Hi y'all,

first time poster, long time reader here! Actually out of motivation to help my sister out with generating a gallery for her photos, I shipped an app not long ago. Haven't really marketed it much yet, but trying to spread the word now haha.

I actually had a lot of fun writing the app. I initially got motivated thinking that using Claude Code I could whip the app out in a weekend (blogged about that, too: https://hannes.kaeufler.net/posts/gallerymagic-20-years-late). That was _somewhat_ true, I got _an_ app done in a weekend, but obviously nothing close to what I have now. Overall by now, Claude Code is only a tiny speck in the contribution graph.

Anyway, the app is written in Swift, SwiftUI (~4k LoC), was using Rust internally at some point (https://hannes.kaeufler.net/posts/shipping-rust-on-macos-app...), and to publish galleries to the web there is an AWS powered infrastructure. I used Pulumi for the first time and reasonably enjoyed it (for infra code that is haha).

As usual, shipping is hard, design is harder, and marketing is hardest. Let me know if you have any questions, happy to chat about it!