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Building Hounty: Baby steps

Valeria on January 25, 2025

I've been building software for sixteen years. I've built countless websites, mobile apps, backend solutions and quirky side projects. The latter n...
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I was building something along these lines using firebase called chore rewards. I wanted users to have families and got hung up on the architecture of adding and removing family members and joining other families etc that it ended up back on the shelf

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Valeria

Very relatable! Using every trick I know to keep myself focused too 😅
What did you use for frontend or did you start with the API first?

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martipello

It was a flutter app for android iOS and web with a firebase backend I got quite far with it

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Fyodor

I could finally have an excuse to code

That's the best reason to start a business I ever heard 🤘

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Valeria

Haha thank you 😎

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bbauer82

wow that's a brilliant idea, I hope it works with my children too😅

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Valeria

I hope so too!

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Christian Green

That's awesome I want to try the app as well. I wish you all the best.

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Valeria

Thank you so much! I’m building the mobile app, but feel free to explore the web prototype in the meantime! Let me know what you think!

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Richard Joseph

I was looking to do something similar myself, at least from the standpoint of taking pics.

For future reference, have a look at Dexie.js, it's a nicer wrapper around IndexDB.

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Valeria

Thanks a ton, will do!

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Sunil kumar Dubey

Awesome

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Valeria

Thank you!

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Armin Moraghah

Brilliant

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Valeria

Thank you ☺️

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oreo

as an AuDHDer, colour me interested lol

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Valeria

Haha, yup, that’s spot on!

So far it looks promising: two people with add/autism managed to clean with the app, but trying new things is rarely an issue - making it into a habit is a completely different story 🤗