Tag: why-i-built-it
All the articles with the tag "why-i-built-it".
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Why it exists · QuestLog Why I built QuestLog: a game backlog tracker with a roulette wheel, and the API that died halfway through
The Friday-night problem: more games saved than played, and an hour spent choosing. QuestLog's roulette wheel, why time-to-beat is the most important field in the app, what happened when RAWG shut down mid-build and IGDB replaced it, shipping a Kotlin Multiplatform codebase to Google Play, and two Compose bugs that cost real days.
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Why it exists · Textrix Why Textrix moved from a cloud model to on-device AI (and what it cost)
Textrix launched in 2024 sending every paragraph to a cloud API. Version 2.8 runs the AI on the iPhone — Apple's on-device model where available, a downloaded local model everywhere else. Why the switch, the 940 MB download problem, what got worse, what got better, and the keyword audit that found the app ranking for 'proofread' at #219 and nothing else.
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Why it exists · Booksum Why I built Booksum — and what chasing 'book tracker' taught me about App Store keywords
Booksum started as a fix for forgetting what I read: scan the page, keep the passage, summarise it on-device. Then it shipped under the wrong title. The numbers behind renaming 'Book Tracker & Scan' to 'Reading Journal', the intent traps ('summary' is a meeting-notes term, 'passage' is a health app), and why brand names got stripped from every non-US title.
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Why it exists · Marjai Why I built Marjai: 1,463 rulings, verbatim, offline, and no AI anywhere near the text
Scraping Sayyid Sistani's al-Masail al-Muntakhaba from the official site and proving zero mismatches, why the source's own numbering typo was kept, Arabic search that ignores diacritics and hamza forms, the decision to stay Arabic-only, and shipping iOS and Android from one Compose Multiplatform codebase.