I'm a retired software engineer with 40+ years in the industry and, as software engineers often do, we write software to solve problems or fill gaps that existing applications do not address. In my case, I have a couple of hobbies that are not covered very well.
For example, I'm an amateur skater and when I'm preparing for a competition, I have a handful of print outs for skate dance diagrams for dances I need to learn for the upcoming competition. These are filled handwritten notes to remind me of goals and issues I need to address.
As an amateur French Horn player, I have a similar stack of sheet music that has its own set of notes as well as MP3 files I use to practice various excerpts.
Over the last two years, I've written custom applications that allow me to organize and manage these 'paper' copes as PDF files, create workbooks of music excerpts to allow me to play specific parts of the MP3 file when I'm practicing an excerpt, and annotate and manage them on my Windows notebook.
These applications worked well when I'm sitting in my office but not so well when I'm out and around so I started researching various application frameworks that would allow me to use these applications on my iPad or Android phone.
These applications are quite complex and I needed something that was more constrained to allow me to perform a reasonably rich evaluation of the frameworks to understand their capabilities and issues.
In the end, I decided a word guessing game fit the bill. It had interesting layout possibilities, could be self-contained, and avoid platform-specific problems that would distract from the evaluation.
The vast majority of my experience is with .Net and C# so I filtered the candidates down to those that allowed me to continue working with these technologies. After a couple of efforts with the frameworks, I ended up deciding on .Net Maui ( .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) | .NET (microsoft.com).
My first effort was a prototype for the WordSome game which also led to the idea of the Word Insights tool.
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