topick Used AI

was getting ready to tear convex apart when i realized the number sync bug was just a missing early return, it's all fixed now though 😅

optimistic updates! there's a little bug where the wrong number flashes for a second, which i have to fix next

pending state!

kind of half rewrote everything??? the codebase is slightly less hellish to work in but there's still a lot of work to do...

spent a ludicrous amount of time trying to clean up the mess that is the logic right now and got... nowhere 😭 going to try again tomorrow with a fresh mind

some cosmetic changes

wanted to make a ton of performance/efficiency improvements but kept on hitting strange errors, so just did optimistic updates for now (rest coming later)

optimistic updates for changing your pick! things are nice and snappy now

better logic/styling for showing your pick

added the ability to see + change your pick

temporarily restricted to one pick, will later let you change picks

some more random behavior fixed, time for a ship!

somehow forgot to show the number of picks so i fixed that (lol)

you can now pick! kind of, anyway, i'll have to fix the broken behavior

you can now see & share! picking (voting) is coming next...

more cleanup 🥱 don't worry, i promise picking is next 🙏

did some more cleanup, things are looking shiny but there's still no way to vote so that's next

you can now create topicks, and they save to convex! next step is letting people vote

Ended up going with Vercel and Convex instead of GitHub Pages and Appwrite, so you can find topick here now: <topicker.vercel.app>

Deployment successful! It only took three commits fighting with CI 🤭. You can check it out now aarvinroshin.github.io/topick!

Create UI is done! Pretty basic, but I think it looks slick. Next step is running on GitHub Pages (link coming soon!), then Redis for some actual functionality.

Base shell ready... next step is getting it deployed and connecting to Upstash. I'm thinking GitHub Pages should be good enough.