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Praying For You Community

A native mobile experience for sharing prayer requests, praying for others, and returning to the prayers a person has carried.

Shared prayer feedCreate prayer requestVerse of the day
Platforms
React Native app for iOS and Android
Foundation
Expo, Firebase, structured product and release review
Status
Private beta testing on iOS and Android

The origin

A simple idea worth revisiting.

The product began roughly fourteen years ago as an Advanced JavaScript course project: leave a prayer request and pray for someone else's. The concept endured, but the original web prototype was not built for modern mobile use, scalable data, identity, privacy, moderation, or app-store release.

The rebuild

From learning prototype to real product.

The current work reframes that original idea as a calm native experience with a shared feed, request creation, anonymous display choices, prayer details, prayer history, and daily verse content.

Original Praying For You JavaScript web application

The original application

The course project established the core idea years before the current native mobile rebuild.

The PSS proving ground

Product, design, engineering, and release readiness stay connected.

Define

A focused MVP and explicit future phases keep the first release centered on the core prayer experience.

Build

React Native, Expo, and Firebase support one product direction across iOS and Android.

Review

Product, UX, engineering, security, QA, privacy, moderation, and release readiness are reviewed before public beta.

Current app screens

The core experience taking shape.

Shared prayer feed

Shared prayer feed

Create a prayer request

Create a request

Anonymous display choice

Anonymous sharing

Prayer detail

Prayer detail

Prayers prayed for

Prayers prayed for

Verse of the day

Verse of the day

Current outcome

A working native app now in private beta.

The rebuild has a functioning core experience, Firebase-backed capabilities, release assets, and a structured readiness assessment. Private beta builds are active on iOS and Android, with controlled testing underway before broader availability.

What it demonstrates

AI accelerates execution, but judgment owns the release.

AI has supported research, planning, implementation, review, and documentation. Human decisions still define the product, determine what evidence is sufficient, set the safety and quality bar, and decide when the app is ready for real people.

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