Alpha [al-fuh]
noun.
: the first; the beginning.
: Computers., an early phase of hardware or software development, in which the product is tested by its developers or manufacturers.
Quick Recap:
Stay in touch w/ Friends
We are building a simple v0.1 of BetterFriend app by using a chatbot to remind people their loved one’s birthday with AI.
It’s live!
I’ll start letting friends test it once I get to Beta. which would be in a day or two.
So far I’m proud of deploying this live. I’ll share some of the learnings tomorrow.
Last week of Proj #1
We are coming up on the final days. Here we can check the progress of what we’ve learned and built:
IDE - VSCode + Claude 4 Github Copilot
Github - Commits / Branches - Trunk Base Development
(No Dev Environment Setup yet)
Database - Prisma Neon PostgresSQL w/ Next.js hosted on Vercel
AI Interpretor - Gemini 2.5 mini
Front End - Telegram Bot API
Remaining:
Reminder / Scheduling - Trigger.dev (Serverless scheduling)
More Sophisticated interactions - Telegram Bot Building
See ya tomorrow!
(⚡️BetterFriend Project Day 8 - 38)