Achievement Chains is a small Rails app for turning Steam achievements into routes you can follow. Instead of staring at one huge, flat achievement list, you can build or follow a chain: a path of milestones, notes, and goals for a game, synced with your progress from Steam.
Why chains? Some games have hundreds of achievements, and it's not always obvious what to do first, what depends on what, or how to reach a final goal without getting lost. Chains make that journey more visual and a little more intentional — you can make your own, share them, and track progress through the achievements in them.
Postgres and Valkey run on the same EC2 host as Moments' database, managed by the same Ansible playbook rather than a separate setup per app.
The source is open, at jane-natucci/achievements.
Community goals, saved or followed chains, favorites, comments, feeds, and better social features around achievement hunting in general.
This was my first app built with the help of AI — from scaffolding out the Rails app to working through the Steam API integration. TODO: write more about that development journey.