In this solo episode, I’m testing Grok Bot to see if it can build a sellable product for me without any coding knowledge. I give it one prompt to create a Mac app and Chrome extension that blocks distracting websites and apps during specific hours. In just over 31 minutes, it builds a working version, connects with Replit and GitHub, tests everything, and fixes the bugs. I also add a few extra features and show exactly how the finished productivity tool works. Next up, I’m going to try to sell it in part two.
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The speaker demonstrates the power of Grokbot, an agentic AI tool, by building a functional software product from scratch without any coding knowledge. By using a detailed prompt generated by Claude, the speaker successfully creates \"Morning Lock,\" a productivity tool consisting of a Mac menu bar app and a Chrome extension designed to force timeboxing by blocking email and distracting websites.
It's already done, what the crap?
Oh my gosh, it works.
That's crazy.
Okay, that was very easy.
Oh, geez.
It's an AI tool that goes out
and actually does stuff for you
and not just returns answers to you.
We have a sellable product here.
That was one prompt.
It just built this for me.
Freaking incredible.
Now I need to sell it.
Everyone's talking about AI agents
and lately they have all been talking about Grokbot,
which is the tool built on Grok,
which is like ChadGBT and Claude,
that will go out and do stuff for you.
So today I'm gonna find out,
is the hype real, is it not?
Can I build and code a sellable software product
without any coding knowledge in less than an hour?
I wanna build a Chrome extension and an app,
a Mac app specifically, for something that I need solved.
I've never touched Grokbot in my life.
Today we're gonna see if we can do it
and I'm gonna share my screen
and show you exactly how to do it too,
because let's get real.
None of us really know how to code.
Let's dive in.
Okay, so I just got out of the massage
and during the massage I of course didn't have my phone,
so I of course was able to think
and I was thinking about Grokbot, believe it or not.
And I was wondering what it could do.
I've never used Grokbot before.
This is not sponsored by Grokbot,
this is just me wanting to try the new AI thing.
So Grokbot is an agentic AI tool.
In other words, it's an AI tool
that goes out and actually does stuff for you
and not just returns answers to you.
So some of my best videos have been the ones
where I'm out and about doing something,
I get a business idea,
and then instead of just building it,
I build it on screen.
So that's what this is gonna be today.
I'm downloading Grokbot for the first time ever.
Here's the business idea that I had.
I wanna build a product that does not exist.
I wanna build it for myself
because I think this will help me be more productive.
But I think I could also sell it.
I could sell access to it.
I think other people would find it productive.
So you've maybe heard of the concept of timeboxing, right?
A lot of successful people timebox.
They literally go to their calendar and say,
7 a.m. to 8 a.m. meditation, 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. emails,
9 a.m. to, they schedule and plan out their entire day
so they're more productive.
Not my thing.
But it's hard for me to be accountable
to a calendar event that no other human is a part of, right?
Whereas if I put money into something,
I will be accountable to it.
I will do that thing.
But that's not what this idea is.
My idea is to lock me out of my inbox
for the majority of the day
so I have to get caught up on my emails
in a specific timeframe.
So it's like forced timeboxing, right?
As opposed to like, well, I put it in my calendar
so now I'm gonna do it.
No, you won't.
I won't.
You won't.
So originally, this was going to be an app
that locked everything on my computer
except for my mail app or gmail.com.
That way, while working, during the workday,
I was forced to get caught up on my emails during that time.
I couldn't get distracted, browse Twitter, whatever.
But I don't really like that.
So instead, I'm gonna do the opposite.
And I'm going to lock down gmail.com and my mail app
for 90 plus percent of the time, 95 plus percent of the time.
On some days, it will be completely locked
like on the weekend so I don't work.
But during the week, it will be unlocked,
it will be usable until like 10 a.m.
That way, I will feel pressure to get caught up
on all my emails because that's something
that I struggle to do.
That way, I have to finish my emails until 10
or else I won't get another shot until the next day.
I think that pressure will force me to be more productive.
And I can use this app for other things,
not just email, but for making sure
that I just do what I need to do on the computer.
Like it will literally block certain websites
or certain apps.
So either I have to stay in there
or I can only use it for a defined period of time.
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if you're enjoying this content
because it takes a lot of work.
Thank you.
So I could vibe code this,
but I want Grokbot to vibe code it for me
because I just had this conversation with Billy
and he's a Grokbot expert and he said he's never tried it.
He's never had Grokbot go in to wrap it for him,
prompt it for him, and then fix it,
test the website, test the software,
look at the code, test it back and forth
because that's the hardest and most tedious part
of vibe coding something is getting it to being perfect
or close enough to perfect to sell the thing
or to use the thing yourself.
So that's what I'm gonna do here.
Okay, I'm installing Grokbot.
Okay, okay.
All right, it wants me to connect a bunch of stuff.
I don't want it to do a bunch of stuff.
Billy said, my friend Billy said
that you want to treat Grokbot like an employee, right?
A good boss, and I'm not saying I'm good to boss
because I'm not very good at doing this.
A good boss does not tell an employee,
do this, now try this, do this, do this, do this, do this,
try this work project, work on that project.
I do that, it's not good.
A good boss says, this is your job.
Just do this, just focus on this.
That's what I'm gonna do here.
So I'm not gonna connect it to any of this stuff.
Okay, now I'm gonna go into Claude
and I want Claude to know what I'm doing.
All right, here's my prompt.
I'm gonna use Grokbot to code an app for me
that I can use myself and eventually sell.
I want to prompt Grokbot to go into my Repl.it account
to build this for me, not just build it,
but build, test, fix, build, test, fix
over and over until it's ready.
The app needs to allow me to open windows
of time where my Mac mail app plus gmail.com
is only accessible from 5 a.m. to 10 a.m.
every day of the week.
Outside of those hours, I cannot visit either gmail
inside my Arc slash Chrome browser
or even open my mail app.
This is intended to force me to get to inbox zero
every morning since this will be my only opportunity.
I can unlock this lock with a password,
but ideally only my wife knows this.
I guess it needs to function like a Mac app
or a Chrome extension or both.
But Grokbot needs to first build a workable version
of this that I can use for myself
and ultimately build a website
and sell this app as a SaaS on this website
using my Stripe ABI and anything else it needs.
Brought a beautiful prompt that is Grokbot friendly
using all the technical coding terms I know nothing about
so I can just build this with as little intervention
from me as possible.
It is okay to approve any and all Repl.it overages
and charges without my approval,
not exceeding $100 a day.
I really don't want to mess with this.
Grokbot needs to keep testing the app for bugs
and asking Repl.it to fix it over and over again.
Okay, pushback from Claude.
The blocker has to live on your Mac.
Yes, Repl.it builds web apps.
A website can never force quit your mail app.
So the real build is a Mac menu bar app
plus a browser extension.
Two things an AI agent physically cannot do for you.
Create your Apple developer account
and your Chrome Web Store dev account.
Budget 20 minutes total for those.
Test the habit first for $0.
It is structured in phases
with an autonomous build test.
Okay, so I don't know what any of this stuff means
but I'm going to try it.
We're going to copy it.
We're going to go back to Grokbot.
Claude named it morning lock.
So we'll just, we'll go with that
even though I don't like it.
Okay, there's the prompt.
Okay, so it's working.
Ask me for anything you need
so I can walk away and be confident
you can work uninterrupted.
Credit card number, logins, et cetera.
Okay, we're going to authorize Stripe.
We're going to go back to Stripe test mode.
Authorize.
Resend.
Okay, that was very easy.
So it's going to do GitHub and Repl.it next.
Okay, I'm not 100% that I'm seeing
what I think I'm seeing,
but it looks like extension test.
That means Chrome extension.
I think it's already building this thing in the background
and it just tested 23 different things
and all of them were green.
So that's kind of wild.
GitHub.
Okay, so it says open that.
Sign that device.
Okay, GitHub is ready.
It's already done.
What the crap?
Is it already done?
They just put the thing in my downloads.
It's right there.
Okay, Mac menu bar app.
Okay, so it just built a Chrome extension.
Okay.
Open Chrome colon slash slash extensions.
Okay, there it is.
Okay, those are all the domains it's going to block.
Okay, there's the accountability password.
Confirm and start.
It already works.
Oh my gosh, guys, I've only been recording this.
You're seeing the edited version,
but it's only been recording for 31 minutes and 37 seconds
and it's done.
And then I can change the settings.
It's locked right now.
Oh yeah, of course it's locked.
Yeah, because it's supposed to be locked.
Oh my gosh, it works.
That's crazy.
But let's say, you know, today is Friday at 4.34 PM.
So we're going to say it should be unlocked on Friday
until 10 PM today.
Save schedule.
Okay.
Now go to Gmail and it works.
Change it back.
Save schedule.
Go back to Gmail and it's locked.
Okay.
That's amazing.
Look, and I have this tweet pulled up right here.
I was going to like live tweet this,
but I didn't have time to hit tweet.
How's the Mac app coming?
You need my Repl.it login?
Glad it's sticking.
Check the Mac app.
Ooh, what if I had Grokbot go into my Repl.it account
and finish?
All of the projects that I have like 90% finished.
Spelled got it wrong, whatever.
All right, we're good.
It's signed into Repl.it.
It's signed into GitHub for me.
GitHub is a place where you can store code.
Okay, it's pizza night.
So I got to step away for a minute.
I'll be right back.
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It's my own private community
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We are finding paying customers,
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We'll see you there.
Guys, I did it.
We did it together.
We have a sellable product here.
It's done.
I want to show you something real quick.
Okay, right here.
Okay, so look what happens.
When I click this little lock icon up here on my Mac,
I think you can see that, this pops up.
And I added some more features off camera
because I couldn't help myself.
And now it does all kinds of other things.
So unlocks my mail.
But then in addition, the Chrome extension right here.
Okay, look at this.
It pulled in my most visited websites.
That was one prompt.
And I can block all of them.
I can block none of them.
I can block all but one.
So, hey, stop looking at YouTube Studio.
And this could be embarrassing, right?
You can see everything I look at here.
There's no editing here.
RV rental websites, whatever.
I can block all of these, none of these,
so I can lock in.
And then I can even send my password to a spouse,
a loved one, whatever.
So they have to be the one to unlock it for me.
So I didn't tell it how to look, what colors to use,
what the user interface should look like.
It just built this for me.
Freaking incredible.
And it works, and I'm using it.
Now I need to sell it.
That's gonna be on part two.
So stick around.
And look, here are my prompts here.
It wasn't that long.
It didn't take that long.
Can you have it list out all the most commonly used apps
and websites on that computer and browse, er,
to make it easier for the user
to block ones they struggle with?
Boom, done.
The icon doesn't work.
Boom, fix, cool.
Everything works.
So, I don't know if this is clear or not,
but this is not a sponsored video for Rockbot.
Nobody paid me to post this video.
I just think this is transformative,
and you can profit from it.
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