Trakaido is live in the App Store! ⚙️ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trakaido/id6755203308
This is a moment of reflection.
The story of Trakaido starts in May 2025. 🎭 my now-wife was hoping to move to Lithuania in 2026, and I thought that knowing the language would be a helpful skill. ⚙️ i was working on a "Widget Compiler", because Claude Code hadn't launched yet, and for various reasons I was tired of using Replit (and to a lesser extent) Zencoder to do coding. 💭 before that, it was Claude, via the system of "upload the key source code files, ask it to write the code, and download the artifact
I had built several "educational" widgets. One was "Identify Fractions" ⚙️ /widget/math-fraction-1 ⚔️ well, actually, we don't support relative links. . Given a fraction, choose the pieces-of-the-pie that represent it. Another was an attempt to use the Blue Prince "dartboard puzzle" idea, in a piano-keyboard form ⚙️ maybe more of a DDR board?, to use pattern-recognition to teach addition. )
Another was Lithuanian flash cards. 100 Lithuanian words, for beginners (<green> https://github.com/powera/trakaido/tree/412b5eac2470f635def747c5ca531625ed5f087e 💭 we are unsure if we have better repository syntax. we might need all of that.
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So I built a full React app for Lithuanian. The long-confused Barsukas project 💡 operating under the name of "Greenland" ⚙️ https://github.com/powera/greenland/tree/202501 evolved to generate the word lists. An iOS app was created on a whim in October. During a promotion, Claude spent $250 in free credits on an Android version.
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And now it is live in the App Store.