I started developing BibleApp around 2020-2021, I don't quite remember. I originally started punching out the python code for a command line bible search program on a big ‘ole hp probook. It was slow and clunky but had an awesome keyboard. I'm not really sure what exactly gave me the idea to code this app. I think it was just something easy enough but challenging enough to be fun. After all, it was just basic text file processing and printing to the terminal.
Later I added colors to the terminal and then one Christmas I found a crappy GUI library pysimplegui and quickly whipped up a graphical bibleapp. In the next year I made a second version with a couple more features like search range and made the window resizable. I also made a website with a download button linked to a shared google drive so other people could download it. The website was horrible because it was hosted on a free provider, using a free domain name(bibleapp.rf.gd), and had to use Google drive for the download. Ideally I would have put the installer file on the same server as the website but the free hosting provider had a file size limit.
About a year past and I made a linux version with the pysimplegui library and then actually switched libraries and started using tkinter. It performs much better but looks ugly. I am currently considering switching to PyQt. Anyways, I then used Chatgpt to make me a new download website. I tried at least 20 times and most of its results were ok but not as good as I wanted. I coded up the finished result using Chatgpt’s version as a sort of template/starting point. I'll have to admit, it looks better than what I could have designed and certainly better than the old website. Chatgpt though, made a lot of mistakes along the way, like not centering things and totally missing the point when I tried to explain something complex.
In the future I hope to add more features, if I have the time. I'd like to add different Bible translations and dark mode. Let me know if there's a feature you'd like! I have other apps and projects at joshreimer.ca if you'd like to take a look.