AI for Founders with Ryan Estes Boutique catering booking app with AI in 30 minutes
Aug 2, 2025
40:36
AI for Founders - Fernanda's Pop-Up Food App AI for Founders: Fernanda’s Pop-Up Food App Journey Overview
In this episode, Ryan Estes teams up with Fernanda, co-creator of Bruma & Borba, to build a fully functioning boutique event booking assistant using GPT and Lovable. Together, they build a high-end, surrealist experience generator for her pop-up food brand in under 30 minutes.
Key Takeaways- Custom GPT-generated prompts created a branded booking assistant
- AI-generated menus include poetic descriptions and thematic pairings
- Prompt engineering strategy: always ask “how to make this better”
- App collects event data: location, cuisine, mood, guest count, etc.
- Editable event briefs in a stylized PDF or email output
- Tool doubles as a lead magnet with email capture
- Bruma & Borba plans to scale through boutique, narrative experiences
- Set a build time constraint
- Use GPT to define creative function
- Build rapidly with Lovable
- Keep the tone playful and experiential
- Collect emails through interaction
- Include customization and branding
- Launch fast, iterate weekly
- Lovable – No-code AI app builder
- AI for Founders – Podcast & Newsletter
- Ryan Estes – Personal Site
- Eat Now Denver – Local vibe-coded project
- Bruma & Borba – (link coming soon)