Show HN: I made a non-trivial iOS app with GPT-4 in just a few hours

10 points by yosito 3 years ago

After being inspired by your responses to the Ask HN thread yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35299071), I decided to see if I could use ChatGPT to make a functioning app. I picked a random project idea out of my Notebook of Amazing Ideas, and spent just a couple of hours using GPT-4 to build it. I've never built an iOS app before, and even if I made something like this as a web app (my usual job), I would expect it to take at least a week. My process was basically 1) Ask ChatGPT to write some code 2) Copy and paste the code into the right files (this took a little bit of React knowledge on my part). 3) Run the code and paste any errors back to ChatGPT and ask it for suggested solutions. 4) Repeat.