I play guitar. I'm not great. I know heaps of songs, but theory? Not really my thing.
One day I was sitting there jamming around on the blues scale when an idea hit me ... a way to finally learn all the notes on the fretboard. It's something I'd been meaning to do forever, but always threw in the too-hard basket. Couldn't be bothered, honestly.
I told my lovely wife Jen about it, raced upstairs, and started generating code.
What started as a simple fretboard trainer quickly snowballed. I was already using the microphone, so I thought ... why not build a tuner? And then I started thinking about everything you actually need to learn guitar. Scales. Metronomes. Chord libraries. Progress analytics. Before long, I had a full web app on my hands ... and it was actually pretty sick.
Then came the next thought: this would be way better as a mobile app.
I'd never built a mobile app before. So naturally, I went all in.
Word of advice ... if it's your first app, probably avoid building one that relies on microphone input, frequency detection, and real-time audio processing. But hey, I got there.
And that's how Rippin was born. It has every tool I genuinely believe will help someone learn to play guitar. The journey was massive, and I'm stoked with where it landed. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did building it.
Early mornings, late nights, and long hours on weekends ... that's been my life building Rippin. Time I would normally spend with my family.
Jen, Chanel, Jazzy ... thanks fam. I love you all more than you will ever know. 🤘❤️
