After months of side-project work, I just released v1.0.0 of Anime Tracker — a self-hosted desktop app to manage your anime list. Here's the story of how I built it and the technical decisions behind it. Why I built this I wasn't happy with existing anime trackers: MyAnimeList : ugly UI, cloud-only, full of ads AniList : better UX but still cloud-dependent and limited customization Spreadsheets : zero features (no notifications, no recommendations, no search) Existing self-hosted alternatives : either abandoned or too complex So I decided to build my own. Local-first, no ads, clean UI, with features I actually wanted. Tech stack decisions Why FastAPI I considered Flask, Django, and FastAPI.…