What are We Doing?
We’re going to look at a plaything I built in just a handful of hours while digging into agentic AI a bit just for fun. (Well, for career-related things as well, but mostly for fun.) The toy is an AI enabled Digital Product Manager assistant app where you can ask questions about product management. Which, as it turns out, could actually be a real product. I built it as a toy project for fun, but might actually soft launch this thing. Because, why not? Can you just do this with any GPT? Sure. But this one is tuned specifically to product management in general and digital product management in particular. (There are others like it though, so maybe just leave it as a personal tool. We’ll see.)
Why do this? Why bother. And why do you care? Since the vibe coding thing is so very in right now, (maybe for another few months), I figured it was time to jump in a bit. While I’ve built some agent workflows in the past and built a variety of apps, it’s usually been team based. This is one of those, “Hey, if I can do this… anyone can” type posts. The question, of course, is do you have a reason / use case? But the whole argument that used to exist about some things being “too hard” or “too technical” or “too much time” are fading away with some of these tools. Not completely. And some things absolutely – my opinion – require “real” developers. But others? Lower risk things? Personal productivity things? Not as much anymore. So I’m going to go through my process just at a super high level. My goal is to convince other product manager types to dive into this area more deeply than just watching a webinar and learning some of the lingo. Even for senior roles and beyond individual contributor roles, I personally think it’s useful to get a visceral feel for how things work. Doing so helps offer better context for what teams might be going through as well as understanding in what might be possible. And also, getting a sense of what budget implications might be if you’ve got P&L responsibility for a product.
Next we’ll get into the details, but if you want to see the end result, it’s here: (But note, the functionality won’t work as I’ve got the public webhooks turned off so as not to burn up my paid quotas on the services in use. To see it working, check the Loom Demo.)
Direct Link to the App Test Website
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