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Scrappy – Make little apps for you and your friends

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Re: Scrappy – Make little apps for you and your friends

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Post by hiAndrewQuinn »

You can make an awful lot of useful little tools with an LLM, vanilla JavaScript, GitHub Pages, and the user's own localStorage as a semi-persistence layer. Two 9s and cross-platform to boot.

Recently I made a diet checklist [1] that I've been following more or less to the letter 5 days out of the week. I have a little Android button that just opens right up to the web page. I click, click, click, then move on with my day. If I feel I need to change something I can copy a plain text screenshot of what's on there currently and chat with Gemini about it.

I'm really liking this new wave of technology.

[1]: https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/diet-checklist/

Re: Scrappy – Make little apps for you and your friends

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Post by physicsguy »

selcuka wrote: post #8

I think "vibe coding" will not replace developers in the short term, but it will be the strongest competition for such simple systems. I asked a few LLMs to make apps like these (plain HTML with embedded JS), and they got it right after a few edits. They are also visually more appealing [1]. [1] https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/bb451732-9559-401a-8000-b...

It's got a bug, if you enter a non-integer like 3 + 2 = 5.1 then it marks that as correct

Re: Scrappy – Make little apps for you and your friends

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Post by zigman1 »

hiAndrewQuinn wrote: post #41

You can make an awful lot of useful little tools with an LLM, vanilla JavaScript, GitHub Pages, and the user's own localStorage as a semi-persistence layer. Two 9s and cross-platform to boot. Recently I made a diet checklist [1] that I've been following more or less to the letter 5 days out of the week. I have a little Android button that just opens right up to the web page. I click, click, click, then move on with m…

+1 over this. As someone without a deep technical background, LLMs enabled me to improve my life unimaginably, being able to quickly sketch and develop small features that remove every day annoyance.

Re: Scrappy – Make little apps for you and your friends

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Post by drchaos »

bryantt wrote: post #30
tokioyoyo wrote: post #20

One of the best things that I did was spending a week making a simple app that can put all my Apple Watch walks on a single big map, then sharing it with my friends after it got published on AppStore. It's been a year since I worked on it, but I still get messages from my friends (and some random people who found it!) how they've walked through an entire city or something. Really rewarding experience, despite having…

This sounds great, could you link the app please?

Not OP, but https://dawarich.app/ seems to do the same (open source and self-hostable, also has an iOS App).

Re: Scrappy – Make little apps for you and your friends

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Post by blips »

"We believe computers should work for people, and dream of a future where computing, like cooking or word processing, is available to everyone."

generic...

"with live updating — all for free. LLMs ar..." also see a fair few of these long dashes (18x) which is either a tell tail of you've used ChatGPT to generate the text or you've started writing like the AI.

I havn't thought about it that hard yet but i don't really like consuming AI generated content at all as soon as i see signs of it part of my brain turns off. And no slight to the creator, I have as much interest in writing this kind of copy as any developer would i'd imagine.

Re: Scrappy – Make little apps for you and your friends

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Post by ben_w »

blips wrote: post #46

"We believe computers should work for people, and dream of a future where computing, like cooking or word processing, is available to everyone." generic... "with live updating — all for free. LLMs ar..." also see a fair few of these long dashes (18x) which is either a tell tail of you've used ChatGPT to generate the text or you've started writing like the AI. I havn't thought about it that hard yet but i don't really…

> "with live updating — all for free. LLMs ar..." also see a fair few of these long dashes (18x) which is either a tell tail of you've used ChatGPT to generate the text or you've started writing like the AI.

It's also my IRL writing style for the last 10-15 years :P

That said:

> I havn't thought about it that hard yet but i don't really like consuming AI generated content at all as soon as i see signs of it part of my brain turns off.

Likewise.

At least, when someone else did the prompting — I do like what LLMs can output, but when LLM answers are sufficient I prefer to cut out the middle-man and ask the LLM directly myself.

Re: Scrappy – Make little apps for you and your friends

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Post by thunspa »

nilirl wrote: post #18

It's nice but I've yet to see a more usable end-user programming environment than the spreadsheet.

Or learning to actually code. I can't see why I would ever learn to use these kinds of tools.

As a developer, I can just make it myself. Now with LLMs, if it's very simple and bounded, I can just vibe most of it with very little to lose.

As a lay person, I don't see what the TAM for this is. Who will spend the time to learn how to drag and drop an application?

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