This week I spent an afternoon (into the evening) building a little insurance manager app with Replit — something that lets you track and manage your own insurance policies.

Replit is genuinely impressive. Even with zero technical background, you can describe what you want and get a working product out of it. If you want to try it, here’s my referral link: https://replit.com/refer/ijuforever

This was my prompt:

Please create a brand new insurance policy management system with the following complete features:

And it just… built it.

Of course there was a lot of fine-tuning, lots of things to adjust. But the world has gotten genuinely strange in the best way.

Current features:

• Manually enter policy details
• Calculate annual premiums and check whether policies are still active

Things I hope to add after this MVP:

• A basic insurance database so users can look things up easily (tried this today, it’s harder than it looks 😭)
• A login system

If you want to play around with it, feel free to ask me for the link — I really need feedback. 😄

A few other thoughts:

• Getting a product built isn’t hard. Making it commercially viable is another story. I’m doing competitive analysis now and constantly asking myself: what can I actually win at?
• I got stuck three times trying to fix something in Replit, ran to Gemini to debug it, spent forever on it, nearly gave up and started over — then switched to Claude and it worked on the first try. Claude is genuinely excellent at coding.
• Replit annual subscription is $20/month with $25 in credits, but I burned through it fast. Now I’m paying extra. 😭

Still — genuinely fun. Wouldn’t trade it.

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