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How we use AI at Impulse 🤔 When I started Impulse AI, we needed to build a functional frontend for the product. We didn’t have capacity on the team to build the frontend ourselves, so I started reaching out to contractors on Upwork. The estimates were somewhere between $3,000 to $5,000. The plan was to get the frontend built, and then our engineering team would take over to integrate it with our backend systems. Derek Anderson (thank you so much 😀) introduced me to v0 by Vercel. I figured, why not give it a shot? My process was fairly simple: For each page, I'd prompt for the basic layout, then focus on reducing unnecessary functionality to keep it lean, fix the user experience, and finally work on styling. What I built wasn't the most visually stunning application out there, but it’s intuitive, easy to use, and readable.
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The remarkable part? I built that entire frontend in about 10 hours, and it cost $60 for the v0 credits and subscription. Once I was happy with it, I handed the code to our engineering team to connect it to our backend and productionize it. However, it wasn't all smooth sailing. v0 definitely has some issues. It can be slow, the code can be overcomplicated, and it can take a few tries to get simple things done like changing the styling of the nav bar. BUT, I was impressed with how quickly it allowed me to develop and deploy a basic frontend. It was a pretty cool experience to be able to design and develop a UI myself. I try to experiment with LLMs and agents as much as I can, but this is one of the few times that I saw a huge difference in my workflow. If you have a tool that you like, please share! 🤯💸💪😀
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