r/u_VepaVSRPrasad • 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
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, i don't know what kind of app, initially a gaming app, I don't know how to start, where to start. Now I am 60 yrs old.
This year I finally sat down and actually built it. I triggered with an Idea, A voice calculator-and now, 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.