and is using it to raise $1m in investment. Having the ability to build the app having never written a line of code and built anything like this before allows him to refine the idea and get people to play with the ideas and features so potential users and investors can understand his vision for the business. It also lowers his costs dramatically.
So I have seen first hand how people can create apps with no experience that add significant value to their businesses at little to no cost. You don’t have to take my word for it, I will show you what it’s like step by step with this video…
There is a bit of background knowledge needed to get this up and running but, simple to learn with some guidance. But you can see it’s possible. While this is exciting to see what people are going to build – I had a conversation with a friend in the last few days where we realised that it might be hard to sell your software to people who can make their own version in a matter of hours…
I am keen to see how far people can push this new paradigm so I am thinking of doing workshops or a course or… something. I haven’t quite decided yet. Keep an eye out for it.
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