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I never thought I’d be able to publish an app someday, especially because I’m not a Flutter developer and had almost zero experience building mobile apps before this.

A few weeks ago, I started experimenting with AI tools just out of curiosity. That slowly turned into late-night debugging sessions, broken builds, UI redesigns, backend issues, Play Store headaches, and way too many moments of “why is this crashing again?” 😭

What surprised me most is how much you can actually learn while building in public:

• product thinking
• UI/UX basics
• backend structure
• optimization
• release management
• and patience… lots of patience

The entire process felt less like coding and more like solving hundreds of tiny puzzles every single day.

Shipping version 1 gave me a completely different respect for indie developers. Finishing something is honestly harder than starting.

Curious to know from other builders here:
What was the hardest part of launching your first product/app/project?

Love this 🙃