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The AI helped me build and ship the app that tracks my releases and bookings

He was tired of tracking upcoming releases and bookings in his Notes app. In two hours, using a third of a month's free credits, he built his watchitwhen app with AI and had the AI make the changes needed to deploy it.

How it works

  1. Builds the watchitwhen app with AI in about two hours
  2. Asks the AI to make the changes needed for deployment
  3. The app goes live at watchitwhen.vercel.app

Why it’s worth knowing

A person who was tracking things in a notes app had a working, deployed app of his own in two hours for a third of a month's free credits.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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