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#buildinpublic #anythingai #hackathon #indiedev #productdesign | Summer Chang

$10K on the table. 5 hours to build. I entered the Anything AI hackathon today with one concept: a personal booking app for solo service providers. Think Calendly, but Stripe pays you directly. I called it SkillMeet. Here’s what I shipped in one session: Full-stack booking app. Provider dashboard. Services with pricing. Weekly availability calendar. 5-step client booking flow. Stripe Connect. Confirmation emails. Custom domain. Privacy policy. App Store submitted. Total spend: $30. The hackathon gave me 20K free credits. That’s $24 saved before I wrote a single prompt. What broke: First submission got rejected. Privacy statement wasn’t in the app. I hit Publish through Anything before completing App Store Connect. Lesson: fill out every field in App Store Connect before you publish. Not after. Fixed it. Resubmitted. In review now. What Anything is actually good at: Backend. Parallel DB queries, Stripe logic, availability calculations, error handling. It built things I would have spent days wiring manually. What it can’t do: Pixel-level design. The tab bar took 5 prompts and still didn’t match my reference. I moved on. Now here’s the interesting part. I’m building the same app in Xcode with SwiftUI. Native iOS. I call it Carvd. Same concept. Completely different build experience. Anything: fast, functional, full-stack in hours, design compromises. Carvd: slower, precise, pixel-perfect, full control. One is a template anyone can remix. One is a product I’m shipping to the App Store properly. Both are real. Both are useful. The tool determines the tradeoff. SkillMeet is live at skillmeet.live. #buildinpublic #anythingai #hackathon #indiedev #productdesign