Wrapped a ChatGPT bedtime story habit into an actual app. First thing I've ever shipped.
Background: IT project manager, never really built anything. Started using ChatGPT to generate personalized stories for my son at night. He loved it, I kept doing it, and at some point I thought — why not just wrap this into a proper app.
Grabbed Cursor, started describing what I wanted, and kind of never stopped. You know how it is. "Just one more feature." Look up, it's 1am. The loop is genuinely addictive — part sandbox, part dopamine machine. There's something almost magical about describing a thing and watching it exist minutes later.
App is called Oli Stories. Expo + Supabase + OpenAI + ElevenLabs for the voice narration. Most of the stack was scaffolded through conversations with Claude — I barely wrote code, I described it. Debugging was the hardest part when you have no real instinct for why something breaks.
Live on Android, iOS coming soon (but with Iphone at home more difficult to progress on :D).
Would be cool if it makes some $, but honestly the journey was the fun part. First thing I've ever published on a store, as someone who spent 10 years managing devs without ever being one.
here the link on play store for those curious, happy to receive few rating at the same time the listing is fresh new in production: Oli app.
and now I'm already building the next thing....