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My First APP is Live!
🧶 Naughty Knitters is live on the App Store! I'm a non-coder who vibe-coded a native iPhone app with Claude, and it's finally out in the world. It's a free map of BC yarn shops, fibre farms and mills, plus a community events calendar and a set of free knitting tools (row counter, needle chart and more). It's available in both Canada and the US. The map is BC-focused, but the tools work anywhere, and it's a good look at what a solo builder can ship without a dev background. If you have an iPhone, I'd love it if you'd try it and leave a rating or review. Reviews are what get a new app noticed, and I'm entering it in a hackathon that ends Sep 30, so this week matters most. 🙏 👉 https://apps.apple.com/app/naughty-knitters/id6802524617 Happy to answer questions about how I built it, the tools I used, and getting through App Review as a first-timer. Feedback and honest criticism welcome! I'm busy returning emails from Knitting shops etc. I have an AI event at the University tonight and am waiting on a review for my second APP, I hope it make it in the hackathon also? Still shaking of dirt from Camping, will talk soon.
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I should have went back to bed? I just added to my, to do list the whole State of Washington, I don't think I can add anything until after the Hackathon but I think my chances of getting my investment plus a profit back, will be better and not sure if tariffs will effect this or not? Anyway I have other issues, like lack of sleep, lack of cash, Oh I just figured out how to cure the lack of sleep!!! I'll count Sheep.
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FINAL TALLY MUST READ? That's my opinion AI versus AI, here is a tainted review. Multi-AI research pipeline experiment — here's what actually worked Been expanding my Shipaton app (Naughty Knitters, a BC yarn shop/fiber farm map) into Washington State, and ran the same research brief through Grok, Gemini, and Perplexity to see who'd do the best job finding real yarn shops, farms, and guilds with actual published contact info. Findings, in case it saves someone else a few rounds of guessing: - Grok (Expert mode) was the strongest single pass by far — broad, honest about its own gaps, math checked out. - Gemini (3.1 Pro) covered less overall but independently found several businesses Grok missed, right in the towns Grok flagged as thin. - Perplexity was weak by default (leaned on one directory site instead of checking businesses individually) — but giving it a tip to search DuckDuckGo-style instead of generic "yarn shop + town" queries turned its 4th attempt into the best pass of all four. Order that worked: Grok first for breadth → Gemini to fill gaps → Perplexity with a search-strategy nudge to round it out. Went from 29 usable results to 101 across three passes. (I did not use claude.ai for actual testing, I should have, but, I used sonnet to run these AI tests, they are all the lowest pro levels I pay for.)
I'll Be Back.
Camping at Elk Falls Campground Campbell River BC Fishing capital of BC. Starlink no good but phone tethering, very slow I did learn a tethering trick will share when I'm back, busy fishing and watching Shanes, Vids. There's 1000's of Salmon running easy to catch. Sore arm no casting for me, so taking out the boat tomorrow to catch the Rainbow trout. Daughter came through 3rd Grandchild. The son in law came through with dry firewood. Life is GOOD!!!
I'll Be Back.
Amazon hackathon
some huge prices. I know @Steve Redden loves these things. Could be fun to get a team together for this one https://amazonappdev2026.devpost.com/
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Looks good after I get these 2 I'm working on tied up. Never let a good Hackathon go to waste. Sometimes you get free stuff, (Yes — leftover AWS credits absolutely can be put toward video work, and there's a real path for your use case (AI avatars, video creation), just not the way tools like HeyGen or Runway work. What credits actually cover AWS credits apply automatically across 200+ eligible services, and video-relevant ones fall into a few buckets:) I'll have a closer look when my current apps are shipped.
Anyone trying fable 5.1?
I’m interested to hear what everyone thinks
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@Gabriel Romero I keep Cursor because I do lot's of Cursor events and may become an ambassador, I got Perplexity for $9.00 student deal, claude.ai in the sidebar chrome extension, so far is the best tool I have and it's just for running webpages. I did drop to pro, and am playing with grok, I may drop gemini as I never ran out of free tokens. I used claude to fill and check all the forms in App Store connect. Saved me hours. I don't think I'll use fable 5.1 the one time I did I burnt $13.00 seemed like 5 mins?
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@Gabriel Romero I originally got google one AI because it boasted being able to act like claude in the side bar and sort my gmail but it sucked and was a bad experience. I will try it again, it could be improved this was a few months ago, I just got ChatGpt again for 1 month, I couldn't help myself. (I hate chatGpt, but when I had it last month I asked it to build me an app and not bother me, and it did and it worked, so I'm going to try it again.) cause Idropped, claude Max, I have room to play for a bit, with other AI's.
Sunday Funday
Anyone building something fun today? Maybe some AI music videos?
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@Jessica Waldron OMG! that's cool, country, gospel, I just read that so far had to go for dinner but will be back to investigate!
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