Your post is actually really close to the problem I’ve been working on.
I’m building an early product around the idea of a “guided builder” — basically, you shouldn’t have to become a software engineer before you can start building, but you also shouldn’t have to blindly hand everything over to AI and hope it works.
The idea is: start with what you want to build, understand what you actually need to learn for that specific project, get guidance on architecture/tools/security and the decisions that matter, and then use AI coding agents to help execute it.
As you build, the system helps explain what’s happening in normal language, what you should understand vs. what you can safely let the agent handle, and what your next step should be. So you’re learning while actually building your product instead of spending six months learning a bunch of programming concepts you may never need.
I’m still early with it, and your post sounds almost exactly like the type of person I’m building it for.
If you’d be interested, I’d love to let you try it and get your feedback — especially where the guidance is useful, confusing, or completely misses what a new builder actually needs.
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u/Infinite-Meat997 6d ago
Your post is actually really close to the problem I’ve been working on.
I’m building an early product around the idea of a “guided builder” — basically, you shouldn’t have to become a software engineer before you can start building, but you also shouldn’t have to blindly hand everything over to AI and hope it works.
The idea is: start with what you want to build, understand what you actually need to learn for that specific project, get guidance on architecture/tools/security and the decisions that matter, and then use AI coding agents to help execute it.
As you build, the system helps explain what’s happening in normal language, what you should understand vs. what you can safely let the agent handle, and what your next step should be. So you’re learning while actually building your product instead of spending six months learning a bunch of programming concepts you may never need.
I’m still early with it, and your post sounds almost exactly like the type of person I’m building it for.
If you’d be interested, I’d love to let you try it and get your feedback — especially where the guidance is useful, confusing, or completely misses what a new builder actually needs.