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Building AI Apps with Databutton Link: https://databutton.com/ In this video, I'll walk you through how to use Databutton, a platform that allows you to build and deploy real applications using natural language. I'll demonstrate creating a directory of AI tools for developers, configuring authentication, database, and UI elements using Supabase and exploring newly added features like AI-generated previews and app flow diagrams. You'll learn how to customize, preview, and deploy applications efficiently. Join me as I showcase the powerful capabilities of Databutton in building and deploying applications swiftly and effectively. 00:00 Introduction to Databutton 00:07 Getting Started with Databutton 00:13 Setting Up Your Project 00:44 Adding Authentication and Database 01:31 AI Agent Capabilities 02:04 Creating the Tech Brutalist Landing Page 02:42 Preview and Edit Your Application 05:47 Deploying Your Application 06:43 Managing Authentication 08:20 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
--- type: transcript date: 2025-03-05 youtube_id: wcbhU1JL-Uw --- # Transcript: Databutton Powered by Sonnet 3.7: Launch Your AI-Powered App Idea in Minutes in this video I'm going to be showing you data button which is a platform that allows you to build as well as deploy real apps with natural language so to get started on the platform it is super straightforward you will be able to make a free account to try all of this out what I'm going to say I want to build out a directory that's specifically about AI tools that are geared towards developers once I have that I'm going to go to continue and for the requirements now this is going to be where you put in anything like documentation user stories requirements quotes all of that information you can just drag and drop within here now it is also optional so I'm going to skip that step and then for any design inspiration that you have you can include them here here I included a few different screenshots of some websites that I thought had a good overall design next the great thing with data button is it makes it really easy to add in authentication database payments as well as storage you have the option to choose between Firebase as well as superbase for payment stripe and lemon squeezy and then for storage there's Firebase superbase aw as well as gcp storage I'm going to be leveraging superbase o as well as the superbase database for our application since we're not going to be using payments or any object storage in this video as soon as you go through those initial steps to create your application you'll have a screen that looks just like this within here the AI under the hood generated this to-do list for us and you can click in within here you can see the title as well as the description that will ultimately get sent to the AI agent you do have the ability to edit all of this and to kick off the task you can go ahead and click click Start task here before I kick this off I just want to first show you the list of different tools that are available within the agent if I say can you tell me about all of the different tools and how you can trigger them with prompts just to quickly touch on what the agent is capable of it can read and write files it can update code install packages test read logs it can list the different storage that you have as well as access the context of this list here finally it does also have the ability to research if it does need to search the internet for particular things it can do that and then finally it can also deploy your application now what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and kick off the task to create the tech brutalus landing page for Dev tool AI the tech brutalist theme that's going to be one of the Design Concepts that it pulled from those screenshots of those different websites that I provided with what we'll see on the right hand side is we'll see the agent work through the different steps here we see that it can read the files it can write the code and what this will do is it will just go through a loop of thinking through the different steps of what it needs to do to accomplish this broader overarching task and once it's determined that it has met that goal of that task it will present that solution to us so now if I click to the preview tab we'll be able to see what it generated for us here's the initial implementation of our homepage here if I just scroll down and take a quick look at what it generated for us within here we can also preview it on tablet mobile and you can also open up the preview in a new tab if you click on over to overview what you'll see is this top flow diagram now where this is helpful is to really have alignment on what the agent is actually creating because sometimes when the agent just goes off and you see it running and performing in the loop sometimes not having that visibility can be difficult but with this it gives you a really clear visualization on how different UI components relate to one another which Pages share different components as well as you begin to build out the back end you'll likewise be able to see all of your different apis and authentication and how different things relate to one another within here overall it's a really helpful visualization just to give you an idea on what the agent is actually doing another new feature that they just added was this ability to send preview to agent so if I click this and I take an overall look at our homepage here I notice that at the bottom here there are some particular sections that don't look too great here I see that the text isn't too visible I'm going to highlight that area save it out now we have that context within the pane here and what I'll say is I notice within the section that some of the text is invisible let's make sure that the text is white especially when over dark backgrounds now that I went through I'll open up our application here and I'll just scroll down to that particular section and now I see that it resolved that error that can be really helpful especially when building out the UI portion of applications is being able to send in that context of the particular page and just having that whiteboard that you can draw on to inform the agent that can be easier in a lot of cases than trying to describe the problem because often times the visual representation of whatever the issue is or whatever you're looking to update it can in a lot of times be more helpful than trying to describe it within words I've done this a number of times especially for little UI bugs where something just isn't quite right where if you send in that image to the large language model it will return a better result than just trying to describe it with natural language where that might take a few prompts whereas just sending it directly with the image you'll get to what you want to do faster next as soon as you're happy with the task that you have in progress you can go ahead and Market as done at any point you can go and kick off the next task the next task here is to set up superbase authentication with login and registration now anytime that the agent needs something from you it will go and prompt you in this case it will ask us for the superbase project URL so what you can do is you can head on over to subase and you can make a free account I'm going to go over to the dashboard here to go and create a new project soon as you create a new project if you haven't used superbase before this is what the platform looks like you'll have your database authentication storage if you're using it all within the left hand sidebar there and to connect to the project we can click connect here we can go over to app Frameworks now there's a couple different ways on how you can get this information but all that we'll need is that URL as well as that secret key now it looks like super base should all be set up now what you can do within the platform as well is simply deploy your application with just one click you can go to the deploy button at the top determine what the path you want to have and it will go start the deployment and generally speaking it just takes a few seconds now alternatively if you do want to deploy this to a custom domain you can head on over to settings you can go to production and you can put in your custom domain here and you'll have the configuration instructions that you can walk through and use whatever domain that you'd like now the other thing that I do want to not with the platform is if you do want to access the code at any point you can go ahead click to edit the code and you'll be able to see all of the different components within here here is our page we can go to the login and you can go and edit everything within here just like you would within a typical code editor as well so now that we see that our application is deployed within here we have our login and register button if I go over to the registration page we can add in our name email as well as password now if you are using subase the one thing that I do want to note is within the authentications tab here this is going to be where you see all of the different users of your application but one thing that I do want to note is if you are using email as an auth provider now mind you you can change this to Apple or Google or what ever it might be for your application is if I go into email I'm going to turn off the confirmation email and save that out because right now subase doesn't have the context of where our application is on subase so if you're testing it out on the platform this way it's not going to require impromptu to authenticate through an email which it otherwise would have done now mind you once you deploy this application to production and you are using subase you can just go over to your url configuration and you can update your site URL where you will be able to use the email authentication signup process like you typically see on other sites now that I'm happy with that stage I'll go ahead and I'll mark that complete and you can just begin to work through the to-do list of whatever you have within your application now that I have authentication set up just to show you what that looks like within the app flow diagram if I click on over to the login page you'll see that we have this UI component and a similar thing for the register component as you start to build out your application and there's a number of different pages this goes without saying it will be helpful to have that birs I view on what everything's doing also at any point what you can do is if you click the three buttons of a component you can actually view the component or alternatively you can explain the flow if I click the explain flow button what it will do is it will send a message into the agent for us and it will go and look through your application and give you a description of whatever it's doing overall that's pretty much it for this video hopefully you see how you can leverage a data button to build out whatever you'd like data button is probably one of the more advanced AI coders out there when building and deploying real apps whether you're a developer or not just having access to all of these different tools and capabilities within one platform you'll be able to build basically whatever you have in mind and let me know what your thoughts are as well as what you're interested in building with data button within the comments below
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