Build journal
Forty-two days from the first color-block wireframe to a build sitting in front of an Apple reviewer — written down as it happened, screenshot by screenshot.
From color-block wireframes to handwritten Polaroids. The pivot from photo grid to scrapbook, the day real photos changed everything, and the messy middle.
Read Part 1 → Part 2 · May 2 – May 22, 2026Late nights, a portmanteau, the Magic Wizard, App Store screenshots, and one About page that almost stopped the whole thing. Then: Submit for Review.
Read Part 2 → Part 3 · April 19 – May 17, 2026The part I left out of the first two posts — how I actually worked with AI on the build. The useful bits, the wrong bits, and the surprisingly human bits in between.
Read Part 3 → Part 4 · April 22 – May 18, 2026The B-side. Two models critiquing the same page, the director-and-coder split, an image-brief shift at 5 AM, and the day the novelty finally wore off.
Read Part 4 →