From Healthcare Administrator to App Founder
Jessica Vasquez has spent more than 20 years navigating healthcare administration, IT, and clinical applications. She knows complex systems. She knows how to manage teams and technology. What she had never done — until this spring — was write computer code.
That changed when Jessica enrolled in Show-Me Network’s Prompt to Solution (also called Idea to App) course, created and led by codefi. It is a full-stack, AI-focused program designed for non-technical founders who want to build real software without waiting years to become developers.
The result? A fully functional decentralized marketplace called EggDrop — live at eggdrop.farm — connecting local farmers and cottage food producers with consumers looking for locally raised food in their communities.
“I had an idea, and I needed to build it,” Jessica said. “The course gave me the structure and the tools to actually do that.”
EggDrop is no simple demo. The platform includes a storefront called the Egg Basket Shop, wholesale purchasing, location-based search, English-Spanish translation, and a tiered vendor model with a “Hen House Pass” subscription. Vendors manage their listings through a dashboard with calendar sync, weather forecasting, and an AI assistant named Clucky that helps categorize products and flag allergens. Payments run through Stripe. The platform connects to Shopify for merchandise. It even has a social media post creator built in.
Jessica built it on Replit, registered the domain, and is now focused on onboarding vendors and executing a marketing strategy — including direct outreach at local farmers’ markets in Stone County and the Branson, Missouri area.
That community connection matters. The Branson region’s economy depends heavily on seasonal tourism, creating real economic vulnerability for residents year-round. EggDrop gives local producers a direct-to-consumer channel that works regardless of the season.
“Instead of fearing what technology is going to replace,” Jessica explained, “learn to configure it and orchestrate it. It doesn’t work in shifts. It doesn’t take days off. That’s the advantage.”
The course — led by codefi instructor Garrett Duncan— kept Jessica grounded in a step-by-step build approach, pushing cohort members to ship a working MVP rather than over-engineer from the start. The virtual cohort format, combined with peer support and instructor mentorship, gave Jessica the accountability to move from concept to functional product.
If you have founders or builders in your network who are ready to move from idea to working product, codefi’s AI Skills courses are a resource worth putting in front of them.
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