Let me tell you about the feature I'm most proud of. And how it came from a very personal frustration.
I kept forgetting to log my meals. Not because I was lazy — but because life happens. You eat at 7pm, you log it at midnight. By then, the app would stamp it as "today" even though tomorrow had technically started.
So I built backdated logging.
Every meal and activity entry now has a "Logging for?" selector at the top:
— Today
— Yesterday
— 2 days ago
— Or a calendar picker for anything older
But here's the detail I obsessed over: if you log for a past date, a quiet message appears beneath the selector. "Logging for a past date may affect your streak calculations."
Honest. Respectful. No punishment — just transparency.
That feature took me an afternoon. With a traditional team it might've taken a week of back and forth on edge cases, stakeholder reviews, dev tickets.
I decided it was needed. I described it. I built it.
This is what AI-assisted building gives you — the ability to act on good instincts immediately.
Product people: what features have you wanted to build but kept getting deprioritised? I'd love to hear them. 👇
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