I'm a DevOps/Cloud engineer, 6+ years in the field. My world is Python, Bash, Linux, CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure — not mobile apps. Last October I started building a parenting app ( ParAI ) with a small team — though in practice, I handle most of the development myself. No funding, no big team.

7 months later: the app is live on iOS and Android, has 90+ blog posts, supports 11 languages, runs a NestJS backend with AI features on top. I have two kids (3.5 and 1.3) so my coding window is basically 9pm to midnight after they're asleep.

I had zero React Native experience when I started.…