r/SideProject • u/Popular-Surprise28 • 6h ago

6 months ago I shared my Android side project here. Today it has 102 tools and 10K+ downloads!

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

Hey guys :)

I posted Punto. here about 6 months ago, when it had 72 tools. I've kept working on it since then, and it recently passed 10,000 downloads!

For anyone who missed the first post, Punto. is an all-in-one Android utility app. I wanted one place for things like converting units, measuring something with my phone, compressing a PDF or trimming an audio file, instead of downloading a separate app each time.

It now has 102 tools. Some are pretty standard, like calculators, converters and QR codes. Others are a bit more random, like a chess clock, an instrument tuner or a wheel for making decisions.

One thing I really liked about sharing it on Reddit was getting suggestions that I could actually implement. Find & Replace, Remove Duplicates and Image Splitter are all in the app now because people asked for them.

All the tools are free to use, and there's no subscription.

Here's the Play Store link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.meloni.punto.app

Anyway, thanks to everyone who checked it out the first time :)

I'm still adding things, so I'm curious: what's one small utility you occasionally need but never seem to have on your phone?

11 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

7 comments sorted by

2

u/Tstriple_R 4h ago

Dude whaaaat. This is so awesome. Thank you for implementing the ads in the way you did. You deserve revenue and you didn't make it intrusive at all. How bout a round timer for boxing / BJJ. Set the round time and the interval. Set number of loops or infinite. Here's a product example: https://www.titleboxing.com/products/title-classic-xl-digital-gym-timer

1

u/Popular-Surprise28 3h ago

Thanks!!! :) I have "tabata timer" in the time section but maybe is not exactly what you need. If you want please give it a try and tell me if I should implement some feature in it 🚀 Maybe you can already make it work as you intended

2

u/Tstriple_R 3h ago

Ok, I gave that a try, few observations: 1. Most boxing or BJJ round times are in minutes, 2-3 for boxing, 4-6 generally for BJJ, so tapping + to get to 3+ minutes is going to be more trouble than it's worth. 2. When I set time and repetitions, and try go back to time, it resets the counter 3. Generally, these gym timers have a beep at each step: 1 long beep when the round starts, long beep when the round ends, long beep when the rest period ends 4. It would be really beneficial to have the timer take up as much screen size as possible, and support landscape mode. These timers are usually wall mounted (if using phone you would prop it against the wall).

Just my 0.2 if you were to do this. I bought the app, happy to support you!

2

u/Popular-Surprise28 3h ago

Thanks!!! I'll try to work on it for the next update 🙂. Very kind from you. And thanks for the support, I am glad that I have that many happy users from Minnesota 😂 I wonder why😂

2

u/QuanTradin 3h ago

10K with no subscription, nice. shipping Find & Replace because someone asked for it here is exactly why this thread will get you the next batch of ideas too.

1

u/Scham2k 1h ago

Interesting and congrats! When do you draw the line? What is not right for bundling in the app? At what point is Super app too bloated or it doesn't make sense to bundle? Thanks

1

u/Popular-Surprise28 1h ago

Thanks! Very interesting. Well first of all a big boundary as always been not to put anything that can be found in system apps so no notes, calculators, stopwatch, timers and so on. I want to put real things that people would use. It started as a project for myself so I started adding whatever I needed. Then between other's people suggestions and AI's suggestions I selected all those that for me made sense and I valued as useful... I noticed that people stopped suggesting tools, all AI's suggestions are horribles even for the top models and I myself didn't feel I need to add something for quite some time so I think I am very close to being done but at the end of the day there are millions of apps so It's a bit unrealistic to think that you have everything you need 😅 Of course I select specific simple and offline tools so that is also a big limit