Masha Bozhevolnova

Building real apps with AI | Built school cafe system: simplified sales recording for staff, revenue insights for owners + parents view kids' purchases

[Masha Bozhevolnova @miamibe]

Whew! Spent the day building CafeFlow with @lovable - turned out awesome! CafeFlow helps small cafe owners manage all their operations in one place. Started this after one cafe owner asked for help, but I hope to scale it to many more! https://t.co/yLz4KLK3s6

[Masha Bozhevolnova @miamibe]

@atticus_flinch кажется, это кимчи, а не sauerkraut)

спасибо вам за подкаст, простите, что смешались кони люди (то есть еда и подкасты), жду следующий выпуск!

[Masha Bozhevolnova @miamibe]

@ramsri_goutham Thank you! will keep experimenting)

[Masha Bozhevolnova @miamibe]

@karpathy @ai_bites Very cool! Just yesterday, I thought I wanted to build something similar to read Fikhtengolz's classical textbook. The 3rd part nearly broke me at Uni)

as of vide coding, I've built an app for a school cafe using AI and it works in prod for 5 months now, still cant believe it

[Masha Bozhevolnova @miamibe]

@ulricmusset what did it do?)

[Masha Bozhevolnova @miamibe]

"13. most saas companies are just fancy forms with a database. that's why they're so easy to copy."

love this, confirmed personally while building a custom accounting system for a school cafe that's already used by 70 families and cafe personnel!

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

I'M FEELING SPICY TODAY. letting it all out:

1. wild that we normalized influencers posting tons of videos/photos of their babies/kids. zero consent, lifetime consequences. what do we think of this?

2. customer support has gotten out of hand. had an issue with a billion dollar fintech company and impossible to have a phone call with someone who spoke English. Honestly, AI would be better but also worse. the state of customer service has never been worse than today (btw opportunity for companies who care)

3. product tours are admission your ui is broken. great products don't need instructions.

4. IG isn't a social app anymore. it's a mall with a newsfeed. massive opportunity for actual friend products.

5. watching founders build complex features while their customers just want faster support emails and more expensive pricing plans with more value.

6. saas companies can't raise prices anymore. ai made everything copyable. Realistically saas prices are about to come down. Real down.

7. venture capital became funding of last resort or you’re building the next spaceX. nothing in between

8. "flat rounds" are down rounds wearing makeup.

9. the next stripe isn't coming from stanford. it's coming from an indie hacker who's really pissed off about fees and locked out of their stripe account.

10. developer tools are the new consulting businesses. high margins, low maintenance.

11. course creators pivoting to agencies. agencies pivoting to courses. everyone ends up where they started.

12. y combinator is a content company that occasionally funds startups.

13. most saas companies are just fancy forms with a database. that's why they're so easy to copy.

14. Business networking is mostly a waste of time. Way more efficient to build an audience, find out who you find interesting, reach out to them, set 1:1s.

15. People just say whatever they want on this app. Be careful what you read. The MRR def not audited. “Millions of downloads to your podcast”. Not audited.

16. tons of newsletter subscriber numbers from top creators aren't real. "200k subscribers", yeah not really. its mostly paid from low quality sources, and people reading the newsletter are only opening it to remember how they got on this list.

sometimes the truth hurts but i felt like saying it.

[Masha Bozhevolnova @miamibe]

@ulricmusset an app that's now actively used by a school cafeteria team and 70 families to track their children's cafeteria spending. It's amazing to see how accessible app development has become, allowing people like me to turn practical solutions into reality!

[Masha Bozhevolnova @miamibe]

@ulricmusset Thank you so much for featuring my project! I wanted to share that as someone with high-level technical understanding but not deep coding expertise, Marblism enabled me to build something truly impactful -

[Masha Bozhevolnova @miamibe]

@atticus_flinch я вот этим перенесла https://t.co/OXQwlGDKQU

[Masha Bozhevolnova @miamibe]

- describing the whole process from customer problem identification and interviews to working with Marblism, the resulting app, and key lessons learned.

Love these new times! 🚀

[Masha Bozhevolnova @miamibe]

As promised, published an article on how I created a fully functional app with @marblismAI without writing a single line of code https://t.co/0H8i5CCY0A

Russian version for now -

[Masha Bozhevolnova @miamibe]

@ulricmusset

[Masha Bozhevolnova @miamibe]

Being able to ask AI to implement a new feature and just seeing it being implemented and working feels absolutely magical.
(and I will publish an article about the system and how I built it next week)

[Masha Bozhevolnova @miamibe]

I hate to say it. Actually I love programmers. I have enormous respect for people who can design and engineer complex systems.
At the same time, I have built a fully functional system which is live now with @marblismAI, and it was an absolute joy.

[swlkr @swlkr]

hate to break it to you

but everyone is super excited to replace programmers with llms

[Masha Bozhevolnova @miamibe]

Funny thing - after checking my grammar, the LLM added its own question at the end of the answer.

(I'll keep my follow-up question the same - have you noticed any specific patterns in how LLMs improve your writing?)

[Masha Bozhevolnova @miamibe]

Sometimes LLMs really scare me. I am afraid that if I rely on them too much, I won't be able to write without their help, and I really need to improve my own skills.
On the other hand

[Masha Bozhevolnova @miamibe]

P.S. Grammar checked by an LLM, but the post itself is not rewritten)

[Masha Bozhevolnova @miamibe]

@ian_matveev https://t.co/DmVZkuik6S