https://jeannen.com/making-an-app-in-a-day/ fbpx Jeannen * Home * Apps * Blog * Twitter 10 November 2022 Making an app in 3h and getting the first sale! [out-0-47] 6:00 We're the 10 November of 2022. I'm building 2 apps, but then I saw this tweet while at the gym: [image-15-1024x472] I already edited old pictures for my mom using A.I. (she love genealogy and old stuffs), so I know how to do it and how to get the best quality. So let's go, goal of today: having the app ready by 19:00 (I have to go to the restaurant with my GF after that). FInishing the session and then ready to start. 07:30 Ready to start. Finished my gym session, shower taken, gonna eat a very quick breakfast and then ready to work. Since I have no time, I'll copy/paste the landing page design from MyAIPainting.com and change the copy. Gonna Typeform/Tally/Stripe somehow and fine a way to automate it later. No time to waste. 07:45 Let's go! Gonna write each hour what I did. 08:45 Alright, landing page copy is ready (I'm quick at writing copies), and technical tests ready, tried with multiple pics my mom sent me and the results are really impressive. Took lots of tweaking between the different models but I think I got a process that works well. I won't do automatic stuff at the beginning unless I have time to code it today, manual 24 hour delivery should be good enough to validate the concept I think. 09:45 [image-16-1024x453] Landing page is done! I added pictures, made a logo, bought the domain and finalized a few more stuff. Gonna use Typeform to accept orders at first. Gonna make the social media sharing picture and stuff now. It's still pretty early so I guess I'll try to automate it? Will probably take more than a day, as there are lots of things I need to learn for that. I prefer to do it manually at first to guarantee the best quality 10:10 Website published! https://photorestore.app 11:00 Hey @njsj, so, I was already doing it for my mom (she's into genealogy), so I put together a landing page for you of you're interested! Let me know if you have feedback https://t.co/KvOAupqYAE -- Nico (@nico_jeannen) November 10, 2022 Posted the tweet and got an answer from the OP, that's cool! I will probably post inside Facebook Groups and stuff. For now I won't automate it, as I want to manually handpick the quality. For the price, I put a random number, not too high but not pennies either as Stripe has flat fees of $0.30 with the %. I think $10 for 10 pictures is pretty fair, considering you get multiple variations of each. 11:49 Alright, focus of this afternoon: Making a "free" version of the app. People can register and make one picture per month for free or smth like that. 13:40 FIRST CUSTOMER!! YAY! The person I answered the comment just placed an order and added some suggestions 15:25 Pictures are done, I sent him a .zip I really hope he will be satisfied with the quality. If so, it officially mean I have a (micro)business! I need to add: * Google Auth * Credit system I keep getting this so I'll need to find another tutorial [image-18] 11/11/2022 Alright, wasted yesterday day trying to make that oAuth shit work but it's too complicated, I'll just use my own login system. Really don't understand why they make it so hard to use fking Google to login. Alright, added auth, Stripe and the credit system. Gonna add more pricing options tomorrow. 12/11/2022 Gonna do some polishing and adding more price options [image-19-1024x847] People love "free" stuff (source), so I added free credits with each option. Code is garbage but hey, for now it works! 15/11/2022 K, gonna start marketing for the app soon so I will have to automate stuff a bit, that's going to be the focus of this week. If it doesn't works, I'll have learned new skills anyway. Things I want to do (and learn) by Friday: * Automate the A.I. stuff: Shouldn't be hard * Improved user interface where user can see and download their pictures * Uploading/Downloading photos: No idea how to do that, probably require a CDN? Very useful skill for later * Google Authentication: Gonna try one more time to make that thing work with Passport Hopefully I'll be able to make all that work BEFORE friday, so I can do some marketing and then publish my other side project this weekend! --------------------------------------------------------------------- [image-21-1024x512] [image-22-464x1024] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Spent the whole afternoon trying to make AWS S3 work. Why is it so fking complicated, for real, it's just uploading a picture, shouldn't be that hard. Used ImgKit + express-upload, took me less than 2 minutes to upload a file using Node. Almost took me the whole day for that lol. Gonna hit the bed, wanna go gym tomorrow. JUST MADE THE SECOND SALE!!! 16/11/2022 Working incredibly slowly today, I'm very tired somehow. Still managed to have the upload + UI working tho! [image-23-1024x482] [image-24-1024x512] It's not luxury but that will do it for now! If I get more sales I'll improve the UI later. Just need to find a way to make people download from clicking the button (blocked by Chrome if the picture is not on the same domain ) and that will be good! * User interface: Done * CDN to upload pictures: Done * Automate the A.I. pipeline: Tomorrow * Google Auth: Friday (hopefully) Gonna take a small break for today, gotta see friends for a farewell, and I'm super tired + headache. 17/11/2022 Alright, took a few hours off, ready to start the day now! Goal of today: Automate the pipeline. [image-25-728x1024] Can't believe it worked on the first try! App is now fully automated!! I need to improve the pipelines, but technically, it seems like it's working, yay! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lol, that actually was the easy part, managing the pipelines is melting my brain. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Finally got it working, damnit! Done for today, my brain is dead Still need a few fix but tomorrow I should be able to work on Google Auth. (c) 2022 Jeannen