Build Log
Notes from building BooCoo. What shipped, what broke, and what I learned making a finance app almost entirely through AI.
When the Screen Gazes Also Into You
In 1981 an 8-year-old watched a Logo turtle move across an Apple II screen and felt pulled toward the world behind the glass. Forty-five years of epochs later, from the Internet to the iPhone to a coworker named Claude, something in that world may finally be looking back.
Read the essayBudgeting Apps Give Everyone Anxiety. And That's a Problem.
Opening a budgeting app and feeling your stomach drop isn't a personal failing. The research on reactance, the abstinence violation effect, and why restriction backfires, plus what we built instead.
Read the essayIs This My App, or Claude's?
Two years ago I wrote every line myself. I haven't touched the code in months. The story of vibe coding BooCoo through Claude, from a Stack Overflow habit to running the whole business through AI.
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