Is there a term for building apps meant for personal use?
I have zero interest in publishing anything I build to an app store. But will gladly share code on Github.
Ideally, I could find others to [1] learn from them and [2] share with them. My hope is a community of self-coders (?) already exists - I just don't know how to find them... Yet
@ShmosKnows Dogfooding? Although it's mostly for use in pre-production contexts, like quality assurance.
This is (close to) the model I use for my development container and its `upgrade` tool, my custom-built URL shortener, and probably a couple other things I can't remember off the top of my head.
I also have some public-facing apps (Bodacious and LucidLog). I don't use Bodacious a lot because it's buggy especially on Linux, but LucidLog I use all the time.
Blake is LucidLog a personal log/journal?
@bayport @ShmosKnows It's intended primarily as a dream journal (thus the "lucid" part of the name), although it could be used as a regular day-journal as well, since most of the basic functionality of both is shared.
Maybe I could have it use the date as a fallback title 🤔
@ShmosKnows
You might want to look for "self-hosting."
And for health tracking purposes, check out Heedy. It is intended to be run privately and the devs are friendly.
Shaun (he/ him)
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