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31 May 2026 | in ai

Last night I built an app from my phone.. while watching a movie.

By the time the credits rolled, it was online & I was already using it 🤯

The movie wasn't great (hence the side project).

But picking what to watch is something I'd wanted to fix for years: I'd built lists on IMDb & TMDB, tested a handful of apps.. nothing ever did exactly what I wanted.

So, mid-movie, I opened Claude on my phone (the project lives on my computer at home, I just drive it remotely) and started building.

By the end of the film, I had a working app:

🎬 2,000+ movies pre-loaded, with all the details
🔍 filters & watched-lists to track what I've seen
🍿 AI recommendations for me, for me & my son, or for family Friday nights

Not a single line of code written.

I've already used it more today than every other solution I'd tried, combined.

This was a personal itch.. but the same capability works for business, every day.

Beyond writing emails, with AI you can now build the documents, dashboards & custom tools we used to wait days or weeks for (or never got).

And the building part barely takes any effort now..

Still amazed, every single day 🤓

Love working with AI so much! 🚀