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Hey Dad! We built an app: How college students with no coding experience pulled it off
After a summer working for Congress, the three of us had the same realization.
TL;DR
- Politik is a nonpartisan app designed to make voting records, campaign finance, and legislative activity accessible to the public.
- The app was developed by college juniors with no prior coding or software development experience, utilizing AI as a primary tool.
- AI enabled the team to learn skills like motion graphics, animation, and automated marketing campaigns, and facilitated the app's rapid creation.
- The app was built by Nate Laquis, a self-taught programmer and AI savant, in under three months.
- The developers emphasize AI's ability to amplify passions, the importance of context in AI tasks, and the value of precise prompts.