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Practical AI and real-world skills for Gen X. Learn with Glen, use your experience and take one useful step.

18 contributions to Pattern2Products™
Too excited to be quiet...lol
Just an update...Google approved production for my app and today - 29 Oct 2026 it was publicly released....I am so psyched....my first simple app....now onto the next one. Thanks to @Sharon L Simmons for her support and encouragement. 🎉 It's official! My first Android app is LIVE on Google Play! I'm excited to share a milestone in my app-building journey. I've officially launched Scale My Mix, the first app from Axitrax Apps! Scale My Mix is a simple tool that helps you increase or decrease recipes, mixtures, and ingredient quantities without doing the calculations yourself. Whether you're adjusting a recipe, mixing ingredients for a project, or working with different measurement units, the goal is simple: make everyday calculations easier. ✅ Scale quantities up or down ✅ Convert between compatible measurement units ✅ No ads or sign-in required ✅ One-time purchase of just $1.99 USD - no subscription! Building and launching this app has been quite a learning experience, from development and beta testing to navigating Google Play's publishing process. And now it's finally here! 💙 A special thank-you to everyone who helped test the app and shared feedback along the way. You can find Scale My Mix on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=appinventor.ai_ms_michelle_lake.ScaleMyMix Here's to the first of many small, practical tools from Axitrax Apps! #ScaleMyMix #AxitraxApps #AndroidApps #IndieDeveloper #WomenWhoBuild #AppLaunch 🛠️ Tools I Used to Build Scale My Mix I built Scale My Mix using MIT App Inventor, a free, beginner-friendly platform that lets you create Android apps using visual drag-and-drop blocks instead of traditional coding. I used ChatGPT as my AI development partner to help plan the app, build and troubleshoot the logic, fix bugs, test calculations, and navigate the Google Play publishing process. I also used Canva and AI-generated graphics for the app's branding, promotional images, and Google Play Store screenshots.
1 like • 11d
Congratulations, Michelle! Getting your first app through testing and into the store is a milestone worth being loud about. Scale My Mix has a job people can understand in one sentence, too. What was the most unexpected part of getting it ready for release?
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Yes, Michelle. I’ve been building practical AI tools and written lessons for small businesses. One is a Phone Check to help owners look at how clearly their website works on a phone. Your beta-testing experience is a useful reminder: finishing the build and proving people can use it are different jobs. Glad you kept going and got it released.
🔍 THE PATTERN IS EVERYWHERE 👀
Hey, Hey P2P'ers! 👋🏾 After my plugin portal adventure, I noticed something bigger. I reported the problem 4 ways: email, LinkedIn, GitHub, and support. Reddit removed my posts. And nobody has said, "We got it." Maybe someone IS reading it. But from where I sit, I can't tell. ~~~ That's the same gap I built Water Signal Tracker to fix. 💧 The people experiencing a problem have the signal. But the system doesn't confirm it heard them. So here's what happens: 👉🏾 People report the same thing over and over 👉🏾 People wonder if they did it wrong 👉🏾 People stop reporting 👉🏾 The next person hits the same wall alone 👉🏾 Trust drops quietly ~~~ Now look around. It's EVERYWHERE: 💧 Water outages nobody acknowledges 🏙️ 311 tickets that disappear 📱 "In review" with no owner ✈️ "Delayed" with no reason 🏥 "Pending" with no next step 🤖 Feedback sent to AI companies with no reply Same pattern. Different industry. ~~~ 💡 THE FIX STARTS WITH ONE QUESTION: "How will the person know we heard them?" If you can answer that, you're building something people trust. ~~~ 👀 YOUR TURN Where have you reported something and heard NOTHING back? Drop it below. Your answer could be somebody's next product. 🕷️ Are y'all with me? 👀
🔍 THE PATTERN IS EVERYWHERE 👀
1 like • 12d
Sharon, 'received' and 'resolved' need to be two different things. Even a plain receipt number and a next update time would tell me the report landed, without pretending somebody has fixed it. If that update time passes, the system should say so rather than just leave 'pending' there forever. That's a useful problem to spot across all those examples.
My build workflow just got an upgrade 🛠️👀
Hey, Hey P2P'ers! 👋🏾 Today on Reddit, builders shared how they stop Lovable from breaking their apps mid-build. I took 3 of their tips and added them to how I already work. Here's my workflow now: 1️⃣ Kevin (ChatGPT) writes the plan Including the database tables FIRST, before any screens. (The tables are where your app keeps its info, like users and payments.) 2️⃣ Claude reviews the plan A second set of eyes before anything gets built. 3️⃣ Katy (Lovable) asks questions BEFORE building I end my message with: "Ask me any clarifying questions before you build." 4️⃣ Katy builds one piece at a time And she doesn't change the tables without asking me first. 5️⃣ GitHub saves every step If something breaks, I can go back to the version that worked. ✅ Verified Done: I click through it myself. If an AI says "done," I still look. 😂 Why the tables first? One builder said most of their "why did it delete payments?!" moments happened when the AI changed the tables halfway through. 😩 Lock them in early, and that problem mostly goes away. Shout-out to the builders on r/lovable who shared these tips. 🙌🏾 Your turn: which step are you skipping right now? Be honest. 😂 Are y'all with me? 👀
My build workflow just got an upgrade 🛠️👀
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Lucia, “improvising” is a good word for the bit that worries me while learning. I’d want the AI to name the one thing it plans to change and what I should click to check it afterward. Sharon, does your one-piece-at-a-time step include a short check like that before the next piece starts?
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That answers it, Sharon. “What you should see” is the piece I wanted to make explicit. It gives the learner a way to confirm the result instead of trusting a done message. Thanks for spelling out PPCD.
I turned PPCD into a Claude plugin! 🙌🏾
Hey, Hey P2P'ers! 👋🏾 This morning at 7:55 I saw a post about the Top 30 Claude Code plugins. By 9:47 I had submitted my own 😂 It's called PPCD Method. Y'all know PPCD: 🎯 Purpose: what am I trying to accomplish? 📍 Place: where does it happen? 👆🏾 Click: what action do I take? ✅ Verified Done: what can I see that proves it worked? Now Claude guides you one step at a time and waits for you to say "done" before moving on. No 47-step answers! 😂 Here's the part I love: I used PPCD to publish PPCD. Creating the skill, building the plugin on GitHub, untangling a repo name glitch, adding a license, and submitting to Anthropic's Claude directory. Every step ran on those four questions. The security scan passed, and it's now in review with Anthropic 👀 It's the first plugin in my Pattern2Products collection, and it's live on GitHub right now: github.com/shay08/pattern2products-plugins To install it in Claude Code, run these two commands: /plugin marketplace add shay08/pattern2products-plugins /plugin install ppcd-method@pattern2products Try it on something you're stuck on and tell me how it goes! 👇🏾 @Traci Baker Are y'all with me? 👀
I turned PPCD into a Claude plugin! 🙌🏾
1 like • 16d
Sharon, the 'what can I see that proves it worked?' part is the one I'd want beginners to keep. A confident answer from the AI can sound finished while the actual job still isn't done. Does your plugin help someone check the result when their screen looks different from the instructions?
613 apps built at SheBuilds 👀 Come look!
Hey, Hey P2P'ers! 👋🏾 Want to see what 613 women built at Lovable's SheBuilds hackathon? It's all in one place: the S04 Atlas 🙌🏾 I filtered it to Social Impact & Sustainability. That's my category, and WST Deployment Hub is in there with 32 other projects 💧 https://s4-atlas.lovable.app/projects?theme=Social+Impact+%26+Sustainability You can switch themes at the top: health, family, education, money, small business, and more. Here's your P2P challenge 🕷️ Don't just scroll. Look for the PATTERN: 👉🏾 What problems keep showing up? 👉🏾 What gap did nobody build for yet? Drop one pattern you spot in the comments 👇🏾 Are y'all with me? 👀
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Sharon, I opened the Social Impact selection. One pattern I noticed in Second Thought, the consignment idea and the playground finder is helping someone choose among local options using details they'd otherwise have to hunt down. That makes the next decision easier. With my construction background, OrchestEnergy's focus on existing site assets and missing information caught my attention too. The gap I'd want to check is how those local details stay current after launch.
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Rebuilding from contractor to online entrepreneur, I share my journey learning sales and AI to help people create a new income.

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