Omar Zenhom (3:47)
So we built a plan for each day. This is where we ended up. So in day one, we're setting up and creating the foundations of the app. That means we're setting up the project with Leap, which is the software I used, and making sure that we integrate with OpenAI's APIs. Day two, this is all about user flows. We want to know what the user is going to experience when they're using the app. Day three, we're going to work on the AI sales page generator. Day four, we're building the AI pricing engine. One of the features in the app is that you can upload your product and then the AI in the product is going to tell you how you should price your product. Day five, UI and polish. Day six, we're going to test payments and we're going to make sure that we can onboard our customers. Day seven, the glorious day where we ship our product and demo it to make sure it all works. Sounds good in theory, but this is what actually happened. So day one didn't go as bland. I was blown away by how powerful AI was. This is like my first full day trying to build a product with AI. And what took me three or four hours of work would have taken a developer like a month to build. What I built in three or four hours, I accomplished way more than I was expecting. The only thing I didn't get done was the branding at this point. But I got done pretty much all the bare bones of building an app, like being able to have logins, like authentication, being able to take payments so I can charge customers. I even had some of the basic database schemes built up and being able to create a product. So I had a lot done in just one day. So this is what I learned in day one. I learned that you need to treat AI like a highly skilled developer. And through my experience of building, building and growing webinar Ninja, one of the things I learned is you need to give proper instructions. You need to know what you want so that you can tell the engineer and in this case, AI, what you wanted to build. On day two, I decided to step away from the computer and focus on the user experience. I wanted to make sure that we had a seamless user flow. From the moment the user signs up to, they get a win out of the product, meaning they get what they signed up for. And in my case with Nikki, they. They want to be able to create and sell a product as fast as possible. Even like Netflix, for example, when you sign up and you create an account, the first thing they do is they ask you what kind of movies you like to watch so that they can curate some suggestions so that you can have a great experience. You can do this yourself. You have two options. You can go classic and just use paper and pen, or you can do what I did, I use my iPad and I drew out each flow. So each step I wanted to make sure is clear and mapped out. And then when I was done with each flow, I just screenshot it and I upload it to the AI building app, like Leap, for example, so that the actual AI knows what you're building. It has a blueprint of the build. Let me give you a quick rundown of my tech stack, the tools that I use to build my software. First thing was Leap New. This is like lovable, sort of like a GE version of lovable, so that you can create apps using AI. The next thing is GitHub. GitHub is a code repository. This is a technical term, but basically your code has to live somewhere on the Internet so that the world can access it when you're running your app. The next thing that I use is Stripe, and Stripe is a payment processor. If you can't collect payments, you don't have a business. So you gotta be able to take money from your customer's pocket to your pocket. Another tool I use is called Cursor, and it's like a secondary coding tool that would allow me to fix any bugs that I saw in Leap. I also use OpenAI's API, by the way. OpenAI is the company that creates ChatGPT, and I used basically their software or their code so that I can create my own AI features in my app. So, for example, if I wanted my software to use the power of AI to create copy for a sales page, I don't need to create that AI magic. I can just borrow the magic that OpenAI already created through their API. The next tool is one of my favorite tools of all time. It's called Whisper Flow, and basically it allows me to just talk instead of type. And you can use it on your phone, you can use it on your laptop, you can use on your computer. And it allowed me to quickly prompt the AI without having to type and make typos and all that kind of stuff. It's super simple and super easy to use.
