alt Hacker NewsI made a fun app to share text information with your friends in a persistent, pretty format. You compose a text message, choose fonts and colors (or keep defaults), and save and/or share it via text message, etc. I realized after the fact I was basically recreating Instagram's text creation feature in Stories lol.
It's called "Hey Hannah" because it was inspired by my friend Hannah asking me for travel tips for her family's first trip to Japan. I had a few texts worth of thoughts I wanted to persist -- and prettify -- so I could share them with others in the future, too.
I personally find saving screenshots of text messages to be an unreasonably effective way of saving information. I can search by text in the Photos mobile app and share directly from there.
This was my first coding project with AI. I used Cursor and mostly Claude to write it. I had no mobile dev experience, but I did have 10 years of webdev experience, including five with React, so it was a relatively smooth process. I got a great feel for what to let Claude do and how to work around its limitations. For example, I made a secret expanded palette of background colors (and a slightly different secret palette for text), and Claude choked on sorting them by brightness -- so I made a test to check the outputs and then had Claude write a helper function to sort them client side. Good times.
I am officially converted to writing code with, at least, the assistance of LLMs. I'd love it if folks could download the app and give me any feedback they may have. It's open and free in all the ways and I collect no data!