Building an iPhone app with zero technical skills | Bryce Rattner Keithley
How I AI
Jun 01
Building an iPhone app with zero technical skills | Bryce Rattner Keithley
Building an iPhone app with zero technical skills | Bryce Rattner Keithley
How I AI
Jun 01
Bryce Rattner Keithley hasspent her career in talent and recruiting, working with technical leaders but never writing a line of code herself. Yet she managed to build Daily Hundred—a fitness app featuring custom AI-generated videos of anthropomorphic animals demonstrating exercises—and ship it to the App Store before her software engineer friends. Using Replit, Claude, Gemini, and a relentless beginner’s mindset, Bryce proves that in the AI era, execution is no longer the constraint on good ideas.
What you’ll learn:
- How to build and ship an iPhone app using Replit without any coding knowledge
- The step-by-step process for creating custom AI-generated workout videos by combining Gemini images with real exercise footage
- How to use Claude as your technical architect and Claude Code as your software engineer
- How to navigate App Store submission requirements (including fixing rejection feedback)
- Why being hyper-literal in your prompts unlocks better AI results
- Why a beginner’s mind is actually an advantage when building with AI tools
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In this episode, we cover:
(00:00) Introduction to Bryce and Daily Hundred
(04:48) Building with Replit
(06:16) The beginner’s mindset advantage
(11:17) Creating anthropomorphic animals
(22:55) Moving from static image to video
(27:15) The floating genie and other anthropomorphic animal generations
(30:46) Shifting from web app to App Store submission
(36:24) User feedback
(37:41) Lightning round and final thoughts
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Tools referenced:
• Replit: https://replit.com/
• Lovable: https://lovable.dev/
• Claude: https://claude.ai/
• Claude Code: https://claude.ai/code
• Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/
• Higgsfield: https://higgsfield.ai/
• Kling: https://kling.ai/
• Railway: https://railway.app/
• TestFlight: https://developer.apple.com/testflight/
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Other references:
• How a 91-year-old vibe coded a complex event management system using Claude and Replit | John Blackman: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-a-91-year-old-vibe-coded-a-complex
• What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: https://www.amazon.com/What-Got-Here-Wont-There/dp/1401301304
• How Women Rise: https://www.amazon.com/How-Women-Rise-Holding-Careers/dp/0316440124
• A Whole New Mind: https://www.amazon.com/Whole-New-Mind-Right-Brainers-Future/dp/1594481717
• How to Win Friends and Influence People: https://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0671027034
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Where to find Bryce Rattner Keithley:
GitHub: https://github.com/brk-bot/
Daily Hundred on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/daily100-fitness-challenge/id6762108062
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Where to find Claire Vo:
ChatPRD: https://www.chatprd.ai/
Website: https://clairevo.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairevo/
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Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email jordan@penname.co.
