James Coulter

James Coulter Open to work

Developer Apps for AI/SaaS Automation Platform


Overview
Developed 70+ app plugins used by 230K users worldwide for leading AI/SaaS automation platform. awarded developer partner of the year. See the full catalogue: https://is.gd/FyKrP1
My role
research & requirements gathering; web app ui design & development; testing & QA; sales & marketing; customer support
Tools & tech
figma, cursor ai, make.com, javascript, HTTP/REST API
Impact
• awarded developer partner of the year 2024
• products used by 5000 businesses globally
• selected as official development partner to Mistral, OpenRouter, Perplexity, and more vendors


Some of the 70+ apps developed; including Mistral AI, OpenRouter, Perplexity

Make.com is Europe’s leading SaaS automation platform; supporting ~2K apps developers use to connect and automate their business workflows.
As a community developer, I contributed 70+ of these new products for the platform over 12 months; which involved transforming technical documentation into user-friendly, working front ends business can plug and play into their businesses.

Example UI Design for the Input Panel of the Perplexity AI App


How it works: Users set parameters they wish to request from the app (left), the app processes this request, and then outputs a structured response from the app (right) they can use to power their business and personal workflows.


The process of building these apps required translating complex API documentation into usable, no-code input panels for less technical types to retrieve and manipulate their app data as means of automating their workflows. This was repeated for ~350 action, search, and trigger requests powering some 300K workflows.

The multi-layered product design process: transforming technical documentation into user-friendly no-code interfaces; with the help of an ai-code copilot.


UI Components from the App Configuration Panel used as building blocks for a user to form their request
See an example of one of the tools in action: https://youtu.be/QVdYH6XhGfk and how developers are building with our technology