Company
Buzzy
Product
Business problem
Creating an application requires a specific expertise and time even if an app is built from blocks using builder services.
Solution
Generation of web or mobile application from a text description using ChatGPT
Alternative solution
Hire a team (a designer, frontend and backend developers and manager) to develop your application.
Competitors
ChatGPT
Similarities:
AI generates source code from text prompt
Differences:
Requires a developer and prompt engineer to form an app from ChatGPT responses.
No integration with Figma to modify interfaces.
AppSheet
Similarities:
No coding is required to build an app.
Differences:
Doesn’t utilize AI to produce an app.
Uses relational data, templates and blocks builder to create an app.Supports no-code automation workflows.
Delivery model
SaaS
History
2014: Founded. Initial focus was on building an app from Figma design.
Late 2022: Shifted its focus to use generative AI to build an app using text description instead of Figma design.
May 2023: First usage of AI released.
June 2023: Wizard mode in AI released.
Metrics
9 employees registered on LinkedIn.
GitHub repositories are not updated for years. With the only exception updated 9 months ago.
Deep dive
Customer problems
As a product manager, it’s challenging to get a quick feedback for product idea because creating MVP requires specific expertise and takes time.
As a product manager, it’s important to apply user feedback in MVP to develop product ideas further.
As a development team, it’s valuable to skip implementing boilerplate functionality (e.g. authentication, CRUD operations, user management) that is required for all applications.
Internal problems
As Buzzy product manager, it’s challenging to balance between easy to use platform and an ability to customize an application because both requires diving into different levels of speciality (product manager vs. software engineer vs. designer).
Inputs
What are the important inputs to the system?
Description of application functionality
Outputs
What are the important outputs from the system?
Deployed application
Controls
What are the important things the user controls to affect how the inputs turn into the outputs?
Customization of the following elements:
UI components via integration with Figma
Data models
User management
Core Functions
Logical steps to get from inputs to outputs
Generate an application
Create sources for an application and provision it for demonstration.Customize.
Provide a set of customizations for the application.