Productivity · Tabnews · 🇧🇷 Brazil
Asking AI to build a personal mini-app on your iPhone
A former product person built CriAI, which generates mini-apps from a description.
- Profession
- Product Manager
- Tools
- IA generativa
- Source
- tabnews.com.br ↗
- Country
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Report date
- October 4, 2026
- Verified on
- October 24, 2026
What they did
Created an app where users describe what they want and get a mini-app.
How it went
After changing the classification, the "Other" category dropped from 78% to 1.4% of apps, at no extra cost.
Good to know
Generated apps run locally, which helps with privacy.
The prompt
Create a [function] mini-app in a single HTML file, with a [colors] theme, that saves data only on the device (localStorage).
Replace what is in [brackets]. Prompt written by us from the account, not a literal copy of the source. Do not paste other people’s personal data (privacy laws such as LGPD and GDPR apply).
Summary in our own words. Results as stated in the original account; we have not tested or audited them. Read the source ↗ Found a mistake?
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