Sometimes writers get wacky ideas. Well, I’ll speak for myself. I get wacky ideas.
Those wacky ideas sometimes turn into stories. Sometimes, they turn into other things. Like businesses, web apps, or something else.
Sneak Preview: My Latest Wacky Idea
This past week, I decided to play around with ChatGPT’s coding functions and asked it to create a web app. Now, I’ve tried those no-code website-building platforms in the past, and I always got lost, because I still needed to have some beyond-basic understanding of coding. And I’m not kidding.
I taught myself HTML years ago. Dealing with WordPress over the years, I’ve learned to play with CSS, PHP, and JavaScript. Nothing fancy. Just making tweaks to themes, and things like that.
My experience with ChatGPT this week was completely different. I asked it a simple question:
Do you have the ability to create web apps? If so, which version of ChatGPT should I use for creating a web app?
Okay, so that’s two questions. But ChatGPT answered in the affirmative, recommended GPT-4-turbo, to which I was already subscribed, and we went to work. Within a day, I had a web app. Feel free to check out our conversation right here.
Now, I don’t mean to imply there weren’t any snags. There were some snags. Mostly, the snags were me learning developer lingo as ChatGPT tutored me on how to do basic things that any novice developer should know — only I’m not a novice developer.
Anyhoo, after one attempt and several developer tool downloads, we scratched the effort and started over. We took a different route.
ChatGPT wrote the code for me (100% of it!), I uploaded that code to GitHub (which involved creating a GitHub account), and then deployed it on Render. Once fully deployed, I inserted the iframe code into a Custom HTML block in WordPress, and I now have a fully functioning web app that allows anyone (yes, anyone!) the ability to write a flash fiction story of up to 1,000 words, save it, and share it with their friends. All story content is owned by the authors, not me.
How rad is that?
Well, if you care to take a dare, I invite you to test drive my Flash Fiction Writer app.
Now, I’m off to work on a couple of snazzy upgrades with my good friend ChatGPT.
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This seems to be a great app i will bookmark this post so I can test it later.
Cool. I'd be interested in your thoughts on it.