Sunday 16 August 2026

The day

A hands‑on day building a personal meal‑planning app alongside an AI agent in Cursor. Everyone set up, shipped a live URL, shaped the app around their own sketches and data, then added three AI features: a chat assistant that plans the week, a hands‑free voice cooking helper, and generated recipe artwork.

1. Before you start Laptop, accounts, and the mindset for working with an agent.
2. Set up & ship Cursor settings and modes, run the starter locally, deploy to Cloudflare and share the link.
3. Shape the app Plan the data in Notion, sketch screens on paper, voice‑prompt the UI, then theme it with a design system and Storybook.
4. Add the AI Prototype each feature first, then add chat, voice and recipe artwork, and redeploy.
5. The craft Fresh agents, picking a model, reading the plan, rolling back safely, GitHub, and keeping API costs low.
6. The stack Plain‑English notes on React, Tailwind, TypeScript, Vite, TinyBase, Storybook and testing.
7. After the workshop Keep building: custom domains, going private, 14 small prototypes, and the community.

The full material lives in the Cookbook.