Life & fun · February 10, 2024
Ascent, a Christian habits tracker for Lent
Hey HN! This is my first iOS app. I built it because I was curious about SwiftUI and wanted to learn by doing. Since Lent is around the corner, I thought I'd share it with you. It has also been hunted on PH today: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/ascent I relied heavily on ChatGPT to build it, and honestly it was quite frustrating at times. The best part of building the app was to do it in public, as I shared regular updates on X and ended up having amazing conversations.
Ascent, a Christian habits tracker for Lent launched on February 10, 2024 with 8 votes, #1,589 of 3,962 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
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My first iOS app hit the Apple App Store this week. Hurray! I built it in less than two months without prior knowledge of Swift and SwiftUI. The catch? I relied heavily on AI to get me started. It was a fascinating experience because I learned while doing it. The long debugging sessions are where most of the learning happened. During the first few days, I was copy-pasting without fully understanding what was happening. Okay, that's an exaggeration here. I've been programming for a while, so I obviously had an idea of what was happening. While I don't believe that I could have built a complete app from scratch without any programming knowledge, I'm still amazed at how far the AI got me. The…from ggnotes.com
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