Worst Dev Tendencies (build an app in 4 hours) · Web Dev Challenge S2.E5

Sponsored by Intuit — What could you create if you had 30 minutes to plan and 4 hours to build? Seve Savoie Teruel, Ben Pack, Lyn Scott Jr., Ebrima Jobe, Bryn Newell, and Jacob Singer take on the Web Dev Challenge to find out. ## The Challenge As developers, we all know the urge to spend hours automating a task that would have taken us minutes is overpowering. In this challenge, we want you to give in to that urge and automate something in your life that you find mildly inconvenient. Why *do* a thing when you could spend an inordinate amount of time building an app that does the thing *for you*? No task is too small. No inconvenience too minor. We want to see you create apps that automate your life in extremely specific, personal ways. Do you have to send that one friend a reminder text to make sure they show up on time for your plans? Build an app for that! Sick of doing tech support for your family? Create an AI agent that reads the manual and responds on your behalf. You can keep it simple and practical, or go big and channel your inner Rube Goldberg — anything goes! ## The Sponsor: Intuit **Intuit wants to empower the builders in our community. There’s no required tool this time around — *you* are the secret ingredient here.** Combine your skills in web development, problem solving, creative thinking, and leveraging new technologies like AI agents or MCP to build your personal problem-solving web app. *THE DEVS* - Bryn Newell https://bsky.app/profile/bryn.codes https://bryn.codes - Jacob Singer (@jacobleesinger) https://jacobleesinger.com - Lyn Scott Jr. https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyn-scott-jr/ https://bridgletics.com/ - Ebrima Jobe https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebrimajobe/ - Ben Pack https://www.linkedin.com/in/packbenpack/ - Seve Savoie Teruel (@Reactvts) https://reactvts.com/ *THE ADVISORS* Alexander Gusman (@gooooseman) https://devsparks.goooseman.dev/ Jason Lengstorf (@codetv-dev) https://jason.energy/links *THE APPS* - Bryn and Jacob's eLiterate: https://github.com/bryn-newell/web-dev-challenge - Lyn and Ebrima's AI DJ: https://github.com/whatstba/streamie - Ben and Seve's Healthy Or Else: https://github.com/techsev/healthy-or-else ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Get early access to new videos, exclusive bonus content and other perks, and join me in building a happier, healthier, friendlier web dev community! https://codetv.dev/support ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapters: 0:00 In this episode... 0:32 Welcome + the challenge 0:55 Required tool + meet your advisor + Intuit's values 1:38 Planning phase starts 2:33 Meet Ben and Seve + their app idea 4:09 Meet Bryn and Jacob + their app idea 6:04 Meet Lyn and Ebrima + their app idea 9:07 Build phase starts 12:07 Progress check ins 17:14 Late stage check ins 22:01 Team Healthy Or Else app demo 25:40 Team Jamz app demo 29:34 Team eLiterate app demo 33:35 Reflections on the challenge 35:21 Outtakes and credits