What's going on, it's Jonathan.

Before you ask AI to build an app, answer one question:

Whose recurring problem are you trying to solve?

Get specific. A freelance designer collecting client feedback is a clearer starting point than an app for every business owner.

Now find someone who actually does that job and ask these five questions.

Ask them to walk through a recent example. You want the actual steps, including the awkward ones.

A spreadsheet? Email threads? Copying notes between tools? Look at the current workaround before suggesting a replacement.

Find the part that causes confusion, repeated work, or missed information. Let them describe it in their own words.

A problem that shows up every project deserves a different conversation from something that happened once.

Ask what it would need to do, what they would hesitate about, and whether they would test a rough version.

Write down the answers before opening your builder.

Then finish this sentence: This tool helps [specific person] complete [specific task] with [clear improvement].

If that sentence is still vague, keep talking to people.

MakerAI includes AI-assisted market validation and step-by-step Lovable build prompts. Use that analysis to develop your idea, then check the assumptions with potential users. An AI score doesn't establish that someone will buy.

Your next move: one conversation, one recurring problem, one clear sentence.

Let's build. 🦁

Jonathan

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