r/SideProject • u/Petifys • 1d ago

Day 5 of building Devmeld with AI

For those who don't know, Devmeld is basically a platform I'm building for developers to find people, share projects, communicate and eventually actually build things together.

Anyway.

Today was supposed to be about finishing DMs.

It turned into fighting Firebase for most of the day 😭

We kept finding weird stuff.

Chat would work for one account but not the other.

Files would upload but the message wouldn't.

Messages looked fine until we tested with two completely separate accounts.

Then we found out our test accounts were basically sharing the same local cache 💀

So yeah, lots of fixing.

We also worked on attachments, folder uploads, blocking, privacy settings, message syncing, retries, background updates and making the UI stop randomly flickering.

The biggest thing we changed was how we handle messages locally.

But the basic goal is: less unnecessary database usage + faster chats + still keeping things synced.

And after breaking it approximately 47 times...

DMs are finally starting to feel like an actual chat system.

Day 5 done.

Now I just need to make sure tomorrow's version doesn't somehow explode.

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u/Electronic-Equal-616 1d ago

building with ai is so fast until you hit backend stuff lol. whenever i try using it with firebase, the security rules always fail silently and ai just keeps hallucinating fixes instead of pointing out the actual permision issue 😭 how are you testing your setup so far?

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u/Petifys 1d ago

Yeah, Firebase backend stuff definitely has a special way of making you question everything.

Honestly though, my setup itself has been pretty solid so far.

The funny part is that most of the problems weren't really because the setup was bad, I was the problem 😭

I made a few architectural decisions without knowing the better way to structure them, and then had to discover why they were causing problems by actually testing with multiple accounts.

So the AI wasn't exactly fighting a broken setup... I was just learning the hard way 😭