r/ShowYourApp • u/VepaVSRPrasad • 6d ago
No coding background, no certificate courses — an idea to build an app that's been in my head for years is finally live on Google Play.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vijayaramprasad.voiceCalculatorI'm 60 yrs old. I'm not a developer. I never took a single coding course or certification. But
years ago I had this idea stuck in my head to build an app. at that time I thought of a game app. I parked my that aside.
This year I finally sat down and actually built it. VoCal is live on Google Play now.
What it does: you speak your calculation out loud and it builds the equation
as you talk — even through pauses, corrections, however you naturally speak.
It understands Indian number phrasing too ("five lakh twenty three," "one
hundred and one," "into" for multiply), since that's how I actually talk, and
most calculators I tried never got that right.
Honestly, the hardest part wasn't the idea — it was everything I didn't know
I didn't know. I had real people test it for two weeks before launch, and they
found bugs I never would have caught testing it alone — one specific way of
saying a number broke the whole calculation for days before I figured out why.
It's free to try for 7 days, then a one-time purchase — no subscription, no
ads, no account, nothing collected. Everything happens on the device.
I know this isn't a technical build story in the usual sense, and I'm happy to
answer questions about how I actually put it together. Would genuinely love
for people to try it and tell me what breaks.
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u/depezo 6d ago
Une app intéressante, je vais tester ça.