Thrive
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An AI-powered personal wellness app
THE IDEA
How far could I get building a real iOS wellness app with Claude as my only collaborator? No Figma, no handoff — just conversation and iteration. It's built around a to-do list, because that's how I actually live: every checkbox hides a moment of input without ever feeling like a form
WHAT I LEARNED
Prompting is a design skill. Specific intent beat open-ended requests every time — output quality mirrored the thinking behind the prompt.
Knowing when to simplify. When things got too complex for Claude to handle cleanly, stripping back to fundamentals beat pushing through.
Context management is the job. In long sessions Claude lost the thread — re-anchoring with summaries mattered as much as the prompts.
BUILT WITH
Claude · iOS prototype · 2026