I Built a Web App in Hours With AI – And I’m Not a Programmer

I just did something I genuinely thought impossible a year ago. This morning I successfully coded a functional web application – a Destiny Matrix calculator – from scratch, with the help of AI (specifically, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro in AI Studio). The shocking part? I am definitely not a programmer.

For context, I’m a bit of a tinkerer, comfortable exploring new tools, but I lack any coding training. I have basic HTML knowledge, but when it comes to logic-heavy JavaScript, I’m completely out of my depth. Yet, over just a few hours, I went from an idea to a fully working app consisting of around 700 lines of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Gemini handled the logic part immediately – it was actually the CSS which took the longest to get right.

Why Build a Destiny Matrix Calculator?

This wasn’t just an exercise in coding. I’ve been delving into Destiny Matrix charts for a few months, a fascinating system for self-understanding. This system keeps blowing my mind. It had no business being this accurate, especially since it doesn’t even use time of birth! However, I noticed that many online calculators use slightly different methods for calculating certain numbers or include different elements in the final chart. Through my own study, I’ve come to prefer a synthesized approach, combining elements from two different calculation styles.

Despite extensive searching, I couldn’t find any calculator that offered my specific combination. I needed a tool that matched my exact methodology, which pushed me to consider building one myself.

I started the project with rock-bottom expectations, assuming I’d hit a wall with the JavaScript required for date calculations and logic. The thought of actually succeeding, let alone making something polished enough to share publicly seemed unlikely.

Yet within a few hours, it worked. Not just partially, but exactly as I had envisioned. Seeing the numbers calculate correctly based on the entered birth date was surprisingly satisfying.

AI, Empowerment, and the Future of Creation

This experience is eye-opening. A year ago, I dismissed AI’s potential, believing it had hit a wall and wouldn’t become as useful as people predicted—at least not in the near future. Boy was I wrong! The “Jarvis for all” reality wasn’t how I imagined 2025 would look. The current state of AI further highlights something I’m exploring in another article: AI’s remarkable gift of self-empowerment, especially for creative non-coders. In my yet-to-be-finished article, I wasn’t even considering the possibility of successfully writing code with AI—I was solely focusing on all the other ways it can assist those of us without technical inclinations.

This project reveals something profound about our current technological moment. Despite having no real coding background, I built a functional, specialized web application with AI assistance. This shift fundamentally changes who can create digital tools and what skills are needed. The barriers between conceiving an idea and implementing it are dissolving, even for those without technical training. You can now take an idea to production on your own with virtually no cost and a significantly lower technical entry barrier.

Check Out the Calculator!

If you’re curious about Destiny Matrix charts or just want to see the results of my AI-assisted coding adventure, you can find the calculator here:

Access the Destiny Matrix Calculator here. Feel free to reach out if you’d like a copy of the code.

The landscape of creation is transforming before our eyes. AI has become an incredible partner, bridging the gap between vision and execution. If you’ve had an idea simmering that seemed technically or financially out of reach, now might be the time to explore it with an AI assistant – you might just surprise yourself with what you can create!

May 13, 2025 EDIT: Destiny Matrix Research Tool

Destiny Matrix is a rather young system, with lots of development still available, lots of new discoveries still possible. This development requires studying the patterns over long time periods, looking at the progression of the cycle, at how frequently certain numbers and permutations of numbers repeat. I was getting tired of doing that labor manually, and decided to create a tool to help me iterate through long spans of time.

I was also interested in trying out Windsurf, the vibe-coding VS Code fork Open AI just acquired. This time, I used a GPT 4.1 API key as apparently, Windsurf was not working great with the new Gemini models at the time of testing. This is a massive step up from coding directly in AI chat, which this post was about. I was able to make this whole app without even looking at the code this time, it was a much smoother process in many ways. This is absolute proof that AI is now truly allowing non-coders to create useful applications. At this rate, pretty soon even people who are not tinkerers, will be able to.

Regarding this Destiny Matrix Research Tool – I was interested in seeing the patterns of how the Core number repeats, and how the Life Purpose a.k.a. Spiritual Harmony a.k.a. Destiny number repeats, and how the two combine to form these archetypes. Some archetypes are very rare, and others are more common. Some are so rare I didn’t know they were even possible until I ran the dates and found them. The tool is able to run the charts of every single day over thousands of years looking for the desired patterns in just a couple of seconds. The percentages reveal how often dates with the respective patterns occur over the span of time. I limited it to 2500 years spans so people wouldn’t crash the server, but I was able to run it with more than 5000 years on my laptop successfully (it did crash the browser when I tried 10,000 years). This means it calculated the individual charts for close to 2 million dates.

Another number I find fascinating are the Sacral chakra number, as it seems most archetypes have a single possible Sacral numbers, but some have two, possibly three. And lastly, the combinations of the “green bubbles”, the Heart and Heart’s Desire numbers, are very intriguing. They seem to define a person so well, and reveal so much about their drives, secret motivations, their true north star – I had to include those.

The app has allowed me to see that the combination taken as a whole of the five numbers of interest in my chart, only occurs for a single day every 9 years in the last century, but it has century long gaps in the last millennium!