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WeiQi - (Go) game based productivity tool

SS — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:43:27 +0000

💡 Inspiration

Modern to-do lists are often endless, anxiety-inducing scroll-fests. They treat productivity as a sheer volume of output, leading to burnout. We wanted to fundamentally change how people perceive their daily schedule by treating time not as a list to conquer, but as a board to master.

Having always been fascinated by games in general, and ancient games in particular, we found the inspiration in the ancient strategy game of Weiqi (Go).

In Weiqi, the board is finite, players place stones with deep intention, and the goal is to gracefully claim territory.

We realized that timeboxing is simply the modern equivalent of this.

Your day is the board 🏁, your tasks 📋 are your stones ⚫⚪, and deep, uninterrupted focus ⏱️ is how you capture your territory 🚀

We wanted to build an app that brings the tactile, satisfying, and intentional strategy of Weiqi to everyday productivity.

📋 What it does

WeiQi is a highly tactile, gamified timeboxing dashboard that turns your daily schedule into a strategic game of focus.

🏁 The Daily Board

Your day is visualized as a beautiful wooden grid of 24 hours (rows) and 5-minute intervals (columns).

🗒️Tactile Planning

You drag unstructured tasks from your Inbox onto the board. Upon dropping them, they morph into connected "White Stones," visually reserving that territory for future work.

⏱️The Execution Loop

When real-world time catches up to a scheduled task, the app's analog clock smoothly morphs into a Pomodoro timer.

⚪ The Tasks ⚫

White stones represent potential/ pending tasks—they denote scheduled tasks, planned breaks, or incomplete work. Solid Black stones represent conquered territory—deep, uninterrupted focus.

🏯 Capturing Territory

As you work, every 5 minutes of unbroken focus triggers a satisfying 3D animation, physically flipping a White Stone ⚪ to a solid Black Stone ⚫. You don't just check a box; you visually conquer your timeline.

😥 Identifying Distractions

If you stop a timer before the 5 minutes are up, the stone simply remains White. A timeline scattered with White stones visually represents a fragmented day lacking deep focus, making invisible distractions painfully visible.

☑️ Mapping Peak Focus

The Macro Heatmap with Monthly cum Weekly View auto-aggregates your daily Black Stones, generating a beautiful, zoomed-out Weiqi board that serves as a heat-map of your peak productivity 👩‍💻hours.
It also aggregates white stones denoting your peak distracted 😥 hours.

🚀 How we built it with MeDo

How we structured conversations with MeDo to build the project ?

We built the project up in phases step-by-step using multiturn chats.

In phase 1, we built Foundation and The Game Board Layout with ToDo list inbox, Game Board with other elements added like wooden clock, pomodoro timer, dashboard

In phase 2, we implemented the Drag & Drop "Playing the Stones" mechanics for the Daily Board where tasks from to-do lists transform into tactile "White Stones" on the grid.

In Phase 3, we implemented the logic of The Timer and Capturing "Black Stones"

In Phase 4, we built up The Big Picture (The Macro Weiqi Game) which introduces a toggle switch to transition from the daily planner to a zoomed-out, auto monthly grid (Days vs. Hours). This read-only board automatically translates the focused time (Black Stones) earned in the Daily View into a visual heatmap, allowing users to see their macro productivity trends at a glance.

The most impressive feature MeDo helped to create

The most impressive feature MeDo helped create was the automated monthly board.

How you used plugins or API integrations to extend functionality ?

This was the game changer. It helped me create beautiful UI elements by taking inspos and also realtime sync using supabase

🧩 Challenges we ran into

The most challenging part was again coming up with an interesting idea. We brainstormed a lot to finally arrive at this awesome idea of building something that lets you conquer your time.
I was initially worried about credits - but the MeDo team was generous enough to provide daily bonuses to cover the entire project comfortably. The most impressive thing was, in case we encountered error - MeDo corrected it without using extra credits which helped us comfortably complete the project.

🏆 Accomplishments that we're proud of

A completely novel application of WeiQi as a productivity tool

📝 What we learned

Building with MeDo is easy as a breeze

⚓ What's next for WeiQi

Adding more exciting planned features, including AI based time analysis.

The Mahjong Method

SS — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:58:52 +0000

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💡 Inspiration

In the era of games, learning has become a chore!

We realized that millions of students force themselves through tools like Anki or Quizlet, while simultaneously spending hours effortlessly clearing puzzles in games like Wordle or Candy Crush. We asked ourselves: What if we could completely disguise studying as an addictive puzzle game?

I have fascinated by the ancient Chinese puzzle game of Mahjong !

So tada !

Flashcard 🃏📚 meets Mahjong 🎮🧩 !

Because learning 🧠 should be fun 🎉 !

The most addictive way to master anything.

Play your way to Perfect Recall.

Your brain deserves a game!

We took the universally satisfying, tactile mechanics of Mahjong Solitaire and fused them with a dynamic learning engine. The result is a tool that tricks your brain into studying by replacing the dread of learning with the dopamine rush of winning.

📋 What it does

Mahjong is a gamified educational platform that transforms boring study notes into a 3D, playable Mahjong Solitaire board. Instead of matching traditional bamboo or dragon symbols, users match educational pairs—like a Spanish or Chinese word to its English translation, a chemical symbol to its element, or a math equation to its answer.

Users can play through curated starter decks, create their own personalized decks or use our AI Deck Creator to paste in their own class notes, which the app instantly parses and reverse-engineers into a perfectly solvable, multi-layered puzzle.
Add in a speed-timer and you have an engine built for intense, high-speed active recall.

Perfect for

🌍 Learning new languages

📚 Studying for school exams

💼 Memorizing job skills and professional terminology

Fun educational games for kids

🎯 Engaging study tools for easily distracted learners

🤝 New employee training and company onboarding

🚀 How we built it with MeDo

How we structured conversations with MeDo to build the project ?

We started the project as a simple mahjong solitaire game.

With multiturn chats, we built up the app from there.

Once the game engine was in place and the game logic was perfected, we added the request to build a deck builder so that users can create their own pairs for the game.

Then we asked MeDo to add some cool templates users can explore.

Once templates styles were optimal, we requested for a UI, UX improvements.

Lastly we added the most impressive feature using large language model (llm) plugin / skill

The most impressive feature MeDo helped to create

The most impressive feature MeDo helped create was an AI Mahjong builder chat tailored to user's learning or fun requirements.

It elevated the project from a manual lesson cum game generator to something that speeds us creating the lessons / experiences in seconds instead of minutes.

This was done in multiturn chats leveraging the large language model (llm) skill plugin

We also optimized the app for full stack deployment.

How you used plugins or API integrations to extend functionality ?

This was the game changer. When I discovered the plugin / API / skill integration, MeDo helped me create the entire AI chatbot functionality in just one turn which elevated the mechanical app to a truely intelligent study buddy / tutor.

🧩 Challenges we ran into

The most challenging part was coming up with an idea. I brainstormed a lot to finally arrive at this awesome idea
I was initially worried about credits - but the MeDo team was generous enough to provide daily bonuses to cover the entire project comfortably.
Also, the model was very efficient. It hardly took a 100 credits to build an entire website in first turn.

🏆 Accomplishments that we're proud of

The fullstack web app that is truely intelligent, a learning buddy, a gaming buddy and an awesome idea

📝 What we learned

Building with MeDo is easy as a breeze

⚓ What's next for Mahjong

Adding more exciting planned features