Day 137 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added PDF support to the editor. You can now upload PDF files directly into your notes and keep them alongside your text, images and other content.

Day 136 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added internal note links. You can now link one note to another and jump between related ideas much faster.

My prediction is that a big portion of vibe coders (tourists) will disappear in a couple of years because the problem was never about coding. AI made everything easier but it didn't make easier to build a business. You still need patience, marketing, distribution, risk tolerance and the ability to work for years without making any money. The unspoken truth is building something is boring, slow, lonely and uncertain. Not everyone is built for this. I think in 3 years we'll be back where we started. AI will be more powerful but the people who keep building real apps will still mostly be programmers and founders.

Day 135 of building Grape, an AI note taking app I've started using Fable 5 and it's unbelievable. I asked it to make me an infinite drawing canvas and 20 minutes later I got this. Zoom in and out with pinching and pan with two fingers.

Day 134 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added a link feature where you can give links to the texts. Also implemented undo/redo buttons so you can take back when you make a mistake. Now I'm working on a drawing feature. Need to find a good React Native drawing library.

Day 133 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Spent the whole day implementing voice recording. It ended up being a mix of Lexical, WebView, and native audio. Had a hard time with Opus 4.8 so I switched to GPT 5.5 to create a bridge between native code and WebView.

Day 132 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Started working on tables. I think tables are one of the hardest components to build in a text editor. I don't see it very often in every notes app. Also migrated from Supabase to my own VPS to cut the costs for the future.

I just learned SSH Tunneling and my life is changed All of my life I was making MongoDB or PostgreSQL public in the production server just to be able to connect from my local computer Now I just do this and I can connect Postgres from my Mac ssh -L 5433:127.0.0.1:5432 user@ip

Day 131 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added image support to editor. Now I can tap the image button to pick images from the gallery. Also added drag & drop support so I can press and hold an image to move it anywhere.

This chart looks like Mount Everest :)

Hot take: The greatest technological advancement in all human history is AI. Imagine having this technology 500 years ago. You have a box that answers all questions. Nobody would believe you. Everyone would think you have special powers. You could even create a new religion.

Day 129 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Spent too many hours to integrate Lexical Editor and it was a really tough job to make it performant. Is this a good way to render rich text in React Native?

3 months ago I launched the beta version of Grape's desktop app. Then I started working on the mobile app. But my main business started struggling. So for the last 2 months I stopped working on Grape and put all my focus there. Today out of nowhere I got a notification from Stripe says I got the first ever subscriber. MRR is $19 I couldn't get happy because I was still not in the best place mentally because of everything else going on but this gave me a little push. Time to start building again.

Day 128 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Started working on the search page. When you tap search button it slides up from the bottom. I thought it would be cool. Search is also very fast since everything runs locally on your device.

Day 127 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added dark mode and it actually looks really good. Also added a move button for notes so you can send them to another folder with a nice bottom sheet.

Day 126 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Spent the whole day making notes open much faster. Did some caching and switched note rendering to flashlist. Now whether a folder has 30 or 3k notes it opens super fast.

Day 125 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added swipe to delete feature for notes and folders. Swipe left to delete and deleted notes go to the recently deleted folder.

Is DigitalOcean (FRA1) down for everyone else too?