A week ago I set myself a challenge: build a working app in 7 daysA week ago I set myself a challenge: build a working app in 7 days
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Harry Menday
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• 9h
A week ago I set myself a challenge: build a working app in 7 days with absolutely no coding knowledge.
I'm a designer. I live in Figma. I've never opened a terminal on purpose. That place always gave me the heebie jeebies.
But I'd been curious about the other side for a while, what happens after the design handoff? What does it actually take to turn a design into something real? So I decided to find out.
The app is called SCRAN (colloquial language from my hometown for the word "food"). It's a recipe discovery app, swipe right to save, swipe left to skip, filter by cuisine, and a pantry feature that matches recipes to ingredients you already have at home.
My toolkit: Claude Code running inside VS Code, a Figma design system, and a knowledge cheat sheet I've been building as I go (I literally didn't know what an IDE was on day one).
Designers are better equipped for this than we think. We already understand systems, components, hierarchy, and user flows. The coding part is just a different language for the same ideas.
This is the app right now, a functional MVP, still being polished. Next up: finishing the visual overhaul to match my Figma designs pixel by pixel & adding new features.
The end goal is to go from designer to full-stack. This week proved to me it's possible.
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Harry Menday
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• 8h
This is where I was at two days ago 😅
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