Building in public

Made for my family. Shared with yours.

A dad who never learned to code, building apps and sites with AI. My family tries everything first.

Apps

iPhone · Android

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GoPlants

Live · iOS
5 languages한국어 · English · 日本語 · 繁體 · 简体

Grow a fruit tree on your home screen widget.

Download on theApp StoreGET IT ONGoogle Play
GoPlants app screen

Taekwondo Master

Coming soon
2 languagesEnglish · 한국어

Kick & Break. Train from white belt to black.

Download on theApp StoreGET IT ONGoogle Play
Taekwondo Master title screen

Web & channel

website · YouTube

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ShadeDial

Live · Web
34 campgrounds · 6,600 sitesUS 19 · Canada 15English

Shady or sunny? Every site at US and Canadian national-park campgrounds, hour by hour.

ShadeDial home page

How I make things

idea → store

  1. 01
    It starts at the dinner tableMy kids use it and tell me what is missing.GoPlants’ visiting bugs and cat were their idea
  2. 02
    Built with AIAI writes the code. I decide what it should be.I never learned to code
  3. 03
    Three AIs check each otherClaude, ChatGPT and Gemini try to prove each other wrong.One more pass before every store review
  4. 04
    Automated checks, then real phonesEvery build runs the checks, then goes onto our own phones.GoPlants runs 47 checks per build
  5. 05
    Ship, listen, fixReviews and emails go straight into the next update.Every fix goes into the dev log
5languages (GoPlants)
222benefits matched (Gadeuk)
6,600+campsites mapped for shade (ShadeDial)
100+dev log entries (GoPlants)
Family uses it first Blank over wrong Rewarded ads only No names or ID numbers collected
Claude CodeChatGPT · CodexGeminiCapacitorPhaserNext.jsFirebaseCloudflareCodemagicVercelClaude CodeChatGPT · CodexGeminiCapacitorPhaserNext.jsFirebaseCloudflareCodemagicVercel

Let’s talk.

hello@lucasmakes.app