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Building Buildhorn: Shipaton 2026 Week Three

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I am coming towards the end of my 3rd week working on Shipaton, and with that comes another chance to pause and update you on my progress.

Note: This is the 3rd post about my work towards shipping an app for the Shipaton 2026 hackathon. If you want to read from the beginning you can find the link to the first post here

As a recap I’m building a multi-layered application called Buildhorn so users can receive CI build failures on their phone. I’m using the following technologies:

  • Kotlin Multiplatform (Shared Kotlin Library, handles networking, file storage and business logic)
  • iOS App (iOS app built using SwiftUI, focuses on the UI layer and consumes the Kotlin Multiplatform library for its business logic)
  • Firebase Backend (An all-in-one backend using Firebase Cloud Functions for endpoint creation / webhook event handling, Firebase Cloud Messaging for push messaging and Firestore for backend persistence)

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