I Built a Chemical Engineering AI App With No Coding Experience Using MeDo

Akash Sonowal — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:26:36 +0000

I Built a ChemE AI App With No Coding

Experience Using MeDo

Who I Am

I'm Akash — a first year Chemical Engineering
student at IIT Bombay. Before this hackathon,
my only programming experience was C++ from
my first semester.

No React. No Python. No databases. No APIs.

Yet I built and deployed a fully working
AI-powered web application in under a week.

Here's how.

The Problem I Wanted to Solve

Every Chemical Engineering student knows
this pain:

Searching through 500 page PDF textbooks for one steam table value
Spending 2 hours on one energy balance problem
Googling formulas across 10 different websites
No single tool that actually understands ChemE problems

I wanted to build something that works like
a 24/7 professor — available anytime, explains
everything step by step, and actually understands
chemical engineering.

What I Built — ChemEng AI

ChemEng AI is an AI-powered web application
for chemical engineering students with 9 features:

1. AI Problem Solver
Solves real industrial problems step by step.
Not just simple formulas — actual complex
problems like evaporator design, combustion
calculations, and heat exchanger analysis.

2. ChemE Tables
Search any engineering table instantly.
Steam tables, superheated steam, Cp values,
Antoine constants — no more PDF searching.

3. Graph Generator
Describe any graph in plain English and get
an interactive visualization.

4. Engineering Calculator
Universal calculator for any ChemE calculation
— Reynolds number, LMTD, pressure drop,
ideal gas — just describe what you need.

5. Topic Explorer
Search any ChemE concept and get a full
AI explanation with formulas and examples.

6. Formula Sheet
Complete searchable formula database for
all ChemE subjects.

7. Quiz Mode
AI generated quizzes on any topic at
3 difficulty levels.

8. Unit Converter
All standard engineering units.

9. Voice Input
Speak your problem instead of typing.

The Most Impressive Moment

I gave the AI Problem Solver this question:

"A natural gas containing 95 mole% methane
and 5 mole% ethane is burnt with 20% excess
air. Calculate the required molar flow rate
of air, composition of stack gas, heat
transfer rate in the preheater, and exit
temperature of stack gas."

It solved it in 11 steps.
Correctly.
With proper units, assumptions stated,
and formatted like a professor would write it.

That's Masters level Chemical Engineering —
solved by an app I built through conversation.

How I Built It With MeDo

I had never used MeDo before this hackathon.

Here's my honest experience:

Step 1 — Describe the app
I described ChemEng AI in plain English.
MeDo generated a complete requirements
document automatically.

Step 2 — Generate the app
One click. MeDo built the entire frontend,
backend, and AI integration.

Step 3 — Refine through conversation
This is where MeDo really shines. I refined
everything through chat:

"Fix the AI streaming error"
"Make topics dynamic not hardcoded"
"Add a ChemE Tables section"
"Build a universal engineering calculator"
"Fix the formatting of math equations"

Each request updated the app instantly.

Step 4 — Deploy
One click deployment. Live URL in minutes.

What Surprised Me Most

As a non-CS student, I expected to hit walls.

I didn't.

MeDo handled everything I didn't know:

Backend API connections
AI plugin integration
Database free architecture
Responsive mobile design
Deployment

I just focused on the domain knowledge —
what a ChemE student actually needs —
and MeDo handled the rest.

Try It Yourself

🔗 Live app:
https://app-bkhlhx92sum9.appmedo.com

🎥 Demo video:
https://youtu.be/aj0_jSHkRtI

The gap between having an idea and
shipping a working app has never been smaller.

If you have domain knowledge in any field —
medicine, law, finance, engineering —
you can build tools for your community
without being a developer.

That's what MeDo made possible for me.

DEV Community: Akash Sonowal