From steps to apps

You recently used Replit to build a simple expense tracker for your team. It only took a few hours, compared to the weeks you expected if you had coded everything from scratch.

Here's the prompt you used.

Help me create a team expense tracker app.

It should feature shared expense logging, team budgets, and per-member balance tracking. Each team member should be able to add expenses, categorize them, and see how costs are split.

Do research on popular expense-sharing and team finance management techniques (like Splitwise, shared budgeting, or equal vs. weighted splits) for our app. The shared expense tracker and balance reconciliation should be the core functionality.

Make the app hyper minimalist to be distraction-free and collaborative, with a clean dashboard showing group totals, individual contributions, and outstanding balances.

Now your boss is curious about how Replit managed to move so quickly and asked you to write a step-by-step guide showing the process Replit followed to build the app.