Inspiration
What it does
How we built it
Challenges we ran into
Accomplishments that we're proud of
What we learned
What's next for Bugcatcher
Inspiration
As an indie developer, I often found myself spending more time understanding projects than actually improving them.
When returning to an older project, I wanted a tool that could immediately tell me where I left off, what the project really contains, which parts are strong, which parts need attention, and what risks or hidden issues exist. I also wanted to explore public projects and quickly understand their architecture, assets, features, and development decisions without manually digging through thousands of files.
That idea became BugCatcher.
What it does
BugCatcher is a truth-first mobile project intelligence tool for Flutter, Flame, and VBA projects.
Instead of overwhelming developers with raw code, it analyzes a project and presents evidence-based insights about its structure, technologies, assets, navigation, health, risks, project evolution, and overall architecture.
It also allows developers to compare projects side by side, helping them understand feature differences, identify strengths and weaknesses, and make better development decisions.
How I built it
During OpenAI Build Week, I used GPT-5.6 to help plan the architecture, refine product decisions, and break the work into focused development phases. Those plans became precise implementation tasks that I executed with Codex.
The result was four major implementation phases together with extensive polishing, testing, and refinement, turning BugCatcher into a much more capable developer tool.
Challenges
One of the biggest challenges was ensuring that BugCatcher reports facts instead of assumptions.
The application uses a truth-first approach, distinguishing verified information from inferred or uncertain findings, so developers receive accurate insights rather than misleading guesses.
My goal is to help developers spend less time understanding projects and more time building them. Also, I see bugcatcher as a mobile project passanger. Wherever you go, your project are with you trough bugcatcher, so are your ideas. Anytime, anywhere, load a project, inspect, and enjoy with ease.
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