Behind the story: production costs and Little Rabbit
What I learned about image generation costs, style consistency, and prioritization while building a bilingual storybook series with AI.
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Notes from the building process
The prompts that worked, the ones that didn't, and everything I'm learning about building with AI as a product manager and as a mom with very limited free time.
What I learned bringing recipes into Skillet
I wanted every recipe in one place, in one format, for my family - without stepping on the sites they come from.
Shipping to Android as a one-woman show
The Android build was almost a non-event because of a few day-one decisions. Google's Play Console, and its rule that I line up 12 testers before I can publish, were the real work.
Eating with GDM - I have no moat!
I built Eat with GDM to fix my own gestational diabetes logging headaches, then watched Dexcom make it obsolete before I even finished dogfooding it.
The story behind Tiny Tongues
The design process behind building my first iOS app: the product choices that made it easier to build with AI, and the parts AI still couldn't do for me.
Learnings from building PM Intelligence Hub
What I learned building my first real end-to-end AI app - from asking Claude to write a PRD to the humbling reality of pushing something into production.
Hi, I'm Liza, welcome to MamaBuilds
Why a product manager mom who hasn't coded in two decades decided to start building apps with AI, and why she's writing about it in public.
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