Longtime lurker, first time OP. Apologies if it's poor form to post your own writing. I was motivated to write by an HN comment to the Fiplab guys a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2979091
Sure it's a stupid app, but you learned so much and had fun. When you have an idea for your next stupid app the whole process will seem so much easier.