Description
It's over. We no longer need to pay for productivity tools. We just build them ourselves.
👉 Learn to build your own in the new myICOR course, Build Your Own App With AI: https://www.myicor.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=WTqsrvRzqmI&utm_content=description
Three days after the membership platform, I built my own productivity app. Watch it: https://youtu.be/DaU1DdaH-4U
WATCH THIS NEXT
The proof of concept from three days ago, two productivity apps from two prompts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzv_cSUvxgA
ABOUT THIS VIDEO
Six months ago I would have told you that building your own productivity app is a waste of time. Not because of the code, but because you need to understand how a tool and a system work. Your comments on my last two videos changed my mind. You are ready.
The times of one tool for everyone are ending. We are all different, and the closer our tools fit how we work, the more time we spend in flow. What you need is not coding. It is the tool agnostic understanding of what you capture every day and where it belongs, and that is what the ICOR methodology gives you.
The proof is our own membership platform. Since 2019 we moved from WordPress to Circle to Mighty Networks, and none of them really fit our use case. With AI we built our own, and in the last three days I rebuilt the whole front end from scratch with our design library as the single source of truth. Half a day later it ran as a native iOS app.
You do not need to build a membership platform. But the app that fits your own work is now within reach.
CHAPTERS
00:00 You are ready to build your own apps
01:11 Why one-size-fits-all apps are over
03:33 My long tool list, and why it is over
05:10 A map of everything you capture every day
07:15 The live workshop with Paco
08:36 The ICOR framework: your tool stack mapped
09:27 The proof: six years of membership platforms
13:57 When you are ready to build your own tool
15:13 One year ago: my first vibe coded app
18:18 Opus 4.5, and our own membership platform
20:46 A new front end, built from scratch
21:34 Excalidraw, customized with AI
23:05 Before and after: the new myICOR
24:36 Half a day to a native iOS app
25:31 What you can build for yourself
WHAT I AM USING
Claude Opus 5.5 for the build, Sonnet 5.5 for fast prototypes, our own design library as the single source of truth, Supabase as the back end, and Excalidraw, customized with AI.
Learn to build your own in the new myICOR course, Build Your Own App With AI: https://www.myicor.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=WTqsrvRzqmI&utm_content=description
App 3 from the same week: I gave Claude four years of our lessons, and it built a full ICOR app:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYNVzRqTXek
ABOUT
Tom helps professionals build AI productivity systems that work, using the ICOR Methodology, courses, coaching, and the myICOR community.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomsolid/
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Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@productivitylikeapro
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