LifeMap: Building a Personal Growth Companion with Bolt 🚀

🌐 Try LifeMap Now!

This is a submission for the World's Largest Hackathon Writing Challenge: Building with Bolt.

🚦 Project Overview: LifeMap

LifeMap is a digital companion that helps users track their personal growth, reflect on their journey, and set meaningful goals. The app blends journaling, AI-powered insights, and a beautiful, easy-to-use interface to make self-improvement accessible and engaging.

⚡ Why Bolt? How It Changed My Development Process

Bolt – AI-powered Website and App builder

Before Bolt, my workflow involved using many tools. I often switched contexts and did a lot of manual setup. Bolt’s AI-powered development environment changed everything:

• Instant Context: Bolt understood my prompt, suggested improvements, and even wrote boilerplate for me.
• Seamless Sponsor Integration: Integrating APIs like Supabase for authentication and storage, or RevenueCat for subscriptions was easy with Bolt’s smart code suggestions and auto-completion.
• Faster Debugging: The AI assistant caught bugs and suggested fixes before I even ran the code.
• Focus on Creativity: With less time spent on setup and syntax, I could focus on designing features that matter.

📝 The Original Prompt: My Vision for LifeMap

I want to build a mobile-first journaling and self-coaching app called "LifeMap." It should help users log their emotions, decisions, and daily habits with a clean and minimal UI. The app should include: 1. A daily entry screen with questions like: - "How do you feel today?" (emoji/mood scale) - "What was your biggest decision today?" - "What habits did you complete?" (toggle-based checklist) 2. A dashboard to view: - Mood and habit trends (simple line/bar charts) - Journal log history (sorted by date) 3. A subscription system using **RevenueCat**: - Free plan: max 3 entries/week, no AI insights. - Pro plan: unlimited entries, habit tracking, and weekly AI summaries. - Use RevenueCat SDK and Paywall Builder to offer in-app purchases. 4. AI-based weekly summaries: - At the end of the week, generate a short summary using journal entries (mock this feature for now using a placeholder). - Include advice or insights like “You were more productive on Wednesdays.” 5. Coaches and teams can publish branded versions of LifeMap using **custom domains via Entri**: - Allow optional domain setup for Pro users to share their journal/coaching version (e.g., `coachjane.lifemap.app`). - Include a simple landing page builder for this. 6. Deploy the full app using **Netlify** with a clean, mobile-optimized design. Design should be elegant, minimal, focused on mental health & self-growth. Use soft pastel color themes, readable fonts, and accessible design. Please include: - A working homepage - Daily entry screen - Dashboard (with insights, history, subscription status) - Paywall screen (RevenueCat) - Settings screen (profile, custom domain option) Let’s build the MVP first, then I’ll add more features. 

🛠️ Technical Journey and Challenges

• Journaling with AI Insights I wanted users to write journal entries and receive meaningful feedback. Bolt helped me set up an endpoint to analyze entries using Dappier. It even generated a React hook for fetching insights.

// Example: Using the AI analysis endpoint in a React hook const { analyzeEntry } = useAIService(); const handleAnalyze = async (entry) => { const result = await analyzeEntry(entry); setAnalysis(result); }; 

• Authentication and User Data Supabase was my preferred backend. Bolt's AI assistant created the initial authentication flow and identified a subtle bug in my session handling.
• Subscription Management Integrating RevenueCat for premium features felt daunting, but Bolt's code search and helpful suggestions made it simple.
• UI/UX Iteration Bolt's live preview and component suggestions accelerated my design process. I could concentrate on user experience, not just code.

💡 Favorite Bolt Features

• AI-Powered Code Search: Find anything, anywhere, instantly.
• Smart Refactoring: Rename, extract, and refactor with confidence.
• Prompt Library: Reuse and remix prompts for code generation and documentation.
• Sponsor Tech Templates: Pre-built integrations for hackathon sponsors.

🤖 How AI Changed My Approach

I used to spend hours on Stack Overflow and in documentation. Now, I ask Bolt’s AI assistant for help. It provides context-aware answers, code, and even design suggestions. It feels like pair programming with a powerful teammate.

🤝 Sponsor Tech & Integrations

Building LifeMap wouldn’t have been possible without the amazing sponsor technologies provided through Bolt. Here’s how each one powered my project:

• Supabase: Secure authentication, user management, and fast database for storing journal entries.
• RevenueCat: Effortless in-app subscriptions and paywall management for free and Pro plans.
• Dappier: AI-powered real-time chat integration, enabling users to interact with smart coaching features and get instant feedback.
• Entri: Powered the custom domain and publishing system, allowing me to launch LifeMap at https://www.life-map.me/.
• Netlify: Fast, reliable deployment and hosting with mobile optimization and easy custom domain setup.

🏆 Final Thoughts

Building LifeMap with Bolt changed everything. I completed features quicker, learned new technology, and focused more on what matters: helping users grow.

If you’re thinking about using Bolt for your next project, go for it. The future of development is here.
Bolt – Create stunning apps & websites by chatting with AI

🌐 Try LifeMap Now!

Team:
Solo project

Thanks for reading! If you have questions about LifeMap, Bolt, or AI-powered development, drop them in the comments!