Doctor with No Coding Experience Builds a Health App on Replit in Just 4 Days
Replit, a platform that enables users to create AI-powered applications through natural language prompts, shared the story of a doctor who is developing a healthcare app without any prior coding experience. Dr Fahim Hussain, a general practitioner who currently works as the director of Northern Health in the United Kingdom, set out to develop an app called MyDoctor, which offers various services, including booking appointments with doctors, requesting prescriptions, tracking nutrition and habits, providing exercise and health monitoring guides, managing medication, and more. A doctor got quoted £100k for an app. He built it himself for £175. pic.twitter.com/G9vO3f8jW6— Replit ⠕ (@Replit) July 9, 2025 When Hussain approached traditional app development agencies, he was quoted a price of £75,000 to £100,000. Instead, he used Replit himself to build it in four days, spending just £175. “I have never coded in my life, with no background knowledge at all, despite knowing a lot about technology as someone who’s interested in the space generally,” Hussain said, adding that he downloaded Replit and started exploring its capabilities. “Things started off slow; I didn’t really know how to prompt the agent properly, all I knew was that we had a website and I needed to connect what we did via the app,” he said. He revealed that every time he encountered something he did not understand, he simply began conversing with the AI agent. Once Hussain clarified his requirements, he used Replit to develop all the necessary features for the app. I then created a fourth tab with an AI assistant (all AI assistants using DeepSeek API) that has been programmed as a symptom checker using conditional logic from NICE guidelines (UK Medical guidelines) – intelligently advises the patient on red flags and what recommended next…— Dr. Fahim Hussain (@TheSecretDoc) July 9, 2025 Currently, he stated that he is working with Supabase to implement the backend features, ensuring that the health data remains compliant with various regulations. “It’s revolutionised the way I work because we’re concentrating on the patient and the technology handles everything else,” Hussain said. In the blog post shared by Replit, the company mentioned that the app helped push the timeline of his business forward by over a year, along with creating potential for a standalone revenue stream.
UK-based Dr Fahim Hussan built the ‘MyDoctor’ app in four days, at a fraction of the cost quoted by app development agencies, which ranged from £75,000 to £100,000.
UK-based Dr Fahim Hussan built the ‘MyDoctor’ app in four days, at a fraction of the cost quoted by app development agencies, which ranged from £75,000 to £100,000. 
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