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Welcome, humans!
We’re going live in 5 minutes (10:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET) for AI App Building 101, where we’ll talk through the strategies, trial and error, and actual “wait, how did we get this online?” steps that worked for us.
Grant and Corey are going live today at 10:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET to show the apps, games, extensions, writing systems, mini MMOs, and oddly specific tools they built with AI, then walk through the beginner version of how those projects went from “this should exist” to “here’s the live link.”
If you have ever looked at an AI-built app and thought, “Cool, but how do I actually make one?” this one is for you. No coding ego, no mystery fog, no pretending GitHub is spiritually obvious. We’re covering the first steps, the messy middle, and the deployment part that turns a demo into something people can use.
We’ll cover:
The real projects we built: Corey’s Bean Counter, Tab Crusher, Threadline, Circle Back, and On Deck, plus Grant’s FlowState, Orchestrator, LTX CineScript, Sqwirl World, and more.
How we got started as non-“let me hand-code the universe” builders: starting in AI Studio, moving projects into GitHub, then using Codex / Claude Code to clean up, debug, and keep building.
The beginner-friendly hosting stack: Cloudflare for tiny tools, Railway for games and full-stack apps, Fly.io for API-like projects, and App Store Connect / TestFlight when Corey talks mobile.
What broke, what burned too many tokens, what we would do differently, and the simple rules we’d give anyone trying to ship their first AI-built app.
The goal is simple: leave with a mental map for building your first ugly-but-real app, putting it on GitHub, and getting it live without needing to become a full-stack wizard in a dark hoodie first.
Bring your questions, especially the basic ones. If you have one project idea you keep putting off, we’ll try to make the path from idea to live URL feel a lot less cursed.
Watch next: would you trust an AI surgeon?
Yesterday’s episode with Inner Logic CTO and co-founder Mathias Unberath.
Yesterday, Grant sat down with Mathias Unberath of Inner Logic to talk about autonomous surgery, soft-tissue robotics, and what has to be proven before AI moves from assisting surgeons to taking on more of the procedure itself.
Watch/listen now: YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts
Stay curious,
The Neuron Team
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