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This solo founder built 14+ apps with AI—here’s his full workflow

TL;DR: In this breakdown, Dohyun Kim shares how he builds production-ready web apps faster than ever using an AI-powered workflow with tools like Cursor, Magic Patterns, and Supabase.

🧠 Design-first: Instead of jumping straight into code, he now prototypes UI first using MagicPatterns: an AI-powered design tool that outputs real HTML/CSS. He scrapes and studies screenshots from competitors and uploads them as reference for AI refinement.

👩‍🍼 Gentle prompting: He codes everything inside Cursor, using LLMs for backend schema design, edge functions, and bug fixing. His secret? Adding the phrase: “Only write code when you’re 95% confident. Ask follow-ups first.” It drastically improved the quality of AI output.

📦 Tech stack: Next.js + Supabase for full-stack apps, with Cursor’s MCP (model context protocol) plugged in to give the AI visibility into database structure.

🔁 Iteration = screenshots + chat history: He keeps all conversation context in the same thread, uploads UI screenshots to fix bugs visually, and avoids starting new chats to preserve memory.

Create a full-featured CRM without writing a single line of code

TL;DR: This video shows how to build your own fully customized CRM using Knack—no devs or Zapier required. It’s a serious alternative to bloated tools like Salesforce and HubSpot.

🧩 Modular, not monolithic: Add only what you need: contacts, notes, deals, dashboards, user roles, all with drag-and-drop simplicity.

🔐 Role-based access: Sales reps only see their assigned leads, managers get dashboards for their whole team. All views are protected and dynamic.

⚙️ Native automations: Only pay for one tool. You can trigger flows, send Slack messages, and run conditional logic inside Knack itself.

📊 Custom reports: Managers get tailored charts showing rep performance—all filterable and built in minutes.

Automate your entire content strategy with 1 workflow

TL;DR: This 10-step automation built in n8n or Gumloop helps you go from idea scraping to ready-to-publish content across platforms—using Reddit, OpenAI, Claude, and Google Sheets.

🕵️ Scrape ideas at scale: Use Reddit/YT search nodes to pull the top 30 posts in your niche (sorted by “hot”). Feed them into a basic LLM chain to summarize and extract content angles tailored to X, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

📊 Organize and expand: Store everything in Google Sheets, auto-format it into themes, and expand promising ideas into outlines using OpenAI.

💥 Generate hooks: Use Claude to generate 3 AIDA-style hooks per idea based on your tone and preferred platform.

Push it all back into a spreadsheet, ready to post.
It’s a full-stack content system—making you a ~vibemarketer~

How this no-code builder cloned a $10K/day app with Replit + AI

TL;DR: Mikey, a creator with zero coding experience builds a full-featured health tracking app using Replit’s AI agent—complete with dashboards, playback, payments, and passive income setup.

🔁 Clone what already works: Instead of inventing something new, he rebuilt a successful sleep/snoring tracker app (like Snorl) using AI—proving that copying validated models > reinventing the wheel.

⚙️ Built entirely with Replit AI: From dashboard, data visualizations, and audio players to export features and sleep session analysis—every feature was generated or fixed using prompts. Errors? Just describe them and the agent patches the code.

What he built (with just prompts):

• Clean mobile-ready landing page

• Audio recording & playback

• Snoring detection & sleep analytics

• Medical-grade export features

• Stripe-powered premium plan