Mohammad Shamma's Page

Vocalize

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Vocalize is a diary I’d dreamed about for years — and one I could only build now. The idea was always the same: a journal you simply talk to, that quietly makes sense of what you said over time. For a long time it stayed a daydream, blocked on two hard problems. LLMs cleared both. They let me prototype and build the app far faster than I ever could have alone, and they finally made the core feature possible — turning rambling, spoken entries into summaries worth reading.

Trip Escrow

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The idea came from my longtime manager at Google Wallet, who mentioned that he and his boyfriend liked to surprise each other by secretly planning trips to different places. I loved it, and wanted to do the same with my wife: our birthdays are about two months apart, so we could each plan a getaway for the other — with one rule, that we don’t both pick the same destination.

Minesweeper by negfeed

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I was tired of mobile games buried under ads, and I wondered whether Claude Opus could help me build one that wasn’t. It could — with a lot of high-level steering from me — and Minesweeper by negfeed is the result: the timeless logic puzzle, rebuilt from the ground up for touch, with no ads, no tracking, and no data collection.

Tap to reveal, long-press or swipe to flag, pinch to zoom, and line up tricky taps with a floating loupe preview; auto-zoom, auto-pan, and chord support keep big boards manageable on a small screen. Play the classic Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert boards or dial in a custom difficulty, with a configurable undo system (unlimited, three charges, or off) so you decide how forgiving each game is. Wins come with haptics, sound, and confetti, and everything saves and resumes automatically with persistent stats and high scores. A short interactive tutorial gets new players started, and it runs on iOS 17 and later, plus Mac and Apple Vision.