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I sent off a request. It was't quite what I expected, it ended up making a sort of relational database type UI with some tables based on the prompt and some placeholder data entered. I sort of expected it to make a frontend screen where I can add one new "entry" for the prompt but it didnt really do that.

Maybe it would be different with different prompts. It does take a while to generate though so learning what works well would be quite a process

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Hey, thank you for the feedback. Just to add more clarity, currently it is generating simple data management (basic CRUD) - table listing, create/update and delete methods with some additinoal functionality, wrapped in a nice clean UI. It sort of understands/correctly guess (mostly) what columns should be present on listing, how the form should look like (it guess the types of the fields just by their names, etc.), it adds media uploader if relevant and it creates relations between different entities, etc.

So it's basically just a code generator that is much more intelligent then standard code generators are.

It's still in beta, we would like to hear what people think, if it is something worth working on more. We already have like hundreds of ideas, some more visionary than others, but we would love to hear the feedback.

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