EVERYDAY... I'm Building the idea. Chatting with AI and Shipping it.
My message: Pretend you know what you're doing. Learn as you go.
All you need to do is LITERALLY have a CONVERSATION with AI. (I’m typing now, but this is going to soon be a voice conversation). No coding involved.
The secret? Just start. Today.
Over the next month, I’m going to post what I’ve been building, chatting with AI about, learning and shipping.
Let’s have a conversation.
WORDERLY.app
Back in 1976 my dad had an idea for a Dictionary Game and wrote it all out in a notebook.
He called the game “The Dictionary Game”. To play it, the player got a dictionary word, and then guessed the five closest words above, in the dictionary and the five closest words below it. Scoring was based on how far away the guesses/positions of the words were from the given word of the day. The word right next to it would get 10 points, and the ones further away would get less. Pretty cool, right?
So last November I was cleaning out a basement closet and found this game write up and decided that I would create the game as an app for him for Christmas. He LOVED IT! (here’s a pic my daughter posted of him seeing it for the first time).
With Bolt.new, I was able to literally describe what I wanted and it pretty much got the whole game working in less than an hour (as I clarified and gave more specific instructions). I spent the following month (here and there) improving it and adding features and functions like “Streaks”, user accounts and sharing mechanisms.
It’s called: WORDERLY.APP and you can get it and play it now! I’m still working on it and making it better. So, if you have suggestions, please let me know.
Resources: Bolt.new, an-array-of-english-words, Supabase
TimeToComplete: Couple months