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A Brooklyn food entrepreneur used AI to help keep his 'forever house' project organized
Jonathan Butler cofounded Smorgasburg and Brownstoner. Now he's building a house in New York — and vibe coding a construction management tool.
TL;DR
- Jonathan Butler, known for cofounding Smorgasburg and Brooklyn Flea, used AI to develop software without coding.
- He created a construction management tool named Metalog to organize documents for building his new home in Germantown, New York.
- Butler utilized AI platforms like ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude Code, spending approximately 25 hours on the Metalog project.
- The Metalog tool aims to centralize document sharing and management for his home construction project, improving collaboration with his architect and contractor.
- Butler plans to develop another AI tool to scrape architects' contact information for potential users of Metalog.