Pick a depth. Each prompt opens in your AI pre-loaded with the lesson. Click a row to preview the prompt.
The first prompt sets the shape of everything that follows, and a vague first prompt produces a vague app that takes ten rounds of fixing. A strong first build prompt does three specific jobs: it names who the app is for, what job it does for them, and what screens or sections exist. Miss any one of these and the AI guesses, usually wrong. Learning to write this one paragraph well is the highest-leverage skill in the course because it is the difference between a usable first draft you refine and a mess you fight. You will reuse this exact template for every app you ever build.
The template is three sentences: WHO it is for, WHAT it does, WHAT screens exist. Watch a weak prompt become a strong one. Weak: 'Make me a habit tracker.' The AI has to guess everything — how many habits, daily or weekly, does it save, what does it look like — and you will spend the next hour correcting guesses. Now the strong version, written out in full: 'Build a daily habit tracker for one person to use on their phone. Each day they see a list of their habits (like Drink water, Read 20 minutes, Walk) and tap a checkbox to mark each one done for today; checked habits turn green. Let them add a new habit with a plus button and delete one by swiping or a trash icon. At the top, show today's date and how many habits are done out of the total, like 2 of 5. Keep it to one clean screen, calm colors, large tap targets for phone use.' Notice it names the user (one person, on their phone), the job (check off daily habits, add and remove them), and the screen (a list with checkboxes, a header with the date and a done-count). Paste that into Lovable and in under a minute you get a working tracker where tapping a habit turns it green and the counter updates. Two other worked examples you can adapt: a LINK-IN-BIO — 'Build a personal link page for a photographer. Show my name and a round profile photo at the top, a one-line bio, then a vertical stack of large tappable buttons linking to my Instagram, my portfolio, and my email. Dark background, white text, centered, works on a phone.' A TIP CALCULATOR — reuse the one from lesson 1. Every one follows WHO / WHAT / SCREENS.