{
  "id": 10080923,
  "title": "How to Build Apps with AI: From Idea to API (Or X)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/26/how-to-build-apps-with-ai-from-idea-to-api-or-x",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-26T22:52:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/ibengeu/how-to-build-apps-with-ai-from-idea-to-api-or-x-25jo"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "AI can assist in creating useful applications without producing subpar software. This guide outlines a human-led workflow for transforming a product idea into a fully realized application, using Orbit, a Slack-style team chat demo, as a case study. The process covers requirements gathering, feature implementation, API design, and verification. The source text illustrates how AI-generated code should be reviewed and verified by humans before it can be considered production-ready.",
  "summary": "Can AI help you build useful apps without settling for slop? This guide shows a human-led workflow for taking a product idea through requirements, feature-level implementation, API design, and verification. I use Orbit, a Slack-style team chat demo, as a case study. You can apply the process to your own product, whether you write code or are still shaping the idea. My first prompt was simple: “I…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}