I'm a digital-experience leader with just enough dev exposure to be dangerous. I wanted to push myself and try my hand at vibe coding — so I took an idea from concept to a fully functioning, shipped app on my own. The result: Bid Battle: Word Search War, a real-time competitive word-search game live on iOS and Android.
Race a live opponent to find hidden words on the board before the clock runs out. Every match is a head-to-head battle. Find words faster than your rival to win.
All the videos, art, music and sounds were created with AI-driven design and media tools.
I've spent my career building and optimizing digital experiences, working alongside strong engineering teams. I understood how web applications are built, I'd just never shipped one entirely on my own. AI changed that.
By leveraging tools like Google Antigravity alongside AI-driven design and media tools, I took Bid Battle: Word Search War from a concept to a fully functioning, monetized app all by myself.
It wasn't painless. There were plenty of wrong turns, hallucinations, and hair-pulling debugging sessions. I don't think I could have done it quickly without years of collaborating with engineers and knowing how applications are actually built.
• Product: Bid Battle: Word Search War
• Type: Real-time competitive word search game with tournament option
• Platforms: iOS and Android
• Build: Solo, AI-assisted vibe coding with Google Antigravity
• Scope: Full stack - design, app, backend, monetization, analytics
A genuine full-stack build, start to finish: design and brand, then everything it takes to actually ship and run a product.
Building the in-game multiplayer tournament mode was a big challenge. Anyone in app dev knows how critical testing is — so alongside beta testing with real people, I leaned heavily on AI.
I created lightweight AI agents to automate multiplayer tournament testing and accelerate QA. The agents simulate real player behavior in real time — joining matches, submitting bids and actions, and completing full gameplay loops concurrently.
How the agents work:
1. Built the agents as a local .js app using Antigravity.
2. Run my game on localhost in Chrome, create a tournament, and launch all agents at once via a PowerShell script.
3. Hit Start Tournament in the game — the bracket generates and a console window opens per agent, each logging its actions in real-time.
4. Python script (also built with AI-assistance) parses every log into a single tracking spreadsheet.
5. Review the spreadsheet to confirm everything worked, or review any issues found.
What's interesting is how transferable this is beyond gaming. The same lightweight agents adapt to:
• App onboarding flow testing
• eCommerce UX validation
• Conversion funnel testing
• Lightweight load testing
Cloud and data, monetization, and analytics — all wired together through a GitHub-based development workflow.
Real-time database powering matches, tourneys, game state, and player data.
Hosting and backend services for the live, real-time game.
In-app purchases and subscription management.
Ad monetization integrated into the game loop.
Event tracking, warehousing, and dashboards to understand gaming and monetization KPI's.
Version control and a development workflow tying the whole build together.
AI made it possible. Years of working alongside great engineers made it fast to ship. That combination is what turned a side-project idea into a shipped app.
