A year ago I built my first app. It took 1,723 commits.
It was an inventory management app called Stckr.
You'd stick a QR code on something you own, scan it, and your phone would pull up the manual, the receipts and when it was next due a service.
I worked on it for 81 days.
Nearly half the commits were fixes, and I rolled the whole thing back 66 times when something broke.
Getting a scanned QR code to open the app on the right item took weeks.
Getting Google sign-in to work took 34 commits over two days.
Today I could build it in an afternoon.
I wouldn't swap those 81 days though.
Doing every piece by hand taught me how apps actually fit together.
A year later I've launched my first profitable product, and I'm about to hit £1,000 MRR for the first time.