Are you still managing team holidays with endless Excel sheets?
After jumping from one meeting to the next with barely a moment to breathe and code, I recently felt that familiar frustration:
I miss building things. I had ideas in my head, but no time to get my hands dirty and code.
Last weekend, inspired by Alexey's recent Substack on experimenting with AI tools, I finally took a break from the chaos and decided to create something again.
The Result
👉 A full-stack Holiday Planning App.
Not a simple static page — a real app with structure and logic.
Under the hood:
✅ Supabase Postgres Database
✅ Secure Authentication (Admins invite users)
✅ Different UI + permissions for each role
✅ No more static spreadsheets for each year
✅ Integrated school holidays and German national holiday
🧪 Tools I Tested
ChatGPT for better prompts
I uploaded a final design photo of the app and used ChatGPT to refine my prompts.
💙 Lovable
I entered the prompts to create a beautiful UI and design web. Much cleaner output than Cursor.
💻 Cursor
Ran into repeated bugs — I tried fixing them 6–7 times — but it struggled with the complexity.
🚀 Google Antigravity (Gemini 3 Pro)
Solved the bug on the first attempt.
Great error explanations + step-by-step implementation help.
This was the strongest overall experience.
🔧 ✨ My Takeaway
AI is an incredible creative accelerator if you actually use it.
Don't overthink — just test, build, break things, and try again. I often hear people say they want to "develop themselves in AI," yet take no action.
For anyone curious about AI development:
Start experimenting. It's the fastest way to learn.
This is part of my "100 Days as Head of Data and Cloud" series. Follow along as I share insights, challenges, and learnings from this new leadership role.
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