Video of me coding a Booklet AI feature

Yesterday, I added a new feature to Booklet. I used OpenAI to suggest new posts to write, to make it easier for members to post. It looks like this:

Inspired by a podcast I was listening to on the way to my office, I decided to record the process of building the feature and publish it as a video.

You can watch the full video here, where I go from idea to launching the feature to all Booklet communities in two and a half hours. I hope it’s helpful to see how I work, the tools I use, and my workflow for building an AI-powered feature from scratch.

Notes from the recording

Booklet is an async community app as an alternative to chat
Coded using Ruby on Rails and Hotwire
Used Apple Note as a Working Memory file.
Edited code with Cursor
Used Arc as the main web browser, but I use Responsively to view the app in multiple screen sizes
Styled the app using Tailwind with help from Tailwind UI, Heroicons, and some Tailwind Stimulus Components
Monitored OpenAI calls with Helicone

Video of me coding a Booklet AI feature

Notes from the recording

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