Student ships Mac & Windows app with Claude Code: what worked and what didn't
Comprehensive_Web279 · reddit · 2026-10-19
Business informatics student Julian shares a detailed retrospective on building StepGrab — a tool that turns recorded clicks into screenshot-based step-by-step guides — mostly with Claude Code. Key wins: separate sessions per platform, a feature-to-file map Claude queries before searching, the sosumi MCP server for real Apple docs, numeric diffs against the Mac build for the Windows port, and scripted release chores. The hardest part (ScreenCaptureKit capture of ephemeral menus) Claude couldn't crack alone. He also details App Store sandboxing vs. direct-download Accessibility tradeoffs.
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