How To Say No

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  Step 1 - What's the ask

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  Step 2 - Asker's name

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  Step 5 - Optional reason for "no"

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  Step 3 - Your relationship to the asker

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  Final - Output of possible responses

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  Onboarding Questions

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  Generating interstatial

Inspiration

My own people pleasing tendencies

What it does

Uses a series of guided questions to generate various responses that you can copy/paste to someone when they ask something of you that you do not wish to do.

How we built it

SwiftUI for the frontend, golang for the backend. Frontend mostly coded with cursor and backend mostly hand coded.

Challenges we ran into

I've never written a mobile app before, so I had to not only learn swift, but also the entire ecosystem/process around releasing an iOS app.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I managed to dive in to a whole new skillset in my 40s and see the project to fruition

What we learned

How to build and release an iOS app from start to finish

What's next for How To Say No

Seeing if it gains any traction and maybe adding community features or AI coaching

Built With

• claude
• cursor
• docker
• golang
• swift
• xcode