Shipped an RV app to the App Store solo. My “codebase” is really a 49k-line architecture doc.
Veteran, solo founder, Texas. Python was the only thing I learned and in grad school. Spent 5 months building RigSense (boondocking/off-grid RV app) with Claude doing most of the actual engineering. It’s live now.
The thing that made it work wasn’t prompting tricks. It’s one giant architecture doc with numbered sections. Every session is “read §101.3 and §77, build the schedule tab.” Every commit references a section. When I skipped that and worked from memory, Claude fucked up and shipped shitty code and broke functionality.
The wthing nobody tells you: be careful with granting api keys to Claude for GitHub. The thing deleted my code base once.
Took it to an RV rally in April to demo with a bunch of Airstreamers and they loved the idea. I still think it’s too complicated but my wife likes it.
Stack is boring on purpose — SwiftUI, Supabase, Cloudflare.
Happy to answer questions about the doc workflow. App’s called RigSense if you want to see it.