Well I am currently working on it! It is the Hashnode Mobile App. 😛

It's crazy awesome though. Things keep breaking / getting resolved with every update of React Native or Expo or the packages which we are using. But I guess that's what makes the experience even more fun. A couple of months into something challenging you realize just how much you have learned and how far you have come. 😬

Being part of the React Native community when the current version is 0.51 is a big thing for me. I love my job. 😅

Basically any personal project. lol

I use them all to test and increase my own skill set, and I take a very odd approach (much like the CEO of Netflix.) If it hasn't been done yet, and it's not "trendy" enough. possibly resulting in a loss since there's no proof that it will fail or succeed... I take it as a personal challenge to make it work.

My three "babies" right now are:

1. A social website that makes you "earn" your membership by proving your ability to be a part of it. It will grow at a rate of one new user per week, voted in by existing members. I'm going for a concentrated business model for this one, with the attempt to see how valuable it would be to have the equivalent of Facebook - that doesn't let people join and interact simply because they want to. You need to earn it.
2. A web site about video games, that is a creative community, which slowly reveals itself, through a gamified rewards system, as a web-based video game itself with a competitive nature to it.
3. The "sister" of the previously mentioned website. As the user base grows, and people show favoritism towards a type of video game, it then groups them as either "A" or "B" - and at the end of each month, user stats define an ongoing storyline/battle between both sites. Also, as a user starts to shift from their interest in a type of video game through interaction (ex. from liking FPS/RPGs 40%/60% to 55%/45%) their site starts to visually merge and become the other site - applying their stats and loyalty to their new allegiance. ;)

I worked on a dating app once

I laughed for 10 minutes when our product manager explained its business logic to me. Target audience of that app was orthodox Christians. You can only have heterogeneous relationship with it. Also it only allows one connection at a time.

Now the cool part is that there is an admin who precedes over everything in this app. Each time a couple gets connected, this admin watches it. This was the funniest thing for me. Think about another person looking in to what you’re doing in a dating app

The couple is given a set of prayers. After the prayers, parties involved are supposed to write down their dreams. Admin will read all these. Now at the end, if you feel you’re compatible with your partner and decide to take it to the next level, admin should approve of this relationship based on everything admin has seen.

I was awestruck to learn that such a business could exist and there will be people who’ll pay 100$ for signing up on it