What did I do?

In 2022 I spent 10 months in my spare time making a puzzle app with a company from Norway. The app is based on a puzzle where you have a new puzzle every day. Hence the name "A-Puzzle-A-Day". This puzzle is made by a company in Norway called DragonFjord. And together with them I launched the A-Puzzle-A-Day app in the first week of November 2022.

How did it all start?

In January 2022 I was scrolling on the social media platform Tiktok when I found a video of someone solving a wooden puzzle. I was directly intrigued since I puzzle a lot myself. So I started searching online who made the puzzle and found the website of Dragonfjord. On the site they were selling the puzzles and they had a contact form.

So I wrote a message saying who I am and whay I do, and within a day I got an email asking if I would like to have a video call with them.

What did I learn?

In this 10 month periode I learned to communicate and work together. This was not something similar like a school project, which I've done dozens before. Since I was working with someone else I had to make sure we were both on the same path as eachother. Because if we were not on the same path I would code something and then had to change it later since it was not the thing they had in mind.

The team and I sent over 813 emails to eachother, and still counting. Currently we're working on adding QOL changes and preparing for Version 2.