App Development in Just 4 Hours! Generative AI x Vibe Coding App Development Experience Workshop Held for Students
ProtoOut Studio held a student workshop in Nagoya using the AI agent 'Manus' and vibe coding, successfully guiding participants to build working apps in just 4 hours.
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ProtoOut Studio, which conducts practical training to increase "citizen developers" in diverse fields such as retail, healthcare, and dining, held a student workshop titled "App Development Experience using Generative AI & Vibe Coding" at STATION Ai in Nagoya in January 2026, as part of STAPS, a student entrepreneur development program sponsored by Aichi Prefecture.
The purpose of this workshop was not just to build an app and be done with it, but to equip participants with the skills to replicate the process after the workshop by treating generative AI as a development tool. First, participants used "Manus," an autonomous AI agent that thinks, plans, and executes autonomously based on user instructions, to quickly create an app. It was a hands-on workshop where they then used a method called vibe coding to add functions and improve the prototype of the app.
In a short amount of time, they created an app from scratch, implemented their own ideas into it, and presented the results.
▪️ App Development Experience with Generative AI
1. Opening
First, the workshop started with a review of the overall goals.
By aligning the ultimate objectives of the course at the beginning, even if the participants had different backgrounds (experience levels, strengths, and weaknesses), they could share a common understanding of what they would achieve in these four hours.
As a result, even if they got stuck halfway, it was easier for them to determine "where I am now and what I should prioritize," allowing them to participate in the hands-on session in a state where it was easy to ask questions.
Opening by CEO Nobisuke Sugawara
2. Hands-on First Half: Making Something that Works as Quickly as Possible
In the first half, participants used Manus to create an app with functions to save dates, times, memos, and photos, and got it running on a smartphone.
App production requires a certain amount of prerequisite knowledge, such as initial settings for frameworks and peripheral tools. Therefore, in this hands-on...
The purpose of this workshop was not just to build an app and be done with it, but to equip participants with the skills to replicate the process after the workshop by treating generative AI as a development tool. First, participants used "Manus," an autonomous AI agent that thinks, plans, and executes autonomously based on user instructions, to quickly create an app. It was a hands-on workshop where they then used a method called vibe coding to add functions and improve the prototype of the app.
In a short amount of time, they created an app from scratch, implemented their own ideas into it, and presented the results.
▪️ App Development Experience with Generative AI
1. Opening
First, the workshop started with a review of the overall goals.
By aligning the ultimate objectives of the course at the beginning, even if the participants had different backgrounds (experience levels, strengths, and weaknesses), they could share a common understanding of what they would achieve in these four hours.
As a result, even if they got stuck halfway, it was easier for them to determine "where I am now and what I should prioritize," allowing them to participate in the hands-on session in a state where it was easy to ask questions.
Opening by CEO Nobisuke Sugawara
2. Hands-on First Half: Making Something that Works as Quickly as Possible
In the first half, participants used Manus to create an app with functions to save dates, times, memos, and photos, and got it running on a smartphone.
App production requires a certain amount of prerequisite knowledge, such as initial settings for frameworks and peripheral tools. Therefore, in this hands-on...