E64: Building an App From One Plain English Sentence

I have my book. So I redid this just recently. Just got finished today. And this is going to answer a lot of questions that you're going to have.

Because we're not going to answer them all right now. I'm just going to kind of give you the basics and show you how to get started today. But you have multiple chapters in here. So it looks like there's oh, wow, 43 chapters.

Tons of different prompts. It looks like there's a chapter 44 as the ultimate prompts library. And so this can be a reference guide for you. So Brian's gift dot Brian spelled with an eye, not a Y.

And there's a book with a lot of different references for you and if you keep that link I'm going to, I'll continue to update the same book. As it comes out, for some reason, some changes I'll let you guys knows. There's another link in here for Claud. I don't know if they had an affiliate link for free credits or anything, and it's just a regular link, but I'm going to show you how to use Claud with all of this as well.

You might have heard a couple of the team members talk about it. It's part of my process that not a lot of people use. There's building the lovable app. So this link right here, you can use the direct to lovable link.

But this one gives you ten extra credits. Not a big deal, but ten extra credits could build an entire website. But you don't have to pay for. And I get an extra hundred credits just for.

So that's cool. This is the app builder playbook. So this one here is going to basically go through my structure. So if you scroll down here this kind of shows how I do it.

So if you're getting stuck or don't know what to do this is the build system of what I use to do it the way that I do it. The tools that you're going to need. Lovable clod. GitHub which is free.

You just need a free account. And, this playbook and a knowledge file, which I'm also going to show you how to do. There's a couple of helpful tools that you may not need. Dribble spelled with freebies, is a site to get design inspiration from.

Don't need to use it, but sometimes I do because it has some of the best designs on the internet. It's like a showcase site and you can tell lovable, hey, go check this out or take a screenshot of something and upload it and it'll build something around the designs that you like. So if you kind of like somebody else's website, you like somebody else's app designs, even if it has nothing to do with the niche, you can pull that inspiration in and use it. Go Full Page is another free app.

You don't need the paid one and go full page. Lets you take a screenshot of an entire website. So if you take a screenshot on your computer, it's only going to get a chunk of like a website, right? And then you find yourself taking multiple screenshots.

This one we'll take a screenshot of the entire website. So it's very long and it'll get inspiration for the whole thing all at once. It is a chrome extension, so you need Google Chrome to use that. Another cool helpful tool.

And this is kind of the just the foundation in this, the setup. So everything I'm covering, if you open this playbook, you can use this prompt here and cut and paste it. And this is the first prompt that you would use and just work your way through it. So that's in the Brian's gifts.

com. That is the playbook. And then there's a little worksheet if you want to use it. You don't have to.

But if you want to use this worksheet here it kind of accompanies the playbook. All right. So what we're going to do is get started. And the first thing that I'm going to do out of the gates is just build something that traditional way and lovable, which is the absolute easiest way.

And we'll just do a simple app that I don't really if you're doing a simple app, you really don't need to use all the tricks and hacks and all that kind of stuff anyway. I can just go in here and simply say exactly what I want, just because I know not everybody is in here as in real estate, but we've been using it as an example or several things. Let's just go with that, because I know a simple app that we can build that uses the Google platform. So like I said, ChatGPT and Google Gemini a suite is integrated into lovable AI.

You don't need an API. You don't need to connect anything. It's just there. And so you can use either one of those with your app, which gives you access to nano banana, nano banana two, which is what's inside of Reven as well.

So I use Nano Banana two inside A to make images is one of the best image creators. So knowing that I have AI and I can build really awesome images, that expands the things that I can do with lovable. I can create headshots. So I could make a website where you upload pictures and create amazing, headshots with it.

I can transform backyards for a landscaping business. I could get a photo of the person's backyard and show them what it could look like if we did different things to it. And the one that we'll do today, just as an example, is a staging app. The only reason I wanted to share this one is one.

I know we can do it very simply. Two we got a lot of real estate people in the room, and three, staging a home cost a few thousand dollars to do. It's expensive. And so one, I'll show you how to solve a pain point.

So if you were in real estate, being able to stage homes without paying hardly anything, you know, a couple pennies is pretty awesome. It saves a lot of money and it helps you sell faster. So filling that gap, though, also opens up an opportunity to solve that problem for many other people. So a lot of the AI staging apps cost $100 for every single photo.

That's a lot, especially when it costs you pennies to create that stuff. You could do it less. You could do it the same. You can do whatever you want, but let me show you how I would go about creating something like that without knowing anything.

Like, I just want to do this as easy as I can get. There's no things to learn. There's nothing to do. You just go in here and talk plain English.

That's what we're going to do right now. I'm not going to do any tricks. I'm going to just assume I was brand new to lovable. I never used it before, and I'm creating my first app.

So I would go in here and I would say, I want to build. An ultra. Luxury. Well, I want the ultra premium.

Looking app. That stages homes. Cities. Homes.

The app would allow the user to upload a photo of a vacant room in the house, and they can pick. A specific design theme for the room and the app. Magically stages the room with a beautiful. Look and furniture.

They can download and use to sell the home in for sale listings. All right. So can everybody handle that? It was literally just the idea.

So I didn't do any anything tricky with that. I just kind of said what I want. And then we could say. Well, we can have a log in, I guess.

So, create. Let's do, it'll ask me. So I'm just going to I'm going to stop there. I'm not going to get into user logins or anything.

Let's just stop there. Couple sentences and they go. Because it's probably just going to ask me anyway. So we hit go.

And that was kind of the hardest part is typing that in and thinking of that idea. The next stuff, it's just going to ask me probably 3 or 4 questions, and then it's going to build an end to end app that we can publish and put on our domain and make it go live right here inside of lovable. So if you haven't touched it, you have no idea how to build an app or anything. That's how simple it can be.

So if you were thinking like you got to do all the studying and try to figure all this stuff out, and it's this huge learning curve, and of course Brian can do it because he does it every day. That's not the case. You can literally get on here and do it that quick. So, what type of rooms should the app support?

All types of rooms, main rooms only. Custom selection. So let's just do main rooms only. You can do anything but for the main rooms only.

How many design themes styles do you want? I'd say 5 to 6 is fine, but you could do way more if you wanted. What visual style would you like for the app itself? Clean.

Minimal. Dark. Luxury. Warm.

Premium. Bold. Modern. Let's say clean.

Minimal. Do you need, user accounts login, or should it work without sign in? Let's do required sign and let's do it. And then hit submit.

All right. So now your staging app is being built. And if all I ever did was that I'm going to have an app that works. Now sometimes when it's done, there might be a bug.

What I mean by a bug like it might not work right away. Like, I try to upload a picture and it doesn't stage or it doesn't generate. Or maybe it forgot to use a lovable cloud. And I got to remind it that it's using a cloud or something happens.

Then we just tell it there's a problem. We just say this doesn't work, and it says, okay, I'll go fix it. I'm dealing with that internet issue. Hopefully this doesn't end up being a problem for us.

Send me start over. Required sign in, submit. All right, so this will just take a second. Hopefully, as long as it stays connected here and this will build it out.

Let's see. Make sure before I look away let's make sure it's doing it. It's generating the plan. That we learned over.

So how do you get this window. You just start. So on the on the main screen. Okay.

I got to approve this really fast. Hold on one second. This is the plan. I'm just going to approve it.

I should have done bold and set a minimal because it'll look a little bit more over the top, which is kind of cool. Okay. It looks like it's going right now. So let's go back to lovable.

You're going to start here on this. Then you're going to hit go. Then it automatically brings you to the screen that I'm on. You have to put your first prompt in in order to start.

And then it's going to start. Now it's enabling cloud. So it does realize that we need that. It's enabling the back end let's say enabling the database.

So all those things that you had to do manual before which is why like it's harder to work with other apps. Google just leveled up. So they do allow Firebase. Now they do host it as well.

So there's a lot of things that it can do. It's still not quite as good at it. It does build stuff. That looks a little better sometimes operates a little better.

It's still a little bit more technical. I think they're going to work through that in the next three weeks. Logan Kilpatrick I think his last name is, He said they're going to be doing a lot more updates. So I would tell you, just so you know, my bet is that Google ends up winning the race eventually.

It just still hasn't happened yet. Google, I know all the different, AI companies out there, including ChatGPT that's just burning money left and right. Google is actually profitable. They have all the data in the world.

So they have the data. They have the money. If you want to know what my bet is on, it's probably Google in the long run to really pull ahead of all these guys. It's almost laughable how long it took them.

So like where we are today, I can't believe it took them that long to get there. They're turning point was literally man banana until the end. Like not a lot of people use them. If you look at the charts, as soon as they came out with that image generator, their users skyrocketed and it continues to grow and grow.

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