Published on Aug 21st, 2025
Welcome back to my "Demolishing My Stack of Unfinished Projects" series! This week, I'm excited to share the story of how I transformed a simple chat idea into a fully-featured, production-ready real-time messaging application called CodeniChat (formerly Secret Chat Bolt).
Secret Chat began as one of those "wouldn't it be cool if..." moments. I had this idea for a secure, real-time chat application that could handle multiple rooms, user invitations, and password resets. You know the drill - you start with enthusiasm, then life happens, and suddenly it's been months with just a README file and some half-baked code.
But this week, I decided enough was enough. It was time to demolish this unfinished project and turn it into something I could actually be proud of. I started off with a short prompt into the bolt.new platform
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