First-time dev builds a full learning platform in ~35 hours with heavy AI assistance
Dry-Dragonfruit-2159 · reddit · 2026-09-11
A German private-security professional moving into adult education shares his first real software project: Wachklar 2.0, a learning platform for German security qualifications (§34a, GSSK and more), built from idea to working product in 35 hours.
- Status: The §34a module is most complete — learning objectives, texts, questions, practice cases, flashcards, exam simulation, error analysis, progress tracking and adaptive recommendations. Multi-tenant structure with roles for admins, trainers, editors and learners.
- Engineering: PostgreSQL-based, with auth, RBAC, tenant separation, CSRF protection, optional 2FA, backup/restore and audit features; 56 automated tests passing plus a real Chromium E2E test that caught a bug unit tests missed.
- Transparency: Heavily AI-assisted — his role is defining product and requirements, reviewing implementations, and testing, not writing code from memory.
- Next: Security and data integrity first; experimenting with detecting changes in official legal sources; commercialization still open.
A concrete data point that AI lets non-programmers ship real products with solid engineering practices.
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