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I host a very very small (< 20 downloads per episode) podcast and am interested in doing a series of podcasts based on our experiences as developers of using chatGPT or chatGPT like tools to build a simple web app while doing as little actual coding as possible.

I'd like to build a small web app but I'm not sure exactly what yet. This will be just for experimental purposes. Maybe something like a super basic twitter or yelp clone would be a nice level of complexity for chatGPT.

One person could work on the frontend while the other works on the backend. I've been a backend dev most of my career but I'm comfortable doing frontend work too. We collaborate to fulfill some feature. Push our code to a repo. Once that feature is done, we'd record a remote video podcast about it discussing what it was like getting AI to generate the code.

The objective is to have fun while playing with cool tech. We could also address some questions with first hand experience:

1. Is chatGPT going to take my job as a software engineer?

2. Can I not work and let chatGPT do all my work now?

3. How much actual work did it take to build the web app?

4. How frequently did the AI spit out working code the first time?

These are my only must haves, everything else I'm open to changes:

1. The objective is to do as little actual coding/work as possible. Even letting AI style and produce a logo is preferable.

2. We podcast about our experience

3. The web app must be actually functional (not perfect) at the end of it

People I'm looking for:

1. Has enough technical ability (frontend or backend) to fix or write code to deploy a basic web app

2. Has enough free time to see this through. I'm not trying to build something large and beautiful. I'm OK with only doing one feature and podcast episode per week. Maybe a couple hours of building and an hour of podcasting

3. Has somewhat good communication skills. The death nail in any podcast is rambling so the ability to communicate somewhat concisely would be great (I'm not amazing at this either BTW)

FYI Your real identity does not have to be used or tied to this in any way. I do not tie my real identity to my podcast.

If this sounds fun to you, please email me a short summary of why you want to do this and what your rough schedule looks like.

For example: "Hey I'm John. I'm really curious about working with AI tools and this is a perfect way to do that. I'm a frontend engineer and am most familiar with React. I'm located on the west coast of the U.S and am free after 5:30 pm weekdays and most of the time on the weekends."

My email address in my profile. I'm also open to suggestions or advice. Would you find this podcast series interesting?