This Optimistic Life

Idea to App

you bring the idea — I'll write the prompt that builds it

Jamila, Justine's Bengal cat, sitting upright on a bed and staring straight at the camera.

my supervisor

Got an idea for an app, a tool, or a little website, but no clue where to start? Tell me what it is and the problem it solves. I'll hand you the exact prompt to paste into Lovable (an AI that builds it for you, no code). You could have something real today.

You don't need to be technical. You need to be clear. That part you can do.

1What do you want to make?

Pick the closest. It changes how I write the prompt.

2What's the problem you're solving?

The important one. Not the app, the problem. What's annoying you enough to build a fix? (e.g. "I can never see where my money goes between paydays.")

3Who's it for?

Just you is a perfectly good answer.

4The one thing they most need to be able to do?

The single most important action. Nail this and half the design decides itself.

5What should it feel like?

A word or two of style direction. Tap one or write your own.

calm and warm clean and minimal bright and playful premium and elegant bold and simple

6Anything it absolutely has to do?

Optional. A few plain lines. Leave blank and we'll keep it lean.

I've got a brand look it should use

Optional. Tick if you've got colours and fonts to match.

Colours

Fonts

Here's your starter prompt

Paste this straight into Lovable. It gets you a proper first version, built the right way. You add the rest after, one change at a time.

How to spend your credits well:

Paste this and get the first screen right before anything else.
Then change one thing per instruction. Use the Edit button for small tweaks.
Big vague rewrites eat credits. Small clear changes don't.

Stuck for an idea? I've built a finance tracker, a wellbeing lab, a wardrobe app and the dashboard that runs my content — all things that annoyed me enough to fix. See what I've made →

Now go make it

Pop your email in and I'll send you into Lovable with 10 bonus credits to start, plus my weekly-ish emails on building your own stuff, systems, and getting your time back.

You're in. Here's your link, and the honest truth about credits:

Lovable gives everyone 5 free credits a day. This link drops an extra 10 in to get you going. That'll get a working prototype up. If it's something complex you'll want more before long, but for a simple page it's plenty, and 5 more land every day, so you can start now and build slowly.

Get your 10 bonus credits →

Full transparency: if you ever go paid on Lovable through my link, I get a few free credits too. Zero pressure though — the free daily ones are honestly plenty to get you going.

Prefer the words to the tools? Read the Substack — one honest essay every Sunday.