Dev Ships OTB Chess Tracker App, Compresses 5 Years of Work into 1 Using Claude
Key-Werewolf-6133 · reddit · 2026-08-07
An indie developer shared their over-the-board (OTB) chess tracker app, ChessGaze, built with Claude. The developer claims AI helped them achieve 5 years' worth of progress in just 1 year.
Available on iOS and Android, the app's core features include:
- Automatic game tracking and chess clock management
- Automatic notation recording with export to Lichess or Chess.com
- Detection of illegal moves, stalemates, and checkmates
- Online game review and fun voiceovers for piece movements
The author noted that while struggling with architecture alongside Claude 4.5 initially, the development experience improved significantly as the model progressed.
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