Ji Kim

Stopped waiting. Started building.
Figuring it out as I go. Building in public.
Making ScanMyPills 💊 — medication clarity app
Waiting hurts more than failing.

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@SeoulJosephK LFG~~~🔥🔥

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First time at MAU! Curious who is at MAU? Lets connect 🙌🏻🙌🏻@mauvegas_

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@ashen_one Super helpful and excited to try things out! I am almost at a place where I need to revamp the design. Cant wait!!

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I'm pretty new as a builder, and on X. I follow many builders out there. and...

People are shipping things I never thought were possible. Ideas I didn't know could become a product.

Just wanted to shout out to all the builders, thank you, and keep shipping!

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54 downloads!! LFG🔥 Probably 15 are my friends being supportive 😅

But 39 strangers found my app and gave it a shot, that's the number I'm holding onto.

Small wins. Keep interviewing, fixing, building... Paywall coming soon.

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@ammarsaber_dev Will do 🫡 realizing now that distribution is everything haha another part to learn!

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"Got rejected. Fixing and resubmitting."

That was January post, stopped posting after that…
Rejection after rejection will do that to you.

Then earlier this month, submission 11.
ScanMyPills is on the App Store now!

So many back and forth with Apple…
Just kept going. LFG!!

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@juliadziesinska Literally 🔥

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@imuratalpay I got mine up 3 weeks ago.. the feeling that you get after waiting for it to get approved... freakin amazing yet now I am realizing that building is the easy part 🤣 Marketing and Sales is next!

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@measure_plan even dying is hard haha NICE!

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@cinamarina Same boat 🙌🏻 lets keep going 🔥

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@audrlo I need to for my grandma in Korea. My family is currently using one of those pet watcher device to monitor her.

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I’m a designer who learned SwiftUI and shipped my first iOS app on the last day of 2025.

Update: It got rejected. I’m fixing it and resubmitting.

Learning to ship an app was a dream of mine last year, and I want to pass those learnings forward!
#BuildingInPublic

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On the last day of 2025, I submitted my first iOS app to the App Store.

ScanMyPills is now in review.

Four months ago, I couldn’t code. I learned #100DaysOfSwiftUI, with help from AI + a mentor, to build something real for caregivers in my family.

2026: #BuildingInPublic LFG🚀

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@benln Still early but trying to launch before year ends!! Please add me 🙏

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@youngkangdesign @iamhyeonsulee @ycombinator 🔥LFG~~🚀🚀

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Project 20: SnowSeeker

Built a ski resort browser optimized for
- iPad with split-view navigation.
- Search resorts
- View adaptive layouts
- Tap facility icons, and
- Save favorites with persistence.

#SwiftUI #100DaysOfSwiftUI #buildinginpublic

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@hermanhaidin LOL I didn't know what that was and typed it and thinking what...in the hell hahah

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Project 19: HighRoller 🎲

Built a dice rolling app to wrap up
Users can pick dice type, roll multiple dice, animate the results, and save history with JSON.

Reminded me of MapleStory when you first create your character. (iykyk)

#SwiftUI #100DaysOfSwiftUI #buildinpublic

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Project 18: Layout & Geometry 📐

Learned how SwiftUI lays out views:
Parent → Child → Parent layout flow
GeometryReader for size + position
Coordinate Spaces (Global, Local, Custom)
Modifiers wrap views...order matters!

#SwiftUI #100DaysOfSwiftUI #buildinpublic