Developer with no formal experience builds bird-collecting app with Grok Bot in 26 hours
The author used Grok Bot to build a bird-spotting collectible app in about 26 hours, where users photograph birds to identify, collect and rank them on a global leaderboard, and 8 of the 40 prompts were spoken to the manager bot while out walking.
Over the weekend I used Grok @bot to build a bird-spotting collectible app (took ~26 hours). Spot a bird, take a pic, and let the app identify, collect, and rank it for you on a global leaderboard. Think Pokemon Go, but for birds! My tech setup was simple: > Bird identification w/ @bot > Stupid easy sign-in w/ passkeys (@zerodev) > Records are stored on the blockchain (@arbitrum) > Rarity is determined using GBIF, a global database of bird sightings Also added @X verification for those who want increased upload limits, mainly to avoid spam. The coolest part? Of my 40 prompts to @bot, 8 of them was me speaking directly to my manager bot to make changes whilst I went for a walk outside. Grok Bot did literally all of the logic, managing, development, etc for me. As someone with 0 formal development experience, I'm absolutely amazed at out how easy and straight forward this was. Fully convinced @bot is SI.