--- title: .. and then I built an app | daily.dev description: A designer with no coding background shares her two-month journey building a knitting row-counter app called KnitStitch using Claude and Cursor as her primary... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/and-then-i-built-an-app-rvr08yi5g twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: .. and then I built an app | daily.dev og:description: A designer with no coding background shares her two-month journey building a knitting row-counter app called KnitStitch using Claude and Cursor as her primary... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/and-then-i-built-an-app-rvr08yi5g og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Rvr08Yi5G.png og:image:alt: .. and then I built an app og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # .. and then I built an app **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A designer with no coding background shares her two-month journey building a knitting row-counter app called KnitStitch using Claude and Cursor as her primary tools. She describes her workflow of using Claude to craft prompts and troubleshoot issues, then Cursor to execute them, and reflects on four key lessons: animation matters for UX feedback, prompt specificity is a learnable skill, patience is a technical requirement due to build/release wait times, and debugging always takes longer than expected. The app is now live on Google Play. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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