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The Error I Encountered

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The post indicates that the community member encountered an error, and the comments discuss the challenges of using an AI-powered site builder tool to create a custom internal web application for a printing service company. The comments suggest that the tool may be better suited for marketing websites, and the community members discuss using alternative tools like Figma and React. One comment notes a bug in the site builder tool that causes issues when the homepage is not set to "home". There is no explicitly marked answer in the post and comments.

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would you mind sharing your prompt?

create simple inventory management system for printing service company. its an internal website only for 3 employees. first page should just directly login page

i just tried it now and same error

Okay, there's a chance that AI didn't know what to do with this prompt since more of its model is based on marketing websites right now. I just tried it right now myself and it looked like it wanted to do something, but just wasn't sure how.

so it could not do company internal web apps?

that is my understanding - I'm confirming with the team.

I suspect that it likely may never do these things as web apps are usually highly customized, and each one rarely has a given pattern though I suppose an argument could be made that there are at least a few screens that are repeatable across apps. Whereas marketing websites are highly repeatable, for example.

Im trying to somewhat make it work and when i went to wireframe i could not even move or remove elements 😞

right yeah, our site builder tool is pretty new - we've ramped up engineering and we're looking to release quite a few features such as the ones you've mentioned in the coming weeks and months.

Do you use Figma or Webflow at all or just trying to use the Site Builder as a design tool without those tools?

im trying to minimize using different tools and as much as possible 1 tool is enough. but I know you could export the design and edit from there right?

yeah, you might be better off with Figma for this one. This course has massive value and its 100% free. Highly recommended.
https://shiftnudge.com/figma

Something like Untitled UI - which we do have a library for as well but its limited again to mostly marketing components.

How were you planning on actually building this internal app? If React is on your list we do have a React library in beta as well.

just a note here, I learned that it was your prompt that was causing issues - its a bug we have where if someone prompts that the homepage should be anything other than home, it breaks. No guarantees it would still generate app components though but just wanted to let you know. Its on our list to fix but no ETA.

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