Vedanth

👨🏼‍💻 Learning AI and making hobby apps. Follow to try out my experiments.

[Vedanth @vedanthk_]

Hey fellow builders 👋🏼
I'm building a real simple quotes app called Roundtail Straight.

I'm learning to build apps using AI and posting here as I go along.

What are you building right now? Let's connect.

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[Vedanth @vedanthk_]

“You have to take small steps, make thousands of tiny decisions, throw away good-enough work to get to your best work, and protect the thing that made the idea worth building in the first place.”

Great post

[Jip @jipvandervelde]

grug is probably the first Apple Design Award winner built by two designers using Codex to write the code.

We didn't prompt "build me an award-winning app, make no mistakes.” It did not wake up one morning and decide the world needed grug. We did. We wanted to build it and AI was the tool that helped us take it all the way there.

Ever since we started building with AI a few years ago, we got bolder. You stop killing ideas just because they sound too hard to build. You get weirder when trying things becomes cheap enough to be silly again. You start following the strange little thought further than you normally would.

That is how grug happened.

AI can write your code. It can help you move fast. It can make impossible things feel possible.

But it cannot care. It cannot make your app memorable. It cannot make your app feel like it has a soul.

You have to bring the taste. You have to stay incredibly close. You have to take small steps, make thousands of tiny decisions, throw away good-enough work to get to your best work, and protect the thing that made the idea worth building in the first place.

grug would not have been this memorable if we didn't have Codex to go all-in on all the crazy ideas we had. If we had not decided to make the whole thing hand-drawn. If we had not spent days and nights obsessing over every detail, every animation, every interaction, every tiny bit of weirdness.

That is the difference between slop and something with a soul.

And I think that is why this award means so much to us. Not because what we were able to do using AI to build grug, but because Apple recognized the care we put inside all the weirdness.

For the past 15 years, so many of our ideas stopped at the mockup. They were too weird, too small, too hard to explain, too expensive to build, too unlikely to survive a meeting. Now designers like us can build the fun little things. Designers like us can ship the crazy ideas. Designers like us can make unreasonable little things and see if the world cares.

There are plenty of people who do not get grug. That is totally fine.

We do not try to build for everyone, because when you do you end up building for no-one. The people who get grug really get it. And if it makes their morning feel a little lighter, that is all that matters to us.

Make the weird thing. The right people will find it.

grug no wait for permission.

grug back sun rise.

[Vedanth @vedanthk_]

Grug is one of the most memorable apps I’ve ever used. I don’t know why exactly it sticks with me. I can list down reasons as a designer - but it’s sum is more than its parts. It’s the soul you have mentioned.

I’m so glad Grug won the award.

It feels like a beloved character, my friend Grug, won. Hats off to your efforts.

[Vedanth @vedanthk_]

Wife tried making a bowl today. She sneaked in some grapes with the beans and it was DELICIOUS.

What was your last meal?

#food #buildinpublic but #EatInPrivate

[Vedanth @vedanthk_]

@_annakulina It’s great to work out of different places sometimes. Vlog about power outage experience will be fun haha

[Vedanth @vedanthk_]

@CarlosBBuild It’s such a mental shift to get comfortable in front of the camera. Good going dude 💯

[Vedanth @vedanthk_]

@BratDotAI hahaha its great dude cringe = freedom
but damn 1k verified, that'll be a milestone 🚀🔥

[Vedanth @vedanthk_]

@bas_fijneman hell yeah lets go!
and so cool my post made it to the homepage haha 😁

[Vedanth @vedanthk_]

@buildwithmaya thats amazing. all the best.

[Vedanth @vedanthk_]

@JamesJames518 such a simple idea. its things like this that will add value on top of existing solutions.

[Vedanth @vedanthk_]

@ademolaignat @Eysiricodes so true 🥲

[Vedanth @vedanthk_]

@i_mika_el maybe quirkiness and imperfect will start to have a real edge? if it seems too perfect, then maybe ai

[Vedanth @vedanthk_]

@mert_0_0_ Hey Mert, indie app builder here. Figuring out how to build ios apps with AI. Working on my first app right now. Let's connect.

[Vedanth @vedanthk_]

@BratDotAI @RamTeluguTrader Chrome accents on black is the jam! Looks sick 👌🏼

[Vedanth @vedanthk_]

@Suyash1277768 This is New Jersey 😄

[Vedanth @vedanthk_]

Good morning fellow builders, hustlers and learners 🌇

Another bright day to be creative and learn new things.

Let’s go.

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[Vedanth @vedanthk_]

@BratDotAI Love this. Delight is one of the most important things in consumer apps. I love it when apps also have a bit of a whimsical side. It’s underrated.

[Vedanth @vedanthk_]

@amishux Dude you’re at 599. Let me get you to 600 back up. 🚀

[Vedanth @vedanthk_]

@sebacaldarola That’s awesome Sebas! Wish it keeps going up. All the best buddy 🚀

[Vedanth @vedanthk_]

5 days left to make my app launch ready.

Still stuck on onboarding.

Some apps have 10 MINUTES OF ONBOARDING

Some have just 1 screen.

Apparently both show huge success.

This only means 1 thing : THESE ARE NO UNIVERSAL RULES.

So I think I have something that I feel offers the most value for my app.

🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

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