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How I Built A New Product Before My First Coffee

• by Jared Little • AI Learning
How I Built A New Product Before My First Coffee

How I Built A New Product Before My First Coffee

Look, mornings suck.

I wake up, hit the coffee machine, then immediately start scrolling—just long enough to hate myself.

But yesterday I flipped the script.

The Twenty-Four Minute Build

Instead of news, I talked to Grok for twenty-four straight minutes while still in pajamas.

End result?

  • A full course outline
  • Five secure-prompt labs
  • Pricing tiers
  • Thumbnail art
  • A lead-gen page

No whiteboard, no brainstorming session—just me, a steering wheel, and voice.

By seven twenty-five, I was out the door, but the work was done.

What Changed

Old morning routine:

  • Wake up
  • Coffee
  • Scroll social media
  • Feel bad about myself
  • Start actual work around 9 AM

New morning routine:

  • Wake up (no coffee yet)
  • Open Grok
  • Talk for 24 minutes
  • Have a complete product
  • Still out the door on time

Time wasted: Zero Time invested: 24 minutes Output: Production-ready product concept

The Voice Advantage

Why voice works:

  1. No typing friction - Thoughts flow faster than fingers
  2. No screen staring - I can get dressed, make coffee, move around
  3. Context persistence - Grok remembers the whole conversation
  4. Immediate iteration - “Actually, change that” takes 2 seconds

What I built without touching a keyboard:

Course Outline

  • Module structure
  • Learning objectives
  • Lab exercises
  • Prerequisites
  • Time estimates

Secure Prompt Labs

  • Five hands-on exercises
  • Security scenarios
  • Real-world applications
  • Validation criteria
  • Expected outcomes

Business Stuff

  • Three pricing tiers
  • Feature differentiation
  • Early bird discount structure
  • Payment processing notes

Marketing Assets

  • Thumbnail concepts
  • Color schemes
  • Typography choices
  • Visual hierarchy

Lead Generation

  • Landing page structure
  • Copy framework
  • Call-to-action placement
  • Email capture flow

The Actual Workflow

7:01 AM - Wake up, open Grok on phone 7:02 AM - “Help me build a course on secure prompting” 7:03-7:08 AM - Outline the course structure while making coffee 7:09-7:15 AM - Design the labs while getting dressed 7:16-7:20 AM - Work out pricing while brushing teeth 7:21-7:24 AM - Finalize lead-gen page in the car 7:25 AM - Drive to work

Total focused time: 24 minutes Total tasks completed: Everything I needed to launch

Why This Works

It’s not about the AI.

It’s about removing friction from ideation.

Traditional product development:

  • Schedule brainstorming meeting
  • Find whiteboard
  • Gather team (if you have one)
  • Debate approaches
  • Document everything
  • Schedule follow-up
  • Actually build stuff days later

Voice-first AI development:

  • Open app
  • Talk
  • Have complete product spec
  • Build later (or delegate to AI)

The difference: Time from idea to actionable plan dropped from days to minutes.

What I Learned

1. Coffee Is Optional

I always thought I needed coffee before doing real work.

Turns out: I need friction removal before doing real work.

Voice AI removes more friction than caffeine ever did.

2. Context Beats Brainstorming

Brainstorming sessions:

  • Someone talks
  • Someone else zones out
  • Ideas get lost
  • Notes are incomplete
  • Follow-up required

AI conversation:

  • Everything is captured
  • Nothing gets lost
  • Full context maintained
  • Instantly referenceable
  • No follow-up needed

3. Movement Enhances Thinking

Sitting at desk: Brain moves slow Walking around talking: Brain moves fast

I did my best thinking while:

  • Making coffee
  • Getting dressed
  • Walking to the car

Why: Physical movement seems to unlock creative thinking.

4. Early Morning Brain Is Underrated

Common belief: Morning brain is foggy, needs coffee Reality: Morning brain is fresh, uncluttered, creative

What I discovered: The first 30 minutes after waking might be my most creative time.

I’ve been wasting it on social media scrolling.

The Pattern I’m Seeing

This wasn’t a one-time thing.

I’ve done this multiple times now:

Last week:

  • Built entire blog post series (before breakfast)
  • Designed new website section (during commute)
  • Planned month of content (while walking dog)

The pattern:

  1. Start talking to AI during “dead time”
  2. Let ideas flow without friction
  3. Have complete work product
  4. Execute later

Dead time transformed:

  • Morning routine
  • Commute
  • Walking
  • Cooking
  • Any time I’d normally scroll

What This Means

If you can do this with product development…

What else can you do?

Marketing campaigns? Probably. Business strategies? Yeah. Technical architectures? Absolutely. Life decisions? Maybe not, but possibly.

The implication: The bottleneck isn’t time. It’s friction to starting.

Voice AI removes that friction entirely.

How To Try This Yourself

Step 1: Pick Your Dead Time

  • Morning routine
  • Commute
  • Exercise
  • Cooking
  • Walking

Step 2: Open Voice AI

  • Grok
  • ChatGPT voice mode
  • Claude (if they add voice)
  • Whatever works

Step 3: Start Talking

  • Don’t plan what to say
  • Just start describing what you want to build
  • Let the AI ask clarifying questions
  • Keep talking until it’s done

Step 4: Review Later

  • Read the transcript
  • Pull out the good stuff
  • Ignore the rambling
  • Ship it

The Twenty-Four Minute Challenge

Try this tomorrow:

  1. Before coffee, before screen time
  2. Open voice AI on your phone
  3. Spend 24 minutes talking about something you want to build
  4. See what you have when you’re done

My bet: You’ll have more than you usually produce in 2 hours at a desk.

What I’m Building Next

While walking the dog:

  • New prompt library structure
  • Security testing framework
  • Lab exercise templates

While making dinner:

  • Marketing automation flow
  • Email sequence
  • Social media content calendar

While driving to the office:

  • Partnership strategy
  • Revenue model
  • Growth experiments

Total keyboard time required: Maybe 30 minutes to clean up and ship.

The Bottom Line

You don’t need:

  • A desk
  • A laptop
  • Coffee
  • A brainstorming session
  • A team meeting

You need:

  • 24 minutes
  • Voice AI
  • Willingness to talk out loud

Result: Complete product before your first coffee.

The Uncomfortable Truth

I’ve been doing mornings wrong for 25 years.

Optimizing for caffeine when I should have been optimizing for friction removal.

Voice AI removes friction.

Keyboards add friction.

The math is simple.

P.S. - I wrote this blog post outline the same way. Voice, pajamas, no coffee. Took 8 minutes.

Try it tomorrow.

What will you build before coffee?