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Vestige: A Gemma 4 Brain Tracker That Won't Blow Smoke Up Your Ass

Ashley Childress on May 24, 2026

This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4 TL;DR What: Vestige—an ADHD-friendly Android app designed to point...
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GnomeMan4201 •

One of the more technically honest challenge submissions in my opinion.

Are you doing all of this directly on Android, or is there a desktop machine in the loop for the Kotlin/Compose side? I used to do my best developing on Android devices and loved pushing them to edge.

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Ashley Childress •

Thank you. I did it all directly on Android, cause I didn't see any reason to add a step between me and toast 🤣 Although next time I'll probably invest some more learning time in Android Studio. I imagine there's some handy things in there I have yet to discover.

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Giorgi Kobaidze •

This is absolutely amazing!🔥

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meow.hair •

🍷🤍
Thank you, Ashley, for your thoughtful effort.

Sharing your experience with accuracy and respect for developers.

You explained how you thought and why you built it.

A real engineer's experience, not a product ad.

I wish you more happiness and success.

To our engineer, Ashley Childress.
🧊🐟🌊

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Varsha Ojha •

I like the honesty in this. A lot of AI productivity tools overpromise by trying to sound smarter than the user. A tracker that simply reflects patterns, habits, and blind spots without pretending to be a life coach feels more useful. The value is not “AI knows your brain.” It’s helping you notice what you usually miss.

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Vasyl •

That title alone deserves a click 😂

But honestly, the “won’t blow smoke up your ass” angle is refreshing. Most AI productivity/mental-health tools either overhype everything or try too hard to sound supportive instead of useful.

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Ashley Childress •

That sentence sums up the entire anti-design for the project 😆

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Aabhas Sao •

really cool. I loved the part where it protects privacy. It is important to share stuff feely.

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RACHAEL MFON •

This is amazing