From a call for help to a CatSitter app

When a simple problem turns into a project with a purpose (and coffee).

It all started with something small: a call for help in a cat rescue group. Someone mentioned how hard it was to organize the cat sitters' visits: who goes where, at what time, and how to keep track of it all without getting lost. A simple idea, a real problem.

With no big plans (and a trip already booked), I opened the terminal and started playing with code. Two days later, the "toy" was a working prototype: a first version of a system that helps cat sitters organize their schedules and keep track of every visit.

I haven't published it on the app store yet, but enough happened to make it click. I created a developer account and started thinking about how to bring the app to iPhone, since everything was built for Android first.

Building a product wasn't the plan. But sometimes the best projects start like this: curiosity, a simple problem, and the urge to solve something real.

And with cats involved, it couldn't go wrong.

Originally published in Portuguese on this site.