Hey Dad! We built an app: How college students with no coding experience pulled it off
Summary
Three college students with no coding experience created an app called Politik that helps people understand how lawmakers vote and where their campaign money comes from. They used AI tools and a self-taught programmer to build the app in under three months. The app aims to make political information easier to access and encourages users to engage with democracy.Key Facts
- James VandeHei Jr., Charlie Stallmer, and Chris Brophy are international relations majors who built the app.
- None of them had prior coding or software development experience.
- Politik shows voting records, campaign funding, and legislative activity based on users’ ZIP codes.
- They used artificial intelligence (AI) to plan, design, and create motion graphics and marketing materials for the app.
- A self-taught programmer named Nate Laquis built the software quickly, starting from his background in finance.
- The app launched on the App Store and is designed to be nonpartisan and data-driven.
- The creators encourage users to give feedback and want to build a community around the app.
- AI helped the team speed up tasks like video production and app development.
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