Mastodawn

A nonprofit I am a member of needed a very small PoS app, and I spent two weeks looking for something open source that could work offline, allow us to gather some analytics, and work on an android tablet.

Everything I found was either too complex, online, paid, not android-compatible, and it pissed me off.

So.

I used my knowledge of Tauri and Svelte, and tried coding something with Claude Code.
We tested it on android today.
It works flawlessly.

I'm pissed.
I hate that.
I just hate it.

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Alex Rock 5d ago

Don't get me wrong: the org is thrilled that after 10 years they finally have a real solution that works better than GDrive or paper.

But it took me a few days to complete it.
Before that, it would've taken weeks.

And I *KNOW*, trust me, I *KNOW* that companies will use this to kill the industry, to lay off people, ship code faster, and decrease quality a huge lot.

My app isn't 100% tested, and it's offline.

Now, imagine with all the apps in production, handling critical data.

I'm pissed.

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Melroy van den Berg 5d ago

@pierstoval but now it's you that can actually open source and publish the app for free on the play store.

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Alex Rock

@melroy I plan on doing that, but only when I'll have a sufficient test suite, and app will be translatable.
Not a big deal, but if the app passes the crash-test of our big event in a few weeks, I'll do that.
It can be automatized, apparently, so... good :)