{"channel":"trakaido","content":"Trakaido is live in the App Store! ( https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trakaido/id6755203308 )\r\n\r\n--MORE--\r\n\r\nThis is a moment of reflection.\r\n\r\nThe 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) )\r\n\r\nI 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. )\r\n\r\nAnother was Lithuanian flash cards. 100 Lithuanian words, for beginners ( https://github.com/powera/trakaido/tree/412b5eac2470f635def747c5ca531625ed5f087e ( we are unsure if we have better repository syntax. we might need all of that.)\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\nSo 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.\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\nAnd now it is live in the App Store.","created_at":"2026-03-31T16:46:18.283936","id":779,"llm_annotations":{},"parent_id":null,"processed_content":"

Trakaido is live in the App Store! \u2699\ufe0f https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trakaido/id6755203308 \r

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This is a moment of reflection.\r

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The story of Trakaido starts in May 2025. \ud83c\udfad my now-wife was hoping to move to Lithuania in 2026, and I thought that knowing the language would be a helpful skill. \u2699\ufe0f 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. \ud83d\udcad 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 \r

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I had built several \"educational\" widgets. One was \"Identify Fractions\" \u2699\ufe0f /widget/math-fraction-1 \u2694\ufe0f 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 \u2699\ufe0f maybe more of a DDR board?, to use pattern-recognition to teach addition. )\r

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Another was Lithuanian flash cards. 100 Lithuanian words, for beginners (<green> https://github.com/powera/trakaido/tree/412b5eac2470f635def747c5ca531625ed5f087e \ud83d\udcad we are unsure if we have better repository syntax. we might need all of that.\r
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So I built a full React app for Lithuanian. The long-confused Barsukas project \ud83d\udca1 operating under the name of \"Greenland\" \u2699\ufe0f 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.\r
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And now it is live in the App Store.

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