Your customers should be building your product for you
and, here's a free time-tracking app template!
What happens to product roadmaps when the marginal cost of writing a line of code goes to zero?
It’s an exciting thought. We’ve stumbled upon an age where a simple addition to an app that could have taken weeks takes mere seconds. What took hundreds of expensive developer hours can now take mere minutes of a non-technical conversation back and forth. So what if we shifted those minutes to the customer?
Should we give customers control over their experience? No-code tools such as Monday.com, Bubble.io, and others attempt to have this sort of end-user flexibility with apparent success, but another obvious factor is the limitations of no-code.
To be clear, I was pro no-code, until I realized you can code with no code like a pro using code (gen).
So, let’s take an example of what the future could look like. Today’s project is less of an automation project and more about building an app in 2024. I’ll show you how I share my projects with PrompterGPT and how you can build and customize anything (and I’ll give out a free template for a time-tracking app you can build, customize, and deploy now!).
Step 1: Using PrompterGPT, get today’s time-tracking app project
I upload each of my automation projects to a custom GPT so you can easily build, deploy, customize, and troubleshoot.
Step 2: Follow the instructions and copy the provided code to a new working directory.
Step 3: Assess the current app’s capabilities
Follow PrompterGPT’s instructions to test the app locally and see what you like/dislike about it (my feelings won’t be hurt, don’t worry!)
Step 4: Customize and implement with PrompterGPT
I’ll be adding a scheduled email send feature to send information to my leadership group
There we go—simple as that. I’m not sure about you, but this really feels like the future of internal tooling SaaS. I get a basic template and the flexibility to change what I need. The customer has the power of creation, while the provider sets up the architectures and frameworks.
Next week, I’ll be back with another automation project, so stay tuned!
Happy building, and see you next time.
— Nishad from Prompter
P.S. This project doesn’t interest you? Check out last week’s project on how to build a media monitor to capitalize on breaking news about your company.
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