Another post about an AI tool
30 Jan 2025
I'm loving AI. Not for greating huge apps, but those little time-saving tools. Here's an example....
Wizard creating software

I've built myself a little icon creation app in the past, and dusted it off recently as I needed it again. I'm using the Iconify API to source the icons, but what I wanted to do was save the "templates". So if I created an icon for the social media links in my email, I wanted to save the the shape, size, color, and so on, so I could load them in future and create another similar image.

But I didn't want to create a full-on, authenticated, database-driven app. Not even using Laravel.

So I spun up cursor, and within 10 minutes had a Node app to accept any json payload, save it to a JSON array on the server, allow me to edit, delete, and update, and require authentication.

Another 10 minutes and I had it dockerized and deployed onto my docker server.

20 minutes, done and done. Amazing.

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