Sophomore at UMich, built an app with my dad
Details
- External ID
- 46593695
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- Sophomore at UMich, built an app with my dad
- Website domain
- workjourney.ai
- Launched
- Jan. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.461133069828722
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Over the past three months, I’ve been working with my dad on this app as a way to learn Cursor, shadcn/ui, and Next.js. I’m currently studying UX design at the University of Michigan, and I’ve been really impressed by how much vibe-coding tools have advanced over the last six months.This work journal includes private AI-generated insights with scheduled summaries that can be shared with your team or manager. You can also choose to make a summary public—like I’ve done here for my work on this web app:https://www.workjourney.ai/summary/mkblt2zt-hn2kdbusIf anyone has feedback or suggestions on how I could improve my design or coding skills, I’d really appreciate it.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai developer tools and coding assistants
- Vertical
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- Function
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- Audience
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- AI stance
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- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
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- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The author already built this with Cursor, Next.js, and shadcn/ui; it is a standard web application that accepts user work logs and sends prompts to Claude to generate skill summaries.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Inconsistent backstory claims (intern vs. working with dad), Public link returns 404, LLM-generated landing pages look generic/default
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 51 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #32 of 52 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 75 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.