Product Building with AI

Abstract

A hands-on workshop, delivered to ~700 attendees at the Philippine Innovation Conference, on building real products with AI. Covers what makes a 'product', the levels and categories of AI, and the generative-AI toolchain, then a live case study building and deploying a hotel booking site and an employee management system with v0 and Vercel, plus the pitfalls of AI-assisted development.

Outline

1. 01What 'product' means: solving real problems, not clever demos
2. 02Levels and categories of AI
3. 03Generative-AI tools for product building
4. 04Case study: building products with v0
5. 05Deploying products with Vercel
6. 06Pitfalls of using AI in development

Key takeaways

• Build for a real problem; most startups fail solving ones no one has
• v0 plus Vercel takes an idea to a deployed product fast
• Know the pitfalls (POC purgatory, evaluation) before you ship

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