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The combination of ChatGPT and Phind helped me, a noob with 8 months of coding knowledge, build an app with real paying users and revenue. I would have never ac
by spaceman_2020 3y ago
The combination of ChatGPT and Phind helped me, a noob with 8 months of coding knowledge, build an app with real paying users and revenue. I would have never accomplished this on my own, and now I have a working prototype to find co-founders and possible investors.
- rushingcreek 3y agoFounder of Phind here. Hearing something like this really touches me and the team and this is exactly why we do what we do.
- spaceman_2020 3y agoThe Pair Programmer feature is absolutely fantastic and a massive gamechanger. It helped me figure out the architecture for a new app I'm planning. I showed it to a senior developer in my coworking space and he said - in his own words - "yep, that's how I would approach it too".
- rushingcreek 3y agoWow, that's amazing! We'd love to talk to you about your experience and hear your feedback -- my email is michael@phind.com.
- jiggawatts 3y agoHow on earth are you affording the OpenAI API fees?
- philipwhiuk 3y agoStarts with V and rhymes with sea.
- rahimnathwani 3y agoPlease write a blog post about your journey!
- jayant_kaushik 3y agoWould you mind sharing the app link? Curious to see what you made with the help of AI.
- spaceman_2020 3y agoUnfortunately that would mean doxxing myself. But its largely a somewhat complex CRUD app with a user dashboard. The stac is nextjs, tailwind, and nodejs, express on the backend.
- moneywoes 3y agoDid you use templates for the dashboard or just GPT, any complex prompting resources?
- spaceman_2020 3y agoI built most off my UI off of FlowBite (which is a tailwind UI library). Did not need to use complex prompting resources, though I would sometimes switch between Phind and chatGPT-4 to get a better answer. I think it works because its not a very complex app and since it's gated with a sufficiently high entry, I don't expect a ton of traffic, hence scaling is not an issue. I also chose the easiest options to deploy (Vercel for the frontned, Heroku for the backend), which might end up costing me in the long run - but I figure I'll get that fixed later
- chwa982 3y ago[dead]
- Woeps 3y agonoob with 8 months of coding knowledge? That's why you have posts like: My year in tech regrets ([insertyouwebsitehere].com) 7 points by spaceman_2020 on Jan 15, 2014 | past | 3 comments
- spaceman_2020 3y agoYou can be in tech without knowing how to code, you know :)
- JeremyNT 3y agoSorry, I'm just not seeing it. I've tried phind and it's almost always worse than a Google search. It often has a reasonable answer, but with Google I typically find more complete information and sometimes better rebuttals and alternatives. I view the thing as a neat toy. Can you learn from it? Maybe. But if you think this allows you to learn something you couldn't otherwise, I wonder if you're really being honest with yourself.
- spaceman_2020 3y agoI reckon the kind of questions I’m asking are way more basic than an experienced developer would. GPT-4 is likely way better at answering simpler questions since there is usually far more tutorial content geared towards noobs online than. I have no delusions that this is making me a good coder, or that I can carry this beyond the prototype stage - I fully intend to find a CTO/co-founder. But for someone going from 0 to 1, this has been a fantastic tool.
- moneywoes 3y agomay i ask how you got paying users?