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I created an iOS baby book tracker app with React Native

I created an iOS baby book tracker app with React Native

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Baby Book Tracker is on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. Download on the App Store Read more at https://babybooktracker.montalesi.dev/ Since before my son was born I was aware of the importance of reading to him. While browsing online I stumbled upon the 1000 books before 5 challenge and looked for apps that would help me participate in it. I found a couple but they didn't really satisfy my needs because many of the books that I own didn't appear when I tried scanning them and the app I was using wouldn't let me add my own. I decided to use Notion for a while but that was not the best UX and was not very engaging. My field of expertise is Enterprise SaaS, not really iOS development but with some help from GPT Codex and Claude Code I was able to quickly iterate and get a MVP done for my own app. This was my first time "vibe coding" an entire app from scratch and overall it was an interesting experience. I still had to do a lot of reading about React Native to ensure the LLMs were not

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