Reader! I've been building custom software solutions with Glide for almost four years. If you're new to my newsletter and unfamiliar with Glide, let me quickly explain. Glide is a tool that allows anyone to build apps very quickly without needing to know how to code. It is now used by tens of thousands of developers and businesses worldwide, with over 1 million apps deployed. Glide is optimized for creating business-oriented apps. Some typical apps that can be quickly built with Glide include...
4 months ago • 1 min read
Reader! I keep testing the limits of Glide + generative AI. It turns out, ChatGPT can generate pretty good multiple-choice quizzes on almost any subject matter you can think of. Not only that, you can upload a PDF or link to an online article and it can quiz you on it too. The challenge was to encapsulate that functionality on a proper app using Glide. After several days tinkering with the logic, I'm happy to announce I managed to get it all working. I'm calling this new Glide template...
6 months ago • 1 min read
Reader! Another week, another Glide template! Glide is a great tool to build apps to manage teams and workflows. A very common request I get is to build apps to assign specific checklists to workers. This is a typical requirement for property management/inspection companies where crews have to complete a specific set of tasks every time they visit a location. Well, now you can streamline your cleaning or inspection processes with my new checklists Glide app template. This template allows you...
7 months ago • 1 min read
Reader! Another week, another Glide template that leverages AI to do cool things... CardAI is a fully-customizable Glide template that uses AI to extract contact details from business cards. This is a great template to learn how to leverage AI to analyze and extract data from images using artificial intelligence. You can use the same logic used in this template to extract data from recipes or any other image or photo containing readable text. Welcome to the no-code AI revolution! Check out...
7 months ago • 1 min read
Reader! Last week, I showed you how you can use Glide + OpenAI to extract data from a PDF and generate online forms automatically. This week, I used a similar technique to analyze resumes to help automate candidate selection. As usual, I created a Glide template that showcases this cool functionality... RecruitAI is an AI-Powered applicant tracker template made with Glide that uses OpenAI to help select the best candidates for a given position. The template comes ready many cool features:...
8 months ago • 1 min read
Reader! I keep finding new uses for AI + Glide. My latest tests demonstrate that it's possible to get OpenAI to extract forms from PDFs and use Glide to convert the PDF into online forms automagically! As usual, I created a Glide template that showcases this cool functionality... Formify is a Glide template that uses AI to convert any PDF form into an online form or generate forms by simply describing the form with a bit of text. The template allows users to modify the generated forms...
8 months ago • 1 min read
Reader! I'm sure by now many of you are familiar with ChatGPT. You may also know that Glide can integrate with ChatGPT via its OpenAI integration. But did you know you can also create your own AI chatbot using that integration? Yes, you can! Why would you want to create your own ChatGPT chatbot? The main reason is adding a custom AI assistant to your Glide app. With Glide, you can program your chatbot to provide assistance on any specific topic by tweaking your chatbot's main prompt. For...
8 months ago • 1 min read
Reader! Creating estimates is one of those tedious tasks that are part of most businesses. This is usually done manually by filling in a spreadsheet or using an ugly online form that calculates the total estimate. How cool would it be to have an app that could generate estimates automatically? Imagine your prospect clicks on the app, and after a series of questions, they get a personalized estimate. Well, I just built exactly that app... Quoter is a fully customizable quote generation app...
8 months ago • 1 min read
Reader! As OpenAI releases new updates to their AI language model, Glide's OpenAI integration keeps getting better. Originally, in order to use OpenAI with Glide you had to get your own OpenAI API key, but now, Glide comes with OpenAI integrated right out of the box (on Maker Plan and above) The number of cool things you can do with this integration seem endless. In particular, their new "Generate Text" AI feature makes it super easy perform very advanced data manipulations. For instance, in...
9 months ago • 1 min read