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I know you have been loving everything I have been showing you on the channel lately about building apps. Above all, you like the fact that we are putting AI at our disposal so that we oversee the thinking while the AI turns our ideas into reality. However, several of you have reached out saying that while you love it, it still feels a bit too technical.
You have asked for a simpler alternative. Well, while I was researching what to do, the team at Softr reached out to me. They told me they were launching something absolutely incredible, and they were right.
They offered to sponsor a video, and I agreed on the condition that my audience gets something out of it. If you register through my link, you will receive 200 free AI credits to use in your applications. I am not making this video just because Softr is sponsoring it, but because what they have released is genuinely amazing.
So, what exactly have they done? They have released a feature that allows you to build real applications, websites, client portals, and CRMs directly inside Softr. You simply tell an AI what you want it to do, and it builds it for you.
You might say that there are already thousands of apps on the market that do similar things. While many platforms generate code that you can export, they are not true no-code tools because you still have to deal with code if you want to modify or scale them. Softr changes this completely.
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Note from Softr: What Ruben describes here is exactly what our AI co-builder was designed to do. You can bypass a blank canvas and use AI to automatically generate the pages, design, and data layout. Plus, data is natively stored in Softr Databases for maximum performance without needing external spreadsheets.
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This makes it the perfect tool for anyone who wants to dive into application building without making things complicated. It uses a drag-and-drop interface, making it just as easy as using standard productivity tools. If you have seen my previous videos about Softr, you know it is highly intuitive but can scale to be as complex as you need.
Now, imagine adding the power of AI to create all of this instantly. I am going to show you a practical, live example so you can see exactly how cool this is. If you go to create a new application, you will see an option to generate it with AI.
Clicking that opens a window where you can explain what you want to build. I am going to paste a prompt I already prepared so you can see what I am asking for. I requested a sales prospecting CRM for an agency.
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Note from Softr: Building a scalable CRM is an incredibly powerful use case. You can explore how others implement this through our CRM capabilities overview, or jumpstart your project instantly with our AI CRM template.
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The system manages deals in a visual sales pipeline with complete profiles for each potential client. The user can add deals manually or import them. Each deal includes the business name, sector, address, city, phone, email, website, rating, and social media profiles.
From the business list, the user can quickly triage by marking each lead as interested or discarded with a single click. Those marked as interested automatically enter the sales pipeline. The pipeline is a kanban board with columns for uncontacted, contacted, awaiting response, negotiating, won, and lost.
Users drag cards between these columns, and each card shows the business name, sector, email status, and colored labels. Inside each business, there is a comprehensive item details block. This includes full contact data, social networks, and a section for individual contacts within the company showing names, emails, and roles.
It also includes chronological team notes, attached documents, proposals, contracts, and customizable colored tags. This essentially covers the core functionality of any standard CRM. We will also set up two specific user groups: an admin who sees everything and configures the pipeline, and a sales rep who only sees their assigned deals.
The admin can also see metrics, deals by stage, conversion rates, and team activity. I initially included a prompt about clean design with dark colors and blue accents, but I will remove that and let the AI decide on the design. You can easily generate a detailed prompt like this using tools like ChatGPT by just explaining your basic needs.
Once everything is ready, you submit the prompt and the AI goes to work. It will start asking you follow-up questions to refine the app. For example, it asks me if I want to import deals via CSV, Excel, copying and pasting, or all of the above.
I will select CSV or Excel. Then it asks how the deals should be assigned to each sales representative. This is a key difference from other AI tools because it proactively asks clarifying questions to ensure the final product is exactly what you need.
I will choose manual assignment by the admin. Then it asks what colored labels I need, and I will specify free-form labels that can be created and edited as needed. That takes care of the functional questions, and now it asks how people should log in.
I want them to log in via a standard email and password. When it asks if people can register on their own, I will say no since I want to invite them manually. Next, it asks about the navigation layout for desktop and mobile.
For the desktop version, we will place the navigation on the left side. For the mobile version, we will put it at the bottom in a navigation bar. Since I skipped specifying the design earlier, it finally asks me to select a visual theme.
I will choose a theme with orange and white accents that matches my own website style. Then, I just click to create my application. The AI starts processing everything we just discussed to build out the complete software structure.
It outlines exactly what it is generating step by step. And this is where things get really interesting with Softr. Because, in other...
