Manifest AI

Achieve Your Dreams with AI-Guided Manifestation. Use 15+ manifestation methods & custom affirmations to attract love, success, and abundance. Transform your life today!

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Inspiration

I've made several apps that have not succeeded to the degree I would have hoped. For example, I'm proud of my app Max Workout. I created it for very personal reasons, but fitness is a tough niche to crack.

So, I was looking for something that might find more of a market.

If you are a book author, there's a concept called "writing to market." You can write the book in your heart, which I've done, or you can write a book with a well-developed customer base and marketing channel. That's called writing to market.

A book about talking kangaroos vagabonding through Paris may not sell as well as a cozy romance.

I think software is similar.

Of course, your book must be well-written, but if there's no market for it, you won't move books.

Your app must also be good, but writing an app without an audience can be depressing. We all know how hard writing a good app is, and doing it for no results gets old.

So, one day, I read about how many views manifestation posts on TikTok were getting. It was millions and millions. Ding! Inspiration.

Why not create a manifestation app?

I did a lot of research and found it was a relatively open market. I remembered best-selling books like The Secret, which terraformed the zeitgeist for years.

A big ready-made market—a good start.

I was also looking for an opportunity to incorporate AI into an app.

Why not a manifestation app that uses AI to coach people through the manifestation process?

I made some prototypes and found it could work.

And how hard could it be?

Famous last words. It's hard. Building anything with quality that does a good job is hard work and takes much longer than expected.

But now it's ready, and I'm proud of how it turned out. Will other people like it, too? I guess we'll see :-)

What it does

Manifest AI helps you change your life and get what you want through manifestation.

The key features:

  • AI Genie: Your 24/7 manifestation companion. Craft personalized manifestations alongside our AI Genie, designed to deeply connect with your subconscious. It’s like speaking directly to the Universe.
  • 15+ Powerful Manifestation Methods: Whether it’s love, health, wealth, or success, our methods, including Tesla’s 369 technique, are here to help you manifest your desires.
  • Daily Practices: Cultivate positivity with tools like the Gratitude Journal, Manifestation List, Scripting Journal, and Abraham Hicks Placemat Process.
  • Daily Affirmations: Stay inspired with customizable, beautiful affirmation widgets.
  • Guided Meditations: Find peace and clarity with expertly guided meditation sessions.

How we built it

Xcode, Google, coffee, and a little ChatGPT.

I like the irony of an app using AI being built with AI. Though it was just a few functions, when I needed to use it, AI was very helpful.

I did use AI a lot for all the marketing materials. As a one-person shop, content generation takes an immense amount of resources, so it's nice to have some help.

Challenges we ran into

Knowing little about manifestation and the general feeling that it's all woo-woo gobbledygook. The former was easily solved, but the latter problem took more reflection.

I did come to understand that, in practice, manifestation works. There's a deep psychology underlying the whole process. It's essentially reprogramming your brain to achieve your goals, and who can't get behind that?

I am entirely agnostic in the app. I support the Secret and psychological approaches to manifestation because people think differently, and that's OK. It's also a lot more fun!

I've done a lot of bot programming with Facebook, Slack, etc., so that part of the app wasn't difficult. Using the AI APIs was just your typical programming stuff.

Getting the prompts right took iteration, but was fun. It's an entirely new way of working. Typical bots are incredibly dull and predictable by necessity. It's all state machines and pattern matching. AI really opens up possibilities for a more dynamic and exciting future.

The challenge was how to do it economically. I put limits and some monitoring as a solution, but that part still worries me. I investigated training my own models on providing the service on my own servers, but time-to-market won me over.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

All the little things nobody ever sees in an app that take forever to get right, but just make the app work how it always should have. It's both frustrating to work through and very satisfying when finished.

What we learned

  • RevenueCat's new paywall service is a godsend. That's not even sucking up. I spent so long on the paywall on my previous app. And forget about even thinking about doing A/B testing with different options. It's painless with this service.
  • SwiftUI continues to giveth and taketh away. SwiftData needs a lot more work to be really useful. Its support for private databases only is criminal. Apple, get on that, please. But you can't beat the cost, and keeping an app's cost structure low is the name of the game.
  • RevenueCat should provide a push notification delivery service. Most apps could use it, and it would integrate nicely with their offerings.
  • A lot goes into apps these days, and the burden of making even a simple app only grows over time. There's so much that must be supported beyond the core functionality.

What's next for Manifest AI

Bringing about its own success in a powerful loop of circular logic.

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