The first Android app I ever created, Receptappen ("The Recipe App" in Swedish … I know, I am not particularly creative) was entirely with my one mind and competences; I had taken a 3 weeks Kotlin class via Udemy, and took it from there. Learned MVVM, words like repository and asynchronous, had to design visuals all by own lonesome self and some Stackoverflow threads. I still use the app till this day for the shopping list feature and creating weekly menus.
When it was time again to create an app to solve my own problems, I have my new bbf the LLM tools to help me out. MyVaxCard app as an idea came to me while back after taking the TBE shot and totally forgetting If had gotten the booster or not. I had way too many physical cards from different vaccination companies, and as a rather digital person that became a nuisance. And so the digital vaccine card app idea was born, and I kind of figured I was not alone.
Digital vaccine cards are not a thing in the EU, most probably due to legislation; if you handle patient data, there are quite a few hurdles to pass. If you, however, create an app where the user is responsible for and own their own data that becomes a non-issue.
It was an astonishingly easy and quick endeavor to first create an MVP, then a fully viable, sellable app in a week. Of course, that was made possible by previous learnings and a specific work flow for creating things (be it websites, or in this case app). I used my usual go-to-process of planning mode, tech stack choice, features design, UX/UI and how to handle data storage locally. You can check out the promo video on YouTube via this link.
Check it out and let me know what you think; I aim to create an Iphone when and if I get myself to buy an Apple product or rent a Mac in the cloud.