u/JustinBuilt

I've been thinking about how differently language learners approach hour tracking compared to other skill communities.

In language learning there's already a culture of counting — AJATT,

immersion logs, CEFR benchmarks. People here actually care about the number in a way most communities don't.

I'm curious what everyone's actual tracked hour count is for their target language, and what you use to log it. Not estimated — actually recorded somewhere.

I'll go first: 250 hours of Swift, a coding language (TL). I track every session and the consistency chart is more motivating than any streak app I've tried.

What's everyone sitting at?

Most people with an app idea waste weeks going in circles.

They dump their idea into ChatGPT and get generic output. They start building too early and end up with the wrong features. They ignore monetization until it’s too late. Or they never start at all because they don’t know what step one is.

I kept running into the same problem building my own iOS apps — no consistent process for evaluating ideas, speccing them out, or knowing what to actually build first.

So I built a system.

It’s a sequential prompt workflow in Claude that covers the entire process:

1.	Idea generation — with viral mechanics and monetization baked in from the start  
2.	Idea scoring — kill bad ideas early before you waste time building them  
3.	Full product spec — build-ready output you can hand directly to a developer  
4.	Developer build thread — milestone-based architecture from day one  
5.	App Store optimization  
6.	Visual identity direction  
7.	Social launch plan  
8.	Client pricing system — for builders who take client work  
9.	Post-launch growth audit

Each prompt feeds into the next. Drop in a rough idea at Stage 1 and by Stage 3 you have a complete spec ready to build from. I’ve used this to go from idea to full spec and build plan in under 20 minutes.

Not random prompts. Not theory. A sequenced system with outputs you can actually use.

Happy to share any individual prompts if anyone wants to see how they’re structured.

Comment below or DM me for the full system!