LifeMap: Building a Personal Growth Companion with Bolt 🚀

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WLH Challenge: Building with Bolt Submission

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This is a submission for the World's Largest Hackathon Writing Challenge: Building with Bolt.

🚦 Project Overview: LifeMap

LifeMap is a digital companion that helps users track their personal growth, reflect on their journey, and set meaningful goals. The app blends journaling, AI-powered insights, and a beautiful, easy-to-use interface to make self-improvement accessible and engaging.

⚡ Why Bolt? How It Changed My Development Process

Bolt – AI-powered Website and App builder

Before Bolt, my workflow involved using many tools. I often switched contexts and did a lot of manual setup. Bolt’s AI-powered development environment changed everything:

Instant Context: Bolt understood my prompt, suggested improvements, and even wrote boilerplate for me.
Seamless Sponsor Integration: Integrating APIs like Supabase for authentication and storage, or RevenueCat for subscriptions was easy with Bolt’s smart code suggestions and auto-completion.
Faster Debugging: The AI assistant caught bugs and suggested fixes before I even ran the code.
Focus on Creativity: With less time spent on setup and syntax, I could focus on designing features that matter.

📝 The Original Prompt: My Vision for LifeMap

I want to build a mobile-first journaling and self-coaching app called "LifeMap."

It should help users log their emotions, decisions, and daily habits with a clean and minimal UI. The app should include:

1. A daily entry screen with questions like:
   - "How do you feel today?" (emoji/mood scale)
   - "What was your biggest decision today?"
   - "What habits did you complete?" (toggle-based checklist)

2. A dashboard to view:
   - Mood and habit trends (simple line/bar charts)
   - Journal log history (sorted by date)

3. A subscription system using **RevenueCat**:
   - Free plan: max 3 entries/week, no AI insights.
   - Pro plan: unlimited entries, habit tracking, and weekly AI summaries.
   - Use RevenueCat SDK and Paywall Builder to offer in-app purchases.

4. AI-based weekly summaries:
   - At the end of the week, generate a short summary using journal entries (mock this feature for now using a placeholder).
   - Include advice or insights like “You were more productive on Wednesdays.”

5. Coaches and teams can publish branded versions of LifeMap using **custom domains via Entri**:
   - Allow optional domain setup for Pro users to share their journal/coaching version (e.g., `coachjane.lifemap.app`).
   - Include a simple landing page builder for this.

6. Deploy the full app using **Netlify** with a clean, mobile-optimized design.

Design should be elegant, minimal, focused on mental health & self-growth. Use soft pastel color themes, readable fonts, and accessible design.

Please include:
- A working homepage
- Daily entry screen
- Dashboard (with insights, history, subscription status)
- Paywall screen (RevenueCat)
- Settings screen (profile, custom domain option)

Let’s build the MVP first, then I’ll add more features.

🛠️ Technical Journey and Challenges

Journaling with AI Insights I wanted users to write journal entries and receive meaningful feedback. Bolt helped me set up an endpoint to analyze entries using Dappier. It even generated a React hook for fetching insights.

// Example: Using the AI analysis endpoint in a React hook
const { analyzeEntry } = useAIService();
const handleAnalyze = async (entry) => {
  const result = await analyzeEntry(entry);
  setAnalysis(result);
};

Authentication and User Data Supabase was my preferred backend. Bolt's AI assistant created the initial authentication flow and identified a subtle bug in my session handling.
Subscription Management Integrating RevenueCat for premium features felt daunting, but Bolt's code search and helpful suggestions made it simple.
UI/UX Iteration Bolt's live preview and component suggestions accelerated my design process. I could concentrate on user experience, not just code.

💡 Favorite Bolt Features

AI-Powered Code Search: Find anything, anywhere, instantly.
Smart Refactoring: Rename, extract, and refactor with confidence.
Prompt Library: Reuse and remix prompts for code generation and documentation.
Sponsor Tech Templates: Pre-built integrations for hackathon sponsors.

🤖 How AI Changed My Approach

I used to spend hours on Stack Overflow and in documentation. Now, I ask Bolt’s AI assistant for help. It provides context-aware answers, code, and even design suggestions. It feels like pair programming with a powerful teammate.

🤝 Sponsor Tech & Integrations

Building LifeMap wouldn’t have been possible without the amazing sponsor technologies provided through Bolt. Here’s how each one powered my project:

Supabase: Secure authentication, user management, and fast database for storing journal entries.
RevenueCat: Effortless in-app subscriptions and paywall management for free and Pro plans.
Dappier: AI-powered real-time chat integration, enabling users to interact with smart coaching features and get instant feedback.
Entri: Powered the custom domain and publishing system, allowing me to launch LifeMap at https://www.life-map.me/.
Netlify: Fast, reliable deployment and hosting with mobile optimization and easy custom domain setup.

🏆 Final Thoughts

Building LifeMap with Bolt changed everything. I completed features quicker, learned new technology, and focused more on what matters: helping users grow.

If you’re thinking about using Bolt for your next project, go for it. The future of development is here.
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