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Outsmarting AI πŸ€–πŸ§  The hack for generating fully-functional web apps

vincanger on August 22, 2023

TL;DR I’m an indiehacker that likes creating lots of fun side-projects, like my SaaS app CoverLetterGPT with ~4,000 users. That’s why I'...
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Adam Crockett πŸŒ€

Welp there goes my job again

But seriously well done, just needs a Deploy to button for netlify and vercel and config for code style preferences and languages

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vincanger • Edited

Thanks, Adam.

Once you download the codebase and install Wasp, after making any changes you can build & deploy directly to Fly.io with just one command: wasp deploy fly launch --> wasp-lang.dev/docs/advanced/deploy...

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Adam Crockett πŸŒ€

Alrighty that’s got me interested, the only thing now is traction that’s what might hold me back… but you can’t get traction without people so I promise to try it on my next project ❀️

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Matija Sosic

woohoo! btw, it was used to create almost 10,000 apps so far :). Can't wait to hear how you find it!

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Martin Šoőić

So I haven't heard of PRD before but it is very cool that you managed to use with Wasp App Generator! So it gives better results than just a couple simple sentences? I always though so much information will be too much for GPT possibly, but sounds from this like a well written PRD does improve the result?

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Martin Šoőić

I wonder if it might even make sense to have Wasp App Generator generate a PRD itself as a part of app creation?

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vincanger

i think because the generator creates the plan with GPT-4, it handles a larger description pretty well

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yangxiv

Thanks for the love

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Freddy Hidalgo-Monchez

Very cool stuff! This is a great example of an entrepreneurial scope since it speeds up the prototype stage so we can get quicker feedback from its actual use.

How much time would you estimate this process saved you vs creating the app on your own?

Thanks again for the tip. Bookmarked this post :)

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vincanger

Thanks, Freddy!

Oh, man. In some cases (especially if implementing your own auth) it could save you days of work.

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Freddy Hidalgo-Monchez

That's my feeling too. I might write a post detailing a bit those gains once I get around to it...

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vincanger

would be awesome if you do. please post the link here!

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Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini

Thanks for writing this! I must +1 on the amazing use of gifs πŸŽ‰

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vincanger

You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it :)

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zvone187

Yes!! Finally an app generator that utilizes PRD! Great job

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DevDynamics

Thank you for sharing this, especially the part, using GPT to write the PRD

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vincanger

Yeah. This is a game changer!

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Nevo David

I love it!
Thank you for sharing!

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vincanger

Thanks, Nevo πŸ™

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Mitchell Mutandah

Nice read!
Thanks for sharing.

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vincanger

πŸ™

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Amar Gupta

grt

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vincanger

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Matija Sosic

I'm always amazed with how well GPT can work for generating new web apps when combined with @wasplang :). Btw the images in the post are also next level!

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vincanger

Canva FTW!

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Mihovil Ilakovac

Super cool stuff Vinny, love the visuals

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vincanger

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