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A non-technical product manager shipped a restaurant recommendation app, and the AI wrote every line of it

He is a software product manager who cannot code. His app GoodFinds turns restaurant recommendations from people you trust, chefs, publications, influencers and friends, into a live map, and it is out on the App Store. The AI wrote all the code. He also had it build the data pipeline behind the app, which pulls venues out of influencer posts and chef interviews and matches them against Google Places, and a monitor that watches food subreddits and pings him on Telegram when a thread is worth replying to.

How it works

  1. Direct the AI to build the app, with AI writing all the code
  2. Build a sourcing pipeline that extracts venues from influencer posts and chef interviews and resolves them against Google Places
  3. Add a monitor that watches food subreddits and sends him a Telegram ping when a thread is worth joining
  4. Ship to the App Store

Why it’s worth knowing

The person who shipped it cannot code at all. The less visible half of the build is the pipeline: the app stays current by reading what chefs and influencers post, not by manual data entry.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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