Using AI to build stuff

I really liked this listicle by Sasha Chapin:

I was gonna do my usual thing of sharing which items from the 50 resonate most for me.

I’ll give you one.

11. I know that talent doesn’t feel like you’re amazing. It feels like the difficulties that trouble others are mysteriously absent in your case. Don’t ask yourself where your true gifts lie. Ask what other people seem weirdly bad at.

But what I want to know is which of these land for YOU.

This was an excuse to do a project.

Here it is…go vote:

https://sasha.moontowermeta.com/

I have been doing a lot more vibe-coding recently. This project was an excuse to make something that required a database backend to record the likes and user sessions.

I used AI to then document the process which you can read about here:

General environment and stack:

👨🏽‍💻Setting up Git + Vercel + Terragon

Specific for the sasha voting page:

☕1-page guide

🔍Detailed tutorial

You can find a new portal here and in my signature down below:

🤖Resources to Get More Out of AI

Related and timely — this week Khe documented making a CRM which is the next-level up because it uses authentication (ie username/password to login):

I coded an entire CRM from scratch

If there are any resources you love as you explore, feel free to share!

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