My first app, artisanally vibe-coded in 4 months

Description

Hi HN, I'm Jeroen, 49. Father of two, and manager in the Dutch government by day. Until last December I had never written a line of code. You get the picture. Since April my first app, TravElly, is live in the App Store. Normally during Christmas I tend to build something by hand. Last year I started in Terminal making simple kids games with Python. Then I got more ambitious and moved to Xcode for an iOS app. My wife and I were during this time planning a family trip to Japan and I wanted