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3 Free Prompts to Get an Initial App Build
Use these 3 prompts with ChatGPT and Claude to go from idea to a working app build — no coding experience needed.
1
App Description
Start by getting ChatGPT to craft a concise yet detailed description of your app. This becomes the blueprint that Claude will use to actually build it.
I need a concise yet descriptive description of my app to instruct Claude to build my app. Please take the following details into account: [insert all details]
2
Generate a Project Plan
Take your app description from Prompt 1 and feed it to Claude Opus 4.6 with Extended Thinking enabled. This generates a comprehensive .md project plan — your full roadmap.
Please create a comprehensive project plan into a .md file to build my Swift iOS app [Insert App Name], which I will then take to Claude Code to the planning stage to build. The app is a [Insert full app description - be as detailed as you can be]. I will use Firebase for my database, and Apple In-app Purchasing for payments. Please deploy any backend necessities to vercel using javascript and node.js, with Next.js for UI if needed. Please include all other API services I may need in the project plan. Please ask me every question you think I could possibly answer to give more clarity on what is needed to build the app before proceeding with the .md file.
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Run .md in Claude Code
Take the .md project plan and feed it directly into Claude Code in Plan Mode. Claude will read the plan and start building your app step by step.
**Make sure you are in PLAN MODE Leverage [Insert .md file] to create the plan to build this app. Please ask me anything else you may need to know.