I’ve been building a scavenger hunt-esque app for a group trip with friends this fall. It is admittedly more involved than 30 minutes with Claude but it’s been so much fun building an app I know will only be used by that specific group for one specific week, and to be able to tailor everything to that experience
I’m not sharing it until after the trip so nothing gets spoiled for my friends, but after I’m sure I’ll share a ton of screenshots and details about how I made it
Such a good post Michael! "Paper plate" software is a great name for it. I have 8 or so random vibe-coded apps in progress right now. When an idea strikes, I just go to town lol. 🙈 One is a memory capture app for milestones and cute stuff my daughter says. I was tired of my long Note, didn't like anything in the App Store, so I just..built one. Voice-logged and auto-categorizes. Love the freedom and empowerment that comes from the low barrier to entry of building software now.
I’ve been building a scavenger hunt-esque app for a group trip with friends this fall. It is admittedly more involved than 30 minutes with Claude but it’s been so much fun building an app I know will only be used by that specific group for one specific week, and to be able to tailor everything to that experience
This is a PERFECT example
Would love to see screenshots
I’m not sharing it until after the trip so nothing gets spoiled for my friends, but after I’m sure I’ll share a ton of screenshots and details about how I made it
Makes sense!
Such a good post Michael! "Paper plate" software is a great name for it. I have 8 or so random vibe-coded apps in progress right now. When an idea strikes, I just go to town lol. 🙈 One is a memory capture app for milestones and cute stuff my daughter says. I was tired of my long Note, didn't like anything in the App Store, so I just..built one. Voice-logged and auto-categorizes. Love the freedom and empowerment that comes from the low barrier to entry of building software now.
That’s such a cool idea!
I would to see screenshots or demo :)
My wife has a very long running Apple iNote where she keeps all of our little memories with our kiddos
Thanks for the re-stack! 🙏