Shipping my first mobile app with AI
The article discusses the author's experience in developing and launching a mobile app called Grateful. This social media app focuses on sharing gratitude among users and incorporates various features like daily reminders and notifications. The author highlights the challenges faced during the development process, particularly with app submission requirements for Apple and Google.
- ▪The Grateful app allows users to share short posts about things they are grateful for, along with optional photos.
- ▪The author utilized various technologies such as Expo, React Native, and Next.js for the app's development and deployment.
- ▪AI played a significant role in simplifying tasks like coding and managing app submission paperwork.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 25 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ My mobile app made $800K in 365 days — Yahoo Finance
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| Original publisher | Hacker News (AI / LLM) |
| Canonical URL | https://blog.foundingengineer.com/p/what-i-learned-building-my-first |
| Publication time | Sun, 17 May 2026 22:07:01 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-17T22:13:21.045Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-17T22:13:21.045Z |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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What I learned building my first mobile appI assumed the code would be the hard part...Rahul PatniMay 17, 2026ShareI shipped Grateful to the App Store and Google Play earlier this year. It is a social media app where you only see content from people you follow (shocker). You write a short post, optionally attach a photo, and share it to a private group. These entries are centered around being grateful for something that just happened in your life. There is also a daily reminder, reactions, comments, and a notification that surfaces an old entry from your history.screenshots from the Grateful appThe stackExpo and React Native for the clientEAS for builds and OTA updatesClerk for authNeon for serverless PostgresDrizzle as the ORM, shared between mobile and the Next.js backendNext.js on…
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