# Seeking guidance for building first app
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/seeking-guidance-for-building-first-app/73997
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [June 9, 2024, 5:28pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/seeking-guidance-for-building-first-app/73997 "2024-06-09T17:28:32Z")
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### Author:  [@MindBridge](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MindBridge)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2024, 5:28pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/seeking-guidance-for-building-first-app/73997/1 "2024-06-09T17:28:32Z")
Hi there Gliders! 👋🏽
I am very new to this community and new to app development in general.
I am trying to build a AI-assisted addiction recovery coaching app. This subject is personal to me, and I am trying to build a solution I wish I had in my recovery days. I am also taking this as an opportunity to step outside my comfort zone and learn something new.
While I continue navigating through Glide university and the posts here to learn how I can develop this solution, I am sending out this bat signal 🦇 to seek your guidance for any links/courses/templates etc. I should specifically look at that would be useful for this newbie.
Idea: The app will have structured day-by-day course material which is drip fed as users progress through the course as well as non-linear topics that users can dive into whenever they need + a 24/7 AI chat assistant that users can interact with, the assistant takes into account the user’s progress as well as a summary of the user’s journal entries when responding
The broad features I would love to get your insights on:
- Setting up the coursework in the app (distinct screens for overall course and individual daily contents) and unlocking it based on progress
- Building a private journal + chat feature which users can write into based on course prompts and have GPT responses; both as a standalone as well integrated into the coursework (i.e. prompts and GPT responses within the course screen)
- User accounts, privacy and individual progress tracking
- General UI/UX suggestions
_Any_ guidance or direction for one or more of these is much appreciated! Please also share with me if you think any of this is too ambitious/impractical.
Thank you very much!! 🤞🏽 🙏🏽
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### Author:  [@Nataliya\_Kovaleva](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Nataliya_Kovaleva)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2024, 12:26am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/seeking-guidance-for-building-first-app/73997/2 "2024-06-10T00:26:39Z")
Hi! I think what you have described is possible to build although not easy. Make sure that your app follows Glide’s guidelines about private user’s information handling… [User Data Rules and Restrictions | Glide](https://www.glideapps.com/legal/user-data)
On the second note, the AI assistant (the way you want it to work) most likely will require Call API function which is on a Business plan, please, take that into consideration…
Check Loqode’s newest youtube video for the tutorial: [Open AI in Glide or AI assistant in GPT account - #16 by Nataliya\_Kovaleva](https://community.glideapps.com/t/open-ai-in-glide-or-ai-assistant-in-gpt-account/70904/16)
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### Author:  [@MindBridge](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MindBridge)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2024, 8:57am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/seeking-guidance-for-building-first-app/73997/3 "2024-06-10T08:57:41Z")
Thank you so much @Nataliya_Kovaleva! This is very helpful. I’ve also signed up for the Loqode school.
Cognizant of the user privacy concerns, at this stage I am only envisaging a “assistant” for people on their recovery journey so won’t be asking for any specific/identifiable health data.