She Couldn’t Find the Right App, So She Had AI Build It

Maggie Gao posted on X in June that she had analyzed more than 10 million lines of public data to build a free tool for New York City renters. The result, called Stoop , lets apartment hunters search any building across the city’s five boroughs for rent stabilization records, bedbug and pest reports, mold complaints and management company patterns before signing a lease. Gao built it using Lovable , a platform that turns plain-language prompts into working software without a line of hand-written