the problem
No method for Catholics to confess remotely. All confessional applications were focused on providing the guidelines as opposed to the experience.
A ChatGPT experiment at its finest. Confession[ai] is an AI chatbot that is prompted to be the user's Preacher and guide them through a traditional confessional with no judgment at all. The platform is built on React Native and is available only on Android.
No method for Catholics to confess remotely. All confessional applications were focused on providing the guidelines as opposed to the experience.
The process took way too long for the overall end result. I quickly became obsessed with making the UI perfect without outsourcing the work to professionals. It was my introduction to Google Firebase though. Which I now use regularly to build and scale small projects.
The fun part about this project was the marketing, and freedom or conversation. Similar to how GPT began to pick up steam, users would screenshot funny prompts or poems the AI wrote. This ai allowed you to share your deepest, darkest secrets with a return send who bared no judgment.
Building out the entire wireframes, from user experience to structuring the backend
Testing and training my AI to hold no judgment and display empathy when needed. Since we are dealing with religion it was important I prompted him with the right values as well.
Launching my first app on the Play Store was a learning experience. After 4 rejections I was finally able to identify my errors and go live with the application.
The relief that comes with an app approval is parallel to none. After 4 rejections I was able to get approved and begin operating on all Android phones.