Tintello: A color quiz where cobalt is named after a goblin
The article discusses the development of Tintello, a color quiz app created by Paul Gedeon. Unlike his previous app, Piplo, Gedeon utilized AI tools to streamline the building process, allowing him to focus on user experience rather than coding. The app evolved from a competitive quiz format to a calming daily ritual based on user feedback.
- ▪Paul Gedeon built Tintello, a color quiz app, using AI tools like Claude Code and ChatGPT.
- ▪The app features over 700 named colors and 200 themed palettes, focusing on user experience and content quality.
- ▪Initially designed as a competitive game, user feedback led to a pivot towards a more relaxing and educational experience.
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Tintello: Judgment Is Harder to Delegate Than CodePaul Gedeon11 min read·Just now--ListenShareA year ago, I shipped Piplo in 50 hours. I spent most of them in an IDE. This time I never opened a source file.Piplo is an iOS relationship-reminder app, in about 50 hours using Cursor and ChatGPT. That project proved to me that AI could compress the timeline enough for a solo build. In the past months, I learned from scaling my own responsibilities with Claude Code that the models had taken a step-function leap in Q1 this year. I wanted to build a new app to test how much had changed in a year. I just needed an idea.Then, while reading a book, I came across “zomp,” a color I had never heard of before.
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