Devlog #03 – Almost There 🤍

Hey everyone ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

ReFlow is almost ready to ship. This project has been a journey – kinda more personal than anything else I’ve built on Stardance.

What came easily

The onboarding flow with localStorage fell into place quickly. Name your addiction, set your reason, and it just works. The SVG river with the dark background, algae, and fish was surprisingly smooth to build – I had a clear vision and the code followed. Deploying to Vercel and hiding the API key with environment variables went way smoother than I expected.

What fought me

The AI companion was a pain. First Gemini gave me CORS issues. Then OpenRouter rate-limited me instantly. Finally got DeepSeek working through a serverless function, but it took hours of debugging. The routing on Vercel also broke my links - pages kept redirecting to index.html until I renamed home.html to track.html.

Where it stands

The river is alive. The AI (surprisingly) listens without judgment. The timer ticks every second. You can name your addiction, track your days, and talk things through. Everything stores locally - no accounts, no tracking, no bullshit.

Shipping soon. A few more details to wrap up and ReFlow goes live.

Honestly, this one means more than Stardust. If it helps even one person feel less alone, it was worth every hour.

Hope you all like it 🤍