Made a fully functioning app for free with ZERO coding knowledge

[Guest /u/GizmoGuardian69]

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I’ve managed to make a fully functioning and not too bad looking app with little to no knowledge using AI. I’ve used cursor ai and xcode to make a car spotting app for me and my friends. You upload a photo or video (for videos a frame is taken from the beginning middle and end due to API limitations) compressed to >3mb (again API limitations) and sent to a free number plate recognition API (free version can only handle still photos hence the frame grabbing step), originally designed for car park monitoring i believe. the plate is then displayed. The plate is then sent to a vehicle detail website, now the APIs for these were all expensive or unavailable, so for this i’m using web scraping (app emulates a human user to navigate website and pull data). Note: many websites restrict this and is against T&C, the one i’m using did not mention it, the app is also not going to be publicly released so not an issue at this point. Data is then pulled from the website and displayed alongside the plate, and the photo and video of the car. You can favourite, search, and filter results by any metric of performance or brand etc. There is also a stats page that can show fastest or most powerful cars and other trend data. I also implemented a login and friend system to view your friends car spots although this hit the limitation of a steep paywall very quickly so didn’t work in the real world. This process came across many errors and crashes, but the AI on cursor told me exactly what it needed to see (eg. console dialog) and would then fix the bug within seconds. I have learnt a lot from this despite not writing the code myself about how swift language functions and xcodes navigation. To add this entire process has taken LESS THAN 24hrs. The AI has handled everything perfectly and has been able to integrate APIs, web scraping and online data handling and friending and login systems without an issue and i have been blown away. Sure it’s not perfect, sometimes it crashes, some functions are slow, but with 0mins spent optimizing anything, it’s pretty damn good, just wanted to share what can be done by a complete novice for free in such short time, hope someone appreciates this. Thanks! submitted by /u/GizmoGuardian69 [link] [comments]