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Real Build Logs: What Actually Happens When Non-Developers Build Apps With AI

A transparent index for the messy middle: decisions, mistakes, reviews, and tests. Entries marked planned are topics we intend to document; they are not invented case studies.

Planned

Building an Android app without knowing Kotlin

What the first working screen required, where AI guesses became risky, and how to test a real device flow.

Article in progress

Planned

Moving an Android app toward iOS

What can be shared, what must be redesigned, and why a port is not just a button press.

Article in progress

Planned

Adding payments and finding hidden problems

A careful look at webhooks, access, retries, test mode, and the checks a happy-path purchase misses.

Article in progress

Planned

GitHub conflict panic

How to pause, understand competing changes, preserve work, and recover without blindly resetting history.

Article in progress

Planned

Supabase security checks

A practical review of ownership, RLS, storage, keys, and what an AI audit cannot prove by itself.

Article in progress

Planned

App store testing

The release checks that matter on real phones, slow networks, fresh installs, and test accounts.

Article in progress

What makes a build log useful?

A useful log records the starting point, the actual tool prompts, what changed, what failed, what was verified, and what remains unknown. It does not turn a partial experiment into a success story.

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