DEVLOG 1

 What am I even making?

(btw for the people who have seen my previous projects, I have recently started to use markdown to make better devlogs than my previous ones to make it more readable and presentable instead of giant paragraphs, and more humorous about my pain for the enjoyment of reading, hope you enjoy!)

Welcome to IndoorGPS! The idea is pretty simple:

Take a picture of a map of a building, like a mall, university, or basically any place with an indoor map and have AI analyze it and turn it into an interactive map.

The goal is basically Google Maps, but for individual buildings.

You could type something like:

“Take me to Room 204”

…and IndoorGPS would figure out where Room 204 is and give you directions to get there. Eventually, I want it to work with things like hallways, rooms, floors, entrances, stairs, elevators, and more.

Sounds pretty straightforward, right? Yeah. About that. 💀

My original plan was to spend about an hour getting the basic project set up with Expo + React Native.

That was… optimistic.

Instead, basically my entire dependency setup decided to collectively explode. I spent way long than the 1 hour that has tracked by Hackatime on this devlog.

Packages weren’t cooperating, dependencies were fighting each other, and Expo/React Native were doing their best impression of a brick wall. Every time I thought I had finally fixed something, another issue showed up.

At some point I was no longer developing IndoorGPS. I was developing node_modules.(btw that is a folder in a react native project that has dependencies)😭

I spent WAY longer than expected just getting the environment into a state where I could actually start building.

So yeah… the first devlog isn’t exactly “I built an AI-powered indoor navigation system.”

It’s more like:

“I successfully convinced React Native to let me use React Native.”

And honestly, I’ll take the win. 💀

What’s Next?

Now that the project is actually running, I can finally start working on the interesting part. I have added a bottom navigation bar as shown in the picture attached.

The next big goal is designing basic UI for the AI stuff and map.

For now, though, I’m just happy my dependencies aren’t actively trying to destroy me.

And if you are here and you finished reading, tysm really means a lot!