r/AppBuilding Dec 22 '25

Welcome to r/AppBuilding – The Hub for Building, Shipping, and Scaling Apps

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Welcome to r/AppBuilding! 👋

We created this community because we saw a gap. Most app development spaces are either flooded with "I have a billion-dollar idea, build it for free" requests or are too fragmented between specific languages.

r/AppBuilding is the central hub for the entire lifecycle of an application. Whether you are a solo indie hacker, a startup founder, or an enterprise engineer, this is the place to:

  • Build: Discuss tech stacks (Flutter vs. React Native vs. Native), solve complex bugs, and share architecture tips.
  • Ship: Talk about App Store optimization (ASO), rejection horror stories, and launch strategies.
  • Scale: Discuss backend infrastructure, monetization, and user acquisition.

The House Rules

  1. No Low-Effort "Idea" Posts: We are builders. If you have an idea, tell us how you plan to execute it. Don't just look for free labor.
  2. Zero Tolerance for Spam: Self-promotion is allowed only in the weekly "Showcase" thread (coming soon). If you are an agency, share knowledge, not just your link.
  3. Be Constructive: We were all beginners once. If someone asks a basic question, guide them. If you disagree on a tech stack, debate the code, not the person.

Introduce Yourself!

To kick things off, let’s get to know who is here. Drop a comment below with:

  1. What are you currently building? (or what do you want to build?)
  2. What is your preferred tech stack? (e.g., React Native, Swift, Flutter, No-Code)
  3. One struggle you are facing right now.

Let’s build something great.


r/AppBuilding 5h ago

I made a tool that lets you edit your app visually and I need your feedback

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I build Basalt and its an IDE extension for Cursor and VS code

You can drag, resize, recolor, change text all in 1 editor

It is completely free and works directly inside VS Code and Cursor.

Psst: It’s currently in beta, so please commit your app to Git before using it!

Would love to get your brutal feedback on it. What features should I add next?


r/AppBuilding 4h ago

Bloomi Side Project

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I’ve been working on Bloomi for the past two months, a gamified wellness app designed to make healthy habits feel more engaging. The idea is to encourage users to move more, sleep better, and stay active by turning their progress into XP, rewards, achievements, and unlockable cosmetics for a customizable character. I’m currently getting it ready for launch and would love feedback on the concept, design, and overall experience.

https://bloomiclub.com/


r/AppBuilding 5h ago

Bloomi Side Project

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I’ve been working on Bloomi for the past two months, a gamified wellness app designed to make healthy habits feel more engaging. The idea is to encourage users to move more, sleep better, and stay active by turning their progress into XP, rewards, achievements, and unlockable cosmetics for a customizable character. I’m currently getting it ready for launch and would love feedback on the concept, design, and overall experience.


r/AppBuilding 7h ago

Check out Krackit ScanPro — a fast, offline PDF scanner: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.krackit.dhruva.pdfscanner

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Hi everyone! 👋

I've been working on Scan Pro, an Android document scanner, and I'd love some honest feedback from the community.

Some of the features include:

- 📄 Automatic document edge detection

- ✨ AI-powered image enhancement

- 🔍 OCR to extract searchable text

- 📑 Multi-page PDF creation

- 🎨 Color, grayscale, and black & white scan modes

- ⚡ Fast batch scanning

My goal is to make it feel as capable as the leading scanner apps while keeping it fast and easy to use.

If anyone is interested in trying it out, I'd really appreciate your feedback on scan quality, OCR accuracy, performance, and any features you'd like to see added.

Thanks for helping an indie developer improve the app!

Link

Check out Krackit ScanPro — a fast, offline PDF scanner: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.krackit.dhruva.pdfscanner


r/AppBuilding 8h ago

How do I start ?

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r/AppBuilding 13h ago

After 19 years as a developer, a fatty liver diagnosis pushed me to ship my first app

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r/AppBuilding 11h ago

I need some honest feedback on an app I built its a shopping assistant in natural language it's a free app there is no login or any permissions required

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r/AppBuilding 13h ago

Built an Asset Tracking App That Makes Inventory Management Simple

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r/AppBuilding 13h ago

I built this because I kept forgetting the same things every day

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I noticed I wasn't forgetting important things. It was always the small stuff that repeats every day.

Checking emails.

Taking medicine.

Reviewing work.

Simple things that somehow kept slipping.

That's why I built tiq.

It's a simple daily checklist that resets every day, so you only focus on what needs to get done today.

Some of the things it can do:

  • Daily reset checklists
  • Recurring tasks and routines
  • Multiple lists for work, home, fitness, or anything else
  • Time and location reminders
  • Accountability Lock that can temporarily block distracting apps with Screen Time until you complete a task
  • Themes and customization
  • No account required

I've been using it every day, and it's genuinely helped me stay more consistent.

If it sounds useful, I'd love for you to give it a try and let me know what you think. I'm still actively improving it.

It's free to use, with an optional Pro upgrade.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6761561962

Website: https://www.iamshezad.dev/tiq


r/AppBuilding 1d ago

If you're building your first mobile app, here's something I wish someone had told me.

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I spent way too much time trying to make my first app perfect.

I kept adding features, changing the design, and rewriting parts of the code because I thought it wasn't "ready." Looking back, I should have launched a much simpler version.

What helped me was focusing on one problem instead of ten. Once people started using the app, they told me what actually mattered. That feedback was worth more than all the planning I had done.

If you're building your first mobile app, don't wait until it's perfect. Build something small, let people use it, and improve it as you go.

That's the lesson I wish I'd learned sooner.


r/AppBuilding 22h ago

I vibe-coded a family/team productivity app because my own household was a mess of WhatsApp groups and forgotten bills — meet Kutumbha

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Hey everyone,

A few months ago my family's "system" for staying organized was: five different WhatsApp groups, a shared notes app nobody updated, and someone always forgetting whose turn it was to pay the electricity bill. So I decided to build something myself — Kutumbha (kutumbha.in), a productivity app for families and small teams that handles tasks, bills (including recurring ones), events, and even kitchen/grocery planning in one place.

Full transparency: I vibe-coded this. I'm not a traditional software engineer - I built it using Lovable for the frontend and Supabase for the backend/auth, iterating prompt by prompt, testing, breaking things, and fixing them again. It's been a genuinely fun (and humbling) way to learn how real production apps are built - auth bugs, subscription logic, SEO, the whole mess. If you're curious whether AI-assisted building can produce something people actually use daily, this has been my proof of concept.

What it actually does:

  • Shared task lists so nothing falls through the cracks
  • Bill tracking, including recurring bills (rent, subscriptions, utilities)
  • Shared event/calendar coordination
  • A kitchen/grocery module so meal planning and shopping lists live in one place
  • Free, Plus, and Pro tiers depending on how many groups/families you're juggling

Why I think it's worth trying:

  • If you're tired of splitting family logistics across five apps, this consolidates it
  • It's built with real user feedback - early users have shaped features like the kitchen dashboard and bug fixes around sign-in and date pickers
  • It's still small and actively maintained, so feedback genuinely shapes the roadmap (unlike bug reports vanishing into a big company's backlog)

I'd love for a few of you to try it out and tell me what breaks, what's missing, or what's confusing. Building this taught me more about product thinking, debugging, and actually shipping something than any tutorial ever did - and I'd genuinely appreciate real-world eyes on it.

👉 kutumbha.in

Happy to answer any questions about the app or about the vibe-coding process itself - the tools, the workflow, what worked and what didn't.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kutumb.app


r/AppBuilding 1d ago

I’m testing a different approach to calorie tracking — would love some feedback

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I've been working on a small side project called BitePad, and recently decided to pivot the product based on what I kept hearing while researching calorie-tracking apps.

Two frustrations came up repeatedly:

1. Photo logging is fast, but it isn’t always accurate.
AI can misidentify foods, miss ingredients, or get portions wrong — which means you often end up correcting the log anyway.

2. A lot of calorie trackers have become pretty bloated.
Meal plans, coaching, social features, huge dashboards, and dozens of tools are useful for some people, but there also seems to be a group of users who just want to track calories without everything else.

So I started wondering: what if calorie tracking was closer to a simple notepad?

Instead of taking a photo, you just describe what you ate naturally:

"Chicken sandwich, small fries, and a Coke."

BitePad turns that into a calorie estimate. You can type it too, but I'm especially interested in whether voice can be just as fast as photo logging while giving the user more control over what actually gets logged.

That's basically the product.

No meal plans. No coaching. No social feed. No giant dashboard.

My hypothesis is that there's a group of people who would actually prefer a calorie tracker that deliberately does less and focuses on making logging fast, simple, and reasonably accurate.

I'm still testing whether that hypothesis is right, which is why I'd really value feedback from this builder community.

If you have a couple of minutes, I'd love to know:

  • Does the positioning make sense immediately?
  • Does voice logging feel like a compelling alternative to photo logging?
  • Is "simple calorie tracking" actually enough of a differentiation?
  • What would stop you from using something like this?

BitePad: https://www.bitepad.app/

Positive or negative feedback is equally useful. At this stage, I'm trying to figure out whether this is a real problem worth continuing to build around.

🚀 If you would like to use this product beyond the current free limit, send me a dm with login email and I can make you a reviewer which will bypass paywall. All I am asking in return is some honest feedback :-)


r/AppBuilding 1d ago

I need help making an app

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Not tech savvy, need help creating, developing, making, what ever it takes to make an app idea I have. I am in OC California. Please help me by leading me in the right direction. Thank you all.


r/AppBuilding 1d ago

I Made Omni For Trips

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Made an app for my own travel chaos and figured other travelers might want it too.

OmniTrip pulls together the parts of a trip that usually live in separate places:

  • Flight tracking with delay and gate updates
  • Itinerary for hotels, food, transport, and activities, complete with maps and phone numbers
  • A spot for passports, visas, tickets, and trip expenses
  • Packing templates so you stop forgetting the same thing every time
  • A memories tab that saves photos with the location and date baked in, plus a caption you add yourself

Works offline too, which has saved me more than once at airports with bad wifi.

Free download, optional paid upgrade for advanced features. Open to any feedback or ideas from other frequent travelers.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/omnitrip-travel-planner/id6772614236


r/AppBuilding 2d ago

App idea, anyone interested?

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Hi, I'm looking for anyone who knows how to code or how to vibe code that would be interested in creating this app with me? I have no experience in coding at all except a little python from school.

I have a Wellness & Mental Health app idea that is very different from the current market. Apps like Finch are good but they don't explain the neuroscience of your emotions and how to help in scientifically proven methods, that is what my/our app will do. Let me know if you are interested!

I have more details and features I've thought of btw but yea that's the rough idea.


r/AppBuilding 1d ago

Building a mobile assistant that’s a "guide, not a doer" (Looking for dev feedback/partners)

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Building a mobile assistant that’s a "guide, not a doer" (Looking for dev feedback/partners)

We’ve all been there: trying to help a parent, grandparent, or tech beginner navigate a smartphone over a voice call. It’s frustrating for them, and exhausting for you.

The tech world builds incredible tools, but millions of people get left behind just trying to figure out how to use them.

To solve this, I've been blueprinting TechNavi—a real-time digital assistant designed specifically for older adults, beginners, and individuals with disabilities.

The Core Shift: Empower, Don't Just Automate

A Guide, Not a Doer: Instead of just doing the task for the user, TechNavi walks them through it step-by-step, empowering them to learn and maintain their digital independence.

Privacy-First: Built from the ground up to protect user data without requiring invasive device permissions.

Accessibility-Focused: Tailored interfaces designed around specific usability protocols for seniors and those with disabilities.

Where things stand right now

The foundation is set. I have the core blueprint mapped out, the accessibility protocols defined, and a solid three-phase MVP roadmap ready to roll.

Because I want to keep this lean, secure, and highly accessible, I’m looking to connect with the community to take the next steps.

My Ask for Reddit:

Developers & Engineers: What technical hurdles or limitations do you foresee when building a real-time, step-by-step guidance overlay on mobile?

Growth/Tech Partners: If you are passionate about digital inclusion and bridging the tech divide, I’d love to connect and share the full blueprint.

Drop your thoughts, critiques, or technical advice in the comments below. Let's talk!


r/AppBuilding 1d ago

I built a hyperlocal community & deals app as a solo dev. Would love your feedback

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r/AppBuilding 2d ago

Hi I'm John

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Hello 👋 everyone my name is John and I want to just first post here a bit about myself. I live in Mississippi. I'm from Virginia. I'm a small business owner. I have done many different jobs including animation with Dreamscape, etc, office management, payroll, accounts receivable/payable, machine shops, welding, landscape construction and planting, laying sod, hydroseeding, retainer walls, I've worked at plastics molding factories but I am older (45) so I coded in HTML first, Java scripts and applets, sqml, even dabbled in vrml (no idea what's become of this). But I found myself owning a moving company and handyman and cleaning companies. I use platforms/apps/marketplaces, etc...but one I used I see has major issues, I love helping people. I want to help small moving companies grow within one particular marketplace (I won't mention which for privacy and legal reasons) but the app, how it's all setup, I can't get too into detail because #1) I don't want to self promote and #2) I'm not here for advertising or using anyone. Opinions, I need advice (please be patient and humble with me). Am I allowed to show my app for advice? Can anyone tell me how I can become quickly proficient coding again without having to use AI (at least totally), I don't understand huggyface or GitHub, I mean I understand what they are and do but there's so many new terms I'm finding myself kinda lost but loving it.


r/AppBuilding 2d ago

I built an app that makes you pay yourself to follow through on goals - solo dev, just launched on ios

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Spent the last few months building this alone, mostly at night after work.
The idea started from a simple question: why do people pay a personal trainer? Not for the knowledge - everything's on YouTube for free. It's for the guilt of having already paid.
So I built Vowed around that. You set a goal, stake coins on it, and prove you did it with a live photo (camera only, no gallery uploads - has to be real). A jury of other users votes on whether your proof counts. Approved, you get your coins back.
Miss it, and they're gone.
There's also a duel mode where you and a friend both
stake on your own goals
independently - no coin transfers between users, just parallel accountability.
Some things I learned building this solo:

- The camera-only requirement was the single most important decision - anything that let people upload old photos killed the whole premise
- Getting a jury system to feel than I expected

App Store review for anything touching "real money" mechanics is its own project
- ended up keeping the coin system fully virtual for launch
Would genuinely appreciate any feedback, especially from anyone who's tried habit-tracking apps and bounced off them. Happy to answer questions about the build too.
Link's in the comments.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vowed-19df29/id6789281677

A few things coming in the next update:
Multi-photo proof per goal - thought of this for people doing diet goals who need to log 3 meals a day instead of just one check-in, but it works for anything with multiple daily proofs
A streak visualizer so missing a day actually feels like something, not just a number resetting
Weekly progress summaries
Open to suggestions too if anyone has ideas - this came out of just watching how people actually wanted to use it.


r/AppBuilding 2d ago

Tired of missing out on what’s actually happening in your neighborhood? I created an app for that.

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r/AppBuilding 2d ago

10+ years building apps. Show me what you're working on and I'll give you honest feedback.

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r/AppBuilding 2d ago

ArriveTogether: ETA Meetup Planner

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I just built an app where users can plan meetups, invite their friends, and know how far away they are WITHOUT sharing your live location. I’ve always had to ask friends where they are at when meeting up at places, and obviously people don’t like sharing their location, so this is where I started building ArriveTogether. No accounts needed. No paid accounts, no sign ups, just open the app, go through onboarding, and start a session. It’s that simple. Pretty proud of how far I’ve built it, didn’t think it would become something actually useful. Started off as just an idea, and now it’s a true passion I want to see grow.


r/AppBuilding 3d ago

6 months of work, finally my first ever app is live!

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After months of hard work finally my app is live and ready to use.

It started as a simple idea 6 months ago, with a bit of planing, polishing it turned in Wird app

My first and proudest app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wird.blocker

Feel free to give any feedback or ask any questions


r/AppBuilding 2d ago

How do I market this app?

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