I Built a Solana Tip Jar

I’ll be honest. When I started this I had no idea what I was doing. I knew some Solana basics. I’d read the docs, watched a few YouTube videos, nodded along like I understood everything. But actually building something? That was a different story. So I set myself a challenge. Build a real dApp. Deploy it. Make it work. No tutorials holding my hand the whole way. I chose a tip jar. Simple concept connect your wallet, enter an amount, send SOL to someone. How hard could it be? Very hard as it turns out. But I got there. Why a Tip Jar? Because I wanted to build something real but not overwhelming. A lot of beginner Solana tutorials have you building things that are either too simple to be impressive or too complex to actually finish. A tip jar sits right in the middle. It involves real wallet connections, real transactions, real money moving on a real blockchain. But the logic is simple enough that you can actually understand every line of code you write. If you can’t explain what your co