I built an app called Daily Hundreds. I opened Lovable and Replet actually on the same day and left the simplest prompt. It was incredible to me that I could tell these AI tools, I want this. And it spit out a very basic minimum viable product of it.

Welcome back to How I AI. I'm Claraveo, product leader and AI obsessive here on a mission to help you build better with these new tools. Today I have my friend Bryce Ratner Keithley who is decidedly not technical. She's actually spent her entire career in talent and people, but she has somehow beat me to the app store with a vibecoded fitness app.

Yes. So, most of my career has been in talent and recruiting, and I've had the privilege to work with really talented, incredible technical leaders throughout my career. And on one hand, through working with these folks, you come to see how talented they are with what they build. And on the other hand, do you come to see that they're living breathing humans as well? And without being a computer scientist myself, there was this massive gap and full abstraction between who they are and what they could do. And with these new tools that came out, even going back to last fall, I kind of got an inkling of like, well, maybe I can try something too and see what the magic is all about and see what the high is you get from be boopping into a computer and having what you build show up on the screen.

I built an app called Daily Hundreds for consumer number one. The story dates back to the pandemic where I spent 20 hours per day every day in this literal room and wasn't moving and had two young kids at home and I craved exercise and there was this very short-lived 100 push-up a day challenge that I started doing but felt like it was boring and monotonous doing push-ups every day. And I kind of thought, I wish someone could just tell me something different to do every day. I would happily do a hundred of them. And it kind of came back to mind. I've been doing it intermittently throughout of just jumping jacks or squats here and there between meetings. And I was like, that seems like a lightweight thing that I can try. And so I opened lovable and replet actually on the same day and left the simplest prompt of, hey, build me a tool called daily hundred that pushes a different exercise to me to log a 100 reps. And it ended up building something remarkably fast. It's not what you'll see today, but it was incredible to me that I could tell these AI tools, I want this. And it spit out a very basic, minimum viable product of it. I ended up sticking with Replet because I could phone a friend. I have a friend who's a director of engineering there and I figured at a worst case he could unblock me. But that was really how it started. And I built this starting in October and I got it into the app store earlier this month.

I tend to think that a beginner's mindset can be used to your advantage here because I truly don't know what I don't know. A big unlock somewhat from your pod is that there's a plan mode. I would sometimes get myself in trouble by asking Replet, you know, how can we change the progress bar? The progress bar is like, you're adding some reps and now it's in a circle, but it started as a line. And initially, I would say, let's change the progress bar to a circle. And it would just do something bananas. And I would have to quickly like undo that. We don't like that. And coming to see they have a plan function was really helpful and profoundly changed how I would approach things and tend to start really big picture of like, okay, robot, here's what your non-technical friend wants to do. How can we collaborate on our new idea? It has a preview panel that y'all can see right here, which makes it really easy to see if you're on the right track or the wrong track. Sometimes it magically happens on the right track right away. Other times it goes on the wrong track many, many times over. But it's really all in in one and made things very simple to at least work at at a small at a small scale.

I got really good at copying and pasting, but I think I knew how to do that beforehand. I got way better at labeling things so I could find things on my computer. I still don't think I know candidly any more about software than I did when I started to the extent that like when I learned that heaven forbid I had to take my app from my precious replet and move it to somewhere else before it can be an app, I moved it to Railway. I don't actually really know what Railway does and yet it's there now.

The fact that you, a very non-technical person, are buying or acquiring railway as your infrastructure without really knowing what it is kind of amazing from a go to market perspective for these AI tools. And I'm sure saying what you don't know and then trusting the beep boop robot gods also helps you discover and push further than you would if you knew the boundaries of things.

We have anthropomorphic animal demos. Yeah. So, it turns out that micro workouts, like exercise snacks, are really good for you. I did start sharing it with my network, even when it was small and just on Replet. And I would get text messages of like, what's a superman? How do I do a reverse lunge? What's a reverse push-up? And I was like, I've got to like not be the single point of failure here. But then I got kind of stuck in the what person do I make? Is it all of me? I really didn't like that idea. And I thought we all have animals. And so I've created anthropomorphic animal videos. they are all obviously AI generated and I've really kind of gone ham on these.

Creating the animals in Gemini. I came to learn that the starting position for the animals was really key. Gemini wasn't doing the videos, but I was making the animals there. And my husband introduced me to Higsfield. And so there's a ton of models in Higsfield and one of their capabilities is to merge mesh intertwine a still image with a motion video to have what's in the image doing what's in the video. I found that clling is the model that works best for these videos. I make the animal in Gemini. I film myself doing the exercises and then I mash up the anthropomorphic animal with Bryce exercising to create the videos.

Create an anthropomorphic leopard in a gym setting wearing exercise gear. Its hands behind its head. Elbows out to the side. Head resting down on the mat. The head should be to the left. And the feet should be to the right. The knees should be positioned above hips. And the feet forward in a tabletop position. I have to call out that she has a secret power here which is she used to teach bar and so being able to prompt somebody knees over hips shoulder width apart hands behind your head. Who knew that all those skills would work into prompting an AI image genen model to make a leopard doing crutches?

It's really true. As I often tell people, like you never know what lateral moves in your career are going to end up being tools that pay off in dividends later. And I am quite good at physical exercise queuing and now I use it a lot. I'll often ask myself, can I be any more literal in what I'm describing?

You put these two image and video side by side. They're roughly the same shape of character. You're using this Cling 3.0 motion control model and then you're saying the image is what's going to control the scene versus the video is what's going to control the scene because you don't want the videos in your living room. You want the videos in 24-hour fitness animal edition.

I started building this in October and once I realized that I wanted to keep using it every day and to your point not only do people not want this as a web app. You certainly don't want it to be dailyund00.replet.app because nobody's going to go there. it was like okay well the holy grail is getting this to being a published app in the app store.

Beginner's mindset went into claude and was basically how do I prepare a replet app for app store submission and kept it really broad and gave it the context that I am not technical. I can use cloud code, what do we do next? And it gave me, I think it was like five pretty meaty items that we were going to have to go through. And so what I would do is I would use Claude, original Claude as like my friend in the cockpit of like what are we doing? How are we going to approach this? And it would tell me when to go into Claude code. Claude code would write me code. I would bring that back into claude and say this is what you told me to have it do. Here's what it did. it would confirm or give me thoughts on it and then it would tell me to put it into the terminal directly which was a fascinating and at first terrifying experience but that was ultimately what I would do. I'd bought between claude, claude code, claude and terminal and really continue. I took about 25 or 30 hours in one weekend and just cranked through it but ultimately got it into the app store on the second try.

Yes. So, there were three things. I just took it all. I copied it and pasted it from Apple's feedback into Claude and was like, "We did not achieve full publishing. Here's what it said." One was like checking the wrong box on parental child proofing. The second one was I needed to add signin with Apple, which I had done, but I never tested it. And then you need to have a way to delete your account. She truly beat me. I am a competitive vibe coder. This is super impressive. People are unconstrained by execution and they can take a good idea and make it production ready.

I've personally always gravitated towards environments where the best idea wins, right? It's not only certain people have the best ideas, but I think in this day and age, it's table stakes to cross-pollinate and have both like the humility and the curiosity to work with others in ways that you haven't before. I think people that get territorial or constrained by what they used to do are going to struggle with relevance.

If an engineer come in to a technical interview and focus only on finding a working solution fastest, it misses the point because the robots can find a working solution faster than they can. And if they're not recognizing, hey, in this equation, the human role has shifted. I need to step back and consider my role as well as the full suite of tools and understand that my role as a technical expert is broader and different than it was 6 months ago.

If you haven't read What Got You Here Won't Get You There or How Women Rise, it's a good reminder. definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results. I did listen to a whole new mind by Dan Pink. Especially as computers can do more leftrain thinking, there's an opportunity and a lot of inspiration for seizing and maximizing humanity with right brain thinking.

Dale Carnegie enthusiast. I do try and be more measured and decent and prepare myself for continued robot evolution. So I try to be decent and firm when needed and also keep my position of power polit. Hyper literal and the screenshot is your friend. Reset. refresh or rewrite if I need to and then try something new.