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So you want to create your own iPhone app, stick it on the App Store, make a million dollars, and retire to Maui? Well, how about if I just help you with the first part, and we see how it goes?
After all, creating a hugely successful app takes a lot more than just coding. It involves infrastructure, marketing, vision, capitalization, team composition, and just plain luck. All of that's on you.
But in this article, I'll show you how to use an AI to generate your very first, very, very basic iPhone app. We're going to do it step by step, screenshot by screenshot, so all you have to do is follow along.
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