ChessNote

Chess Learning and Analysis App

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Inspiration

There are very less apps available for chess that too for free, some tools for professional chess players like Chessbase which is expensive and also is not available for android, webapp and macos.

What it does

ChessNote is an app for storing, analyzing chess games for professional chess players. Apart from that, I am also building an LMS system (not fully ready yet) for chess academies/coaches, where academies will be directly able to teach via the chessboard and provide homework/coursework materials instead of sharing them on groups.

How we built it

I had been very much confused building it's design however i took some inspiration from figma and made a design idea on my head and implemented the design in a way that it's compatbile with both mobile and desktop, the sidebar becomes the navbar on the mobile version. i took some help from chatgpt and claude to brainstorm prompts and design ideas and also the new bolt enhance prompt and discussion mode helped me a lot.

Challenges we ran into

There had been to many bugs while implementing the chess gameplay features and special rules like castling and en passant, apart from that notation and it's functionality had tremendous issues and I had lost a lot of prompts and time fixing it, had to hover over multiple sources and finally managed to fix it somehow.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Due to certain circumstances I was not able to start from the very moment however i still managed to build a working prototype of my product, I had too many bugs, intially I tried to use some opensource chess app/libraries for the chess game logic however I developed my very own, so I am proud of that.

What we learned

Building a free alternative to a monopoly app is challenging however, with using bolt I have been able to accomplish what would have taken me a year in just a few weeks. While AI can help a lot certain times or during certain bugs it will keep on looping which will need a human/experienced programmer intervention to atleast guide where the error is going.

What's next for ChessNote

There are still some bugs hovering over and I believe there is always a scope of improvement however the app is not fully enterprise grade. I plan to use the academy feature as an LMS for chess academies/coaches offering them a free plan and a subscription based model for the same and monetize the app for busiesses but keep it free (as much as possible for individual students/chess players)

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