I shipped my first iOS app in 30 days for $300. Here's the build log.

I take a lot of screenshots. The article I'll read later. The recipe I'll cook on Sunday. The movie name from someone's Instagram story. A job post, a product, a tender.

Most of them die in my camera roll.

So I built Chista — an iOS app that auto-imports every screenshot, classifies it with AI (Article, Product, Event, Reference, Media), and surfaces a one-tap action: Buy on Amazon, Add to Calendar, Reserve on OpenTable, etc.

It shipped on the App Store thirty days after I started, for about $300 in total cost. The interesting part wasn't the app. It was what the build revealed.

What I built