Hello World,
After struggling away with virtual machines, I’ve built (by built, I mean, harassed Claude™️ into writing almost ALL the code for) an app to help me design a mono-pivot suspension bike on a Mac, with some idler options.
i’ve never used GitHub before, but I think this file hosting arrangement should work? if it doesnt and you know why, or if you have any important/strong recommendations, maybe DM me? I’ve tried to just upload a zip of the app direct to the forum but no luck, but iin either available download (follow the link) there should be; a) all the source code (i used Xcode, maybe you can too) , b) a licence, and c) an actual copy of the published app that /should/ simply run on a modern Mac, (im on an m3 processor running Tahoe 26.2, and don’t know my way around.)
i’ve built one app before ever (edit, that was a lie, i’ve built three, but never released one,) so this is probably pretty ropey, im trying pretty hard to release this under an AGPL-3.0 licence you can read here. My intent and understanding is that under this licence people can use this to work from and build off it, but they must credit the work done so far, and they must publish it all openly under these same rules.
this licence is pretty language heavy but the intent is for people to feel pretty free to open and mess around with this, and if they develop something, then they share it all too, I guess with notes? i think its good practice to put the notes up the front in each .swift files code, though I might be completely wrong about this.
I guess im sharing this and hoping this is handy for someone else, or even inspires someone to build off it, try adding a feature etc, fix something i’ve missed etc. ideally a bit of input might build this into something pretty useful, but like, Im totally guessing, Claude is hallucinating, and we’re all busy right?
Mono-pivots FTW ( for now at least, I guess).
The code might be pretty bad, but im hoping the app its-self is pretty intuitive to use; its pretty basic. note one thing that may not be immediately clear, is that you can save a design as a pretty basic (JSON) file type and then open it later.
yours in endless frustration,
Pat
NB: edits for clarity.
