So after 35 days of frustration and wanting to quit, I finally have a working website: https://t.co/avM1ANa5vG
What have I learnt by doing?
1. How to fix any single retarded problem that AI can create
2. How to avoid AI pitfalls
3. Knowledge of new useful techstacks
#NoCode
Here's what I learnt about API:
8. If you've no experience with API, just get it AI to guide you. It took me 7 days to fix, break, fix, then break, then finally fix my API to be working as intended.
Here's what I learnt about design:
7. Tailwind, react, shadcn, are the go to for UI, if you have no clue and want AI to build your UI with it, you're going to get tons of screw ups, like wrong versions, integration. Just build it first, then get AI to tell you what went wrong.
Here's what I learnt about hosting
6. Even if you've screwed up every single possible area for hosting by getting AI to hardcode your localhost, fixing it to a server is easy as long as you provide AI with some documentation of the server you want to build. Took me 4 days to fix
Here's what I learnt about tech stack:
5. You can get AI to propose and implement it for you. But for a beginner, you'll need to AT LEAST read or watch videos about what those techstack do. Even if you don't know how to code, at least, you'll be proficient with the functions
3. I finally managed to get my website loaded after 3.5 days, it was a frankenstein with bugs, it was unusable.
4. Seeing how the best way of learning was by doing, rather than trying to reprompt my project, I decided a trial by fire to fix would really test my understanding
1. One-shot prompting for AI is good for demonstrating, but it's definitely not possible to have a shipped product.
2. With no experience, I jumped onto Cursor, using Sonnet and Gemini, then Augment Code, then Claude Code. What I did not know is each AI codes differently.
I always wanted to build myself a web app but I didn't have the experience. Watched YT vids with people creating 1 project in 7 days using AI.
With no experience I decided to try it out on my own and it took me: 35 days.
Here's what I've learnt as a beginner.
#NoCode
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@PhilakoneCrypto Rofl. Well, sometimes things don't go the way we hope, but we all take it in our stride to move on. By posting you're wasting your time and additional emotions. Just my two cents.
@PhilakoneCrypto Haven't met anyone else who has done what you have done for the community, keep it up boss. You've helped many to get started in the game.