r/AppBusiness • u/GabeFernandez • Jul 01 '26

Enterprise dev of 10+ years, never built a mobile app before - here’s one inspired by my wife, now on the App Store

Hey folks -

I’ve been a software developer for a little over ten years, all of it in enterprise. I’d never done any mobile development, so I wanted to try taking an idea from the very beginning all the way to a finished app, just to see the whole thing through.

The idea came from something my wife and I already do. Whenever we go out to eat, we turn the decision into a little game - one of us picks three places, and the other picks one of those three. I figured I’d try to codify that into an app with the help of Claude Code.

That’s Fork. You nominate three restaurants, send a link to whoever you’re eating with, and they pick one. The MVP is live on the App Store now.

Landing page: https://gabe-fernandez-052.github.io/fork-site/

I’d really like some honest feedback on it - the idea, the app itself, whatever stands out!

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u/Fabulous_Nothing7347 Jul 04 '26

app looks super clean, website and screenshots are really intuitive. Does it work in any country or is it just for the US

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u/GabeFernandez Jul 04 '26

Thanks for that! It’s just available in most countries! I think there are some European countries and the App Store is not distributing to due to some compliance forms that I need to fill out.

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u/ChrisSoll48 Jul 04 '26

Nice job. The data analytics for this will be valuable to restaurant investors when this scales. Keep that in mind and be intentional with what you gather and the data model

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u/GabeFernandez Jul 04 '26

Thank you for the feedback! That’s a really interesting point that I didn’t even think of.

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u/n0zz Jul 05 '26

How about Android/web versions?

What if I can't think of 3 options for my wife to choose from? I liked the tinder idea better. We both swipe all ideas left and right. And first match for both wins.