Devlog #1 – SchoolPool

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Got all ten core features built and the app running on the simulator this week — creating and finding rides, booking seats, live ride status, chat, ratings, trip history, the works. Wired up the Firebase backend too and deployed the security rules and indexes, then seeded a fake school with a handful of rides so the discovery feed actually looks alive instead of empty.

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Hit one wall: I’m still on Firebase’s free plan, which won’t let me turn on Cloud Storage, so the student-ID verification upload just errors out — there’s literally no bucket for the photo to land in. The code itself is fine, it just needs me to upgrade the plan. For now I’m skipping verification by flagging my test account as verified directly in the database.

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So the whole ride flow is working end to end and looks the way I wanted. The one broken piece is broken for a billing reason, not a code reason, which I’ll take. Next up: upgrade the plan to light up Storage + push notifications, then grab real screenshots for the App Store.