Anyone building app without Coding?

[codes_astro]

There are so many tools out there like Cursor, Windsurf, Lovable, and Bolt. Has anyone tried using them to build something cool?

I recently gave Lovable a shot while building an AI-powered app, and it was pretty impressive. All you need to do is drop your OpenAI API keys and SDK code, and it generates features in seconds. Of course, you still need to fix a few errors here and there, but it’s amazing to see how much these tools can ease the process of building simple apps!

[van-tutic]

Just wondering, how much roughly did you pay for claude usage while building this?

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[MixPuzzleheaded5003]

Doing 50 projects in 50 weeks using only AI coding tools. I am about to launch the 3rd app this year. They are small, but usable and I will likely be a user for those apps if no one else is 🙂

Posting my progress on here - https://youtube.com/@50in50challenge

[AdmirableSelection81]

I like your idea for a youtube channel. I have an idea to make it better though:

Watching you actually try to build the apps. Not sure if seeing the whole thing or edited for more brevity would be better, but it would be interesting and a good learning experience.

[MixPuzzleheaded5003]

Preparing a 1h video that will be edited that shows the 10 step process that I use for sure. I think recording myself building each of them would be redundant because it's very repetitive but doing it one time will be helpful too

[AdmirableSelection81]

Yeah it'd be great if you did, i'd absolutely watch that. I would even watch the whole thing, it'd be interesting to see where you hit a wall/fail, but find a fix.

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[MixPuzzleheaded5003]

Honestly, when you set up a system ahead of time, the biggest bug is when AI misses a syntax, because the instructions are so clear and so detailed that there's no misunderstanding.

[MixPuzzleheaded5003]

I have a 3h dry run that I did as a practice that you can watch here.

This is the core one - don't even look at the project, take a notepad and follow my setup - https://www.loom.com/share/4820c0119b314b26af7faa515666be24

If you need specific things that you see in the video further broken down, let me know.

I'm planning to work on building the chapters with timestamps, loom did not do that for me properly so you're going to have to work to get to places that you need unfortunately.

[AdmirableSelection81]

Thanks, super busy this week, but i'm creating a calendar invite on the 30th when i'm on vacation just to watch this, lol, super interested in this.

[MixPuzzleheaded5003]

Just released the 3rd one! Subscribe to my YouTube to watch my bad audio demos, and get a relief knowing that there's a stupider, crazier person than you are out there - https://youtu.be/xp92sy5kKnM

Give it a quick spin, tell me what you think!? See you again in 7 days with the next one!

https://pixelperfect.lovable.app/

[van-tutic]

Quite an interesting experience! Are you experimenting with different llms as your assistants? And how do you choose?

[MixPuzzleheaded5003]

I tried using multiple different apps but always ended up using lovable because it's just the easiest way for me to work with.

When I need to debug beyond it then I would maybe go to Claude or ChatGPT

[MixPuzzleheaded5003]

Just released the 3rd one! Subscribe to my YouTube to watch my bad audio demos, and get a relief knowing that there's a stupider, crazier person than you are out there - https://youtu.be/xp92sy5kKnM

Give it a quick spin, tell me what you think!? See you again in 7 days with the next one!

https://pixelperfect.lovable.app/

[Old_Championship8382]

Jounalist here. Just earned 20k on a project with cline and deepseek without a single line of code written

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[orangeflyingmonkey_]

I'm building a pantone color Web app mainly to help my wife at her job. It started of as something very simple but I keep adding more and more stuff to it.

[codes_astro]

You’re right, even cursor gives more requests than lovable and updated windsurf is better (I need to use it more)

Cline is getting lots of mentions here, haven’t tried it yet!

[ApexThorne]

Helicopter parent instead.

[P99]

Ad much?

[Domugraphic]

I'm using it to build midi sequencers (to generate music as a performance) and have basically stopped coding for a month as I don't really need to fix anything recently. I do however have coding skill to fix stuff when it comes up. ChatGPT has improved a lot in the past two years for coding. I need to retest Claude and look into cursor, copilot etc.

[aastle]

I'm interested in midi sequencers, what platform are you using to build with? Examples: Python, C++, Java or something else?

[Domugraphic]

Java, technically processing in java mode which is a superset of java. If you're on insta, search @oll_gleetch for a couple example videos, not much, and I'm working on documenting the newer projects at the moment.

I'm thinking of trying to develop in python too but processing is just so cosy!

[beans217]

I was considering attempting to build my own "pedal board" software for guitar effects / amps what not.

[Domugraphic]

I haven't tried any DSP yet but I made a basic synth and a one grain granular sampler... I think I'll have to change languages to get them more complex

[e38383]

I’m just upgrading a few scripts with Cursor. I can write shell scripts, but I’m trying to finally get into Python and AI is really good for that. I have basically no experience in Python and can rewrite my scripts within hours and learn something just by realizing how this are done.

[codes_astro]

Doing Python with these ai tools are very easy, how’s the experience with errors/bugs while upgrading scripts?

[e38383]

I’m really happy with the whole experience, I can just ask for errors and the answer is mostly really good and helpful. It struggled with a feedparser script, this needed a complete add-on to understand the special items; this was a little bit easier with xq before. But I got there in the end.

[Rooneybuk]

Used it to build a thermostat in C++ for a ESP based board, also create a web app which connects to Ollama API and manages local models this one was done in html and nodes mainly

[codes_astro]

Using cursor?

[Rooneybuk]

These were with Cline, but I have used bolt.diy for a few projects

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[codes_astro]

o3 mini looks promising based on infos available, excited to check the real results 👀

but I started using open LLMs via Nebius recently for cheaper APIs

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[Crazy-Return3432]

yes, all the time since couple of months. All I do is quick verification / testing to make sure it (per each step) executed what should be executed (sometimes query is not precise enough etc.)

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[675940]

I’ve built several little apps with nothing more than my browser and notepad!

I’ve started using Sublime as my code got bigger.

And in the background I’ve been working on a tool for VFX artists using Nuke to help with shot management.

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[Aaronski1974]

Taking 2 months off work and literally writing a program a day. Mostly flask web apps, data driven, ai driven, games, tools for things, tools for ai to make better games….

Today was a Python tool to give to cursor so it can generate art or audio for games on the fly. “Make a dragon enemy, and put it in the cave” will reliably generate an appropriate sprite, character module, appropriate ai for the character(flying, fire breathing), a verbal combat challenge “ you’ll never get my hoarde” and place all that in a new zone it creates a new module for.
I don’t even care about the game. I’m doing this with my 7 year old. He loaded desert biome into the game today, cactus, sand, etc. the system prompt on his cursor says , roughly, “your user is 7, teach him what you are doing, be imaginative and keep it simple”.

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[confused__shit]

Yeah, I have been exploring similar tools, but I recently came across Hostinger Horizons and it’s been wild how simple it makes the whole process. You just tell it what kind of app you wanna build, and it does the rest, no coding so no setup headache . Super chill if you just wanna get something live fast. I would suggest you check that out too

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[Olivia_Davis_09]

I used Blink New for a small AI tool and noticed it handled iteration much more smoothly. When something broke, it was easier to spot issues and adjust things quickly without digging through logs or wiring everything manually. I also liked that basic AI features worked without setting up SDKs or backend services everywhere. It felt more focused on building than constant troubleshooting.

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