For years, my weeks blurred together. Wake up, work on some side project, forget it existed, repeat. I’d finish a year and have nothing to show for it except a folder full of half-built apps and a coffee habit that was getting slightly out of hand.
This is the story of how 52weekx went from a personal attempt to stop wasting my weekends to hopefully something cool others can use.
Where It All Started
The original idea wasn’t glamorous. It wasn’t even meant to be an app. It was just me trying to stop the weeks from evaporating.
I made a little spreadsheet. Each row was a week. Each week, a new activity. I did “weightlifting”, “rock climbing” and I would see if any of my friends wanted to join me.
My friends kept asking what I was doing each week. So I built a tiny webpage where I could share the list. It was meant to stop them asking me the same question repeatedly.
Then a few people asked how they could get their own version. And that was the moment where the simple idea became my next side project.
Turning it into an App
The funny thing is that 52weekx only started because of a small problem: I had too many projects. I spent so much time building things that I had no time to live.
So I made an app… to help me stop spending all my time making apps.
The irony is spectacular.
Once I started playing with the idea, it stopped being a static web page quickly. I didn't want to waste time developing an full native app as it would take too long. I made the decision to make the app a PWA instead; it just fit what I wanted from it, simple and lightweight and quick to launch. I got obsessed with developing the app and it took much longer than I anticipated. I knew I needed more people on board, but only if they believed in it.
Team Grows
The turning point happened after a boxing class. Me and Ozzy were sitting outside, absolutely wrecked, and I showed him the prototype I’d been building. I expected a quick “nice one”, instead he immediately started firing ideas at me. Design, flow, etc. He decided to jumped in, and help out with the designs.
From there the team formed naturally. Kevin joined to help me out with development work. Then Frank came onboard as the backend mind, to help out with the backend.
What started as a simple spreadsheet became a proper team effort, a small group of friends building something we genuinely believe can make life a bit more interesting.
Where We’re Heading
Honestly, we have no idea where this will go. But the whole thing began with one goal: make the year feel more memorable, one week at a time. If the app helps even a few people do that, then all the late nights and rewrites were worth it.
