From Zero Motivation to Live App in Using Only AI
I just wanted to learn something new. I ended up launching a product.
You woke up on the first day of the new year.
Still dark outside.
You made plans. New year’s resolutions.
But working felt impossible. No motivation. No hope. Just your bed, your tablet, and a TV series with new episodes waiting.
That was me five days ago.
I opened YouTube. Not to work. Just to find something to pull me out of the fog.
But then I stumbled on a video. And instead of just watching, I did something different. I trained a NotebookLM with it.
Next, I connected it to Gemini. and build an app from it.
What came next surprised me.
Motivation
I've built several digital mentors for myself on NotebookLM. They speak to me. Motivate me in real time.
I explained everything on this one. Here is the video so you can listen if you did not already.
But this wasn’t enough for me.
What if I could build something bigger?
Something with different motivators. Not AI voices. Historical figures. People we actually admire. Marcus Aurelius. Nikola Tesla. The minds that shaped how we think.
But this NotebookLM + Gemini connection couldn’t do what I wanted. Too limited. So what now?
I knew Claude Code could handle all of this. I’ve built entire apps with it before. But I also recently discovered something new.
Google Antigravity
Google’s new AI-powered IDE.
Not just another code editor. This one is different, powered by AI models.
Not just Google’s AI models, you can use Claude’s models and even OpenAI’s open source model, GPT-OSS.
You can also access the Agent Manager.
Here, you can assign different tasks while your app is building on Antigravity, and these tasks will run concurrently.
For instance, I’ve designed the logo here.
You can give more than one task here and let agents do these one-by-one.
Claude Code Inside Antigravity
Next, click on extensions, install Claude Code, and open it, and voila!
Let Claude Code do complex tasks while Antigravity works on others.
For instance, I’ve built my frontend using Antigravity, but Claude Code let me build the backend, perfect harmony.
Digital Mentor
Now, everyone has a different point to motivate themselves.
For instance, I love a stoic mindset, but you might be more futuristic, and Nikola Tesla can motivate you.
Here are the current Digital Motivators that I’ve built. (20 more)
I took the most influential 20 people in the world from this book
The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
I excluded religious figures to avoid misunderstandings.
You can also change the behaviour of your Digital Mentor.
You can train the voice you want, add Eleven Labs voice ID and API, and talk with the one who motivates you, not just typing; you can also talk with them too.
Workflow
But what was the initial prompt?
How did you connect to the database?
How did you add user authentication?
How did you integrate Stripe?
How did you promote the app?
In this one, we’ll build the entire app together, add a database connection, user integration, and Stripe connection.
At the end, you’ll see a full working app, and this app will be live, amazing, right?
We’ll do everything by prompting.