Joao Alves

Engineering Manager at IndeedFlex

Recent posts

Jul 8, 2025
Prompt-Driven Product - Setting Up The Developer Environment In my last article, we transformed the raw app idea into a more detailed plan. With that plan in hand, it was time to build. But to do that, I first needed to properly set up my full developer environment. As mentioned before, I had been using Zapp! as a quick cloud IDE for my tests.
Jul 3, 2025
Prompt-Driven Product - From Idea to Plan In my previous article, we saw how I put Gemini Pro through its paces, essentially "interviewing" it to see if it could be my AI partner for this project. With its capabilities validated (mostly! πŸ˜…), it was time to start the real work...
Jun 24, 2025
Prompt-Driven Product - "Interviewing" Gemini Pro for the Job In the first article, I laid out the goal for this series: building an entire cross-platform app with AI generating most of the code. Before diving into it though, there was a critical step. I needed to know if Gemini Pro was up to the task.
Jun 17, 2025
Prompt-Driven Product - An Experimental Journey It's been a while since my last #buildinpublic series, so it's time for a new adventure! It all starts with a simple question: What if you could build a fully functional, cross-platform app, end-to-end, with an AI writing most of the code?
Apr 10, 2025
Lacking confidence at work? Run a marathon! πŸƒ This post is not me bragging about having ran a marathon. OK, maybe a little πŸ˜… But really, it’s about something unexpected I got from the process...