Quizzical Coders AI: LAUNCH V1

(Because another week, another post – and another excuse to brag that I’m still aiming to be a DevOps pro, not just a Full‑stack engineer.)

So, what’s this Quizzical Coder AI thing?

If you’re wondering, head over to the launch page:
https://aldrickb.com/introducing-quizzical-coders-ai-challenge-your-coding-skills-daily-and-rise-to-the-top/

TL;DR – it’s a web‑based quiz platform for developers. Designed to give you a quick daily knowledge refresh, with a little leaderboard spice to keep things competitive. I’ve got a ton of ideas for it, but right now, let’s just ship it. (I know, I know… nobody will actually play it. 😂)

Why bother with Quizzical Coder AI?

With my current skill set, this is the quickest “show‑stopper” I can build while still juggling a full‑time job. I’ve been thinking about apps that can generate MRR, but as someone who loves the code more than the cash, I’m still learning how to market a product that actually makes money. That’s on the horizon, though – the next app will aim to serve everyone.

While writing this, I’m also eyeing some fresh payment tech. It’s a bummer that I can’t use Stripe right now as a developer from PH, but hey, maybe that’s a story for another post.

Bottom line: Quizzical Coder AI is my latest playground. I’ve been deep in backend dev lately, and a web‑based quiz platform gives me a chance to build a full backend and infrastructure from scratch. I’m not ditching blockchain, but a pure smart‑contract project feels like a one‑liner in comparison. Deploying a blockchain app is just boom – my backend’s already there.

Supabase? Nah, I’m doing it the “old school” way

Honestly, I’ve never actually built anything with Supabase. I hear it’s great, so I’ll learn it eventually. For now, I’m sticking to the manual grind. It’s a good exercise, right? Keeps my tech muscles flexed.

My current backend favourite is Go. Node/JavaScript is still a close second, but Go just blew me away with its idiomatic style. I can read my old code next week and actually understand what I was doing—no head‑scratching. If only React and JS were that friendly… 😜

Where did I deploy it?

Speaking of keeping things tidy, shoutout to Coolify – the sponsor of today’s post, is what I wish I could say 😂. While building Quizzical Coder AI, I was hunting for a way to deploy all my apps from my own server without pulling my hair out. Manual deployment would be a nightmare as the app scales, so Coolify was a win.

You’ll hear a lot about Vercel or GitHub Pages, and that’s true. I get it. But just like I love manual‑transmission cars because I get to learn the mechanics, I want to know how everything works behind the scenes. So yeah, I went with Coolify.

Coolify gave me CI/CD integration – every push to main auto‑deploys. It even supports horizontal scaling, which will let me run my multi‑node servers efficiently.

Did I get N8N?

Yes! 🎉
Quizzical Coder AI needs daily quizzes, so I hooked up N8N (again) with a local AI server to generate fresh content each day. I know, if nobody reads this, Quizzical Coder AI might be as quiet as a library. So I added bots to keep the app feeling alive. If you ever check out my projects, you’ll see it’s actually running – thanks to some bot‑magic.

What’s next?

For now, I’d love you to try Quizzical Coder AI. It’s free, ad‑free, and guilt‑free. Just create an account – use a dummy email, a goofy username, whatever. Your activity is all the validation I need, and I’ll thank you in person (or via a heartfelt comment). Don’t worry, I won’t spam your inbox.

This is version 1, and it’s fine for now. In the future, I plan to add coding‑based questions, personalized quizzes, and more. Stay tuned!

And stay tuned for my next projects as well.

Happy coding! 🚀