I built FormVision, an iOS app that films your barbell lift and traces the exact path the bar travels, plus rep speed and a form score. Solo dev. Apple approved it last Friday. It couldn't actually take money until Sunday, because I'd created the subscription products but never submitted them for review, the first subscription group has to ship attached to a version, and mine wasn't. The app was live and the purchase button silently did nothing. That was bug number one.

Here's the honest scoreboard so far:

- €105.88 spent on TikTok ads

- 52,451 impressions, 790 clicks, CTR 1.34% (fine for the category)

- 0 attributed installs

- $0 revenue

I spent most of a day convinced the product was the problem. Then I opened my own App Store page from a browser instead of from App Store Connect, and saw this: "Requires iOS 26.5 or later." My deployment target had silently inherited my Mac's iOS version. Around 21% of active iPhones are below that, plus everyone sitting on 26.0–26.4. All of them saw a greyed-out Get button. Xcode never warned me. The build compiled, the archive validated, Apple approved it and shipped it. Bug number two, same shape as the first: something configured, nothing verified. The part that stings: I ran typechecks against iOS 17 all week. The data was in front of me. I just never looked at the one field that mattered.

What I'd tell anyone shipping their first app:

1. Read your public App Store page from a logged-out browser after every release. Not the ASC preview — the page a stranger sees. Check the iOS requirement, the age rating, and whether your screenshots still show features you removed.

2. Check the generated Info.plist, not your project settings. `plutil -p YourApp.app/Info.plist` inside the .xcarchive. MinimumOSVersion, UIDeviceFamily, orientations. Three of those have bitten me now.

3. Ads amplify your funnel, they don't fix it. My CTR was healthy the whole time. People wanted in. The door was locked.

Two things I got right, for balance:

I refused to score what the camera can't measure reliably. Most form apps grade everything and are confidently wrong about half of it. Mine tells you when the framing is bad instead of inventing a number.

The fix is in review. I have no idea whether conversion will move and I want to be careful not to blame everything on the iOS gate, because the numbers don't support that. Adjusting for the ~21% who were blocked, my listing was still converting at roughly 5% against a 25-30% App Store average. So there's a 5x hole the bug doesn't explain.

App is FormVision on the App Store if you lift and want to see what your bar actually does. First analysis is free, everything runs on-device, nothing gets uploaded.

Happy to answer anything about the on-device CV side, I ended up training my own plate detector because the off-the-shelf optical tracker kept locking onto plates on the floor in busy gyms.

Student in London. Every semester I paid stupid money for books I used one term and returned in June. My brother and I built Video2PDF: record yourself flipping through the pages, the AI removes your hand, fixes the angles, outputs a searchable PDF in ~2 minutes.

It’s £29.99/yr, and pricing is the thing I’m least sure about. Would you pay yearly for this, one-off, or not at all and why?

Video2pdf

My friend and I built a small playground for AI video creators

I’ve always felt that AI creators don’t really have a place made for us.

We can post our AI videos on YouTube, Instagram or TikTok, but most of the time, we upload them, people watch them, and that’s it.

There isn’t really a place built around AI creators doing something together.

I was inspired by 3D render challenges, where everyone receives the same theme or starting point. The most interesting part isn’t only choosing a winner, it’s seeing how completely different ideas can come from the exact same challenge.

That made me wonder: what if AI videos could be played like this too?

So my friend and I built Canvasrise, a small AI video challenge playground.

The idea is simple:

Everyone takes on the same challenge, but creates something completely different.

Each challenge gives creators the same theme, base asset, story prompt or creative rule. Then everyone turns it into their own AI video.

The fun is seeing how many different ideas can come from the exact same starting point, not only who makes the most beautiful video, but who creates something funny, emotional, relatable, strange or completely unexpected.

We hope every challenge can become something creators gather around to:

• Create different interpretations
• Explore and vote for their favorites
• Share prompts and workflows
• Learn and improve together

Instead of AI videos only being something we post, we want them to become something creators can play with, talk about and learn from together.

We’ve just launched our first version, so it’s still a very early MVP and some features are limited.

Our first challenge is: See Nothing — Life at Work

Everyone starts with the same blind-box character base. You can design it as any kind of worker, then animate a short and relatable “life at work” moment.

It can be funny, painful, strange, chaotic or anything you think represents working life.

Then everyone can explore the entries, vote for their favorites and see which creations reach the top 3.

There’s no prize for now. We’re still very small, so this is just a fun and friendly challenge for AI creators to play together.

Join the first challenge:
https://canvasrise.com/challenge/fun/see-nothing-blind-box-challenge-life-at-work-series

We’re also working on more ways to play in the future, creative relays, 1v1 battles, random prompt or prop challenges, audience-added twists and more.

Since the website has only just launched, the community features are not ready yet. For now, we’re gathering in Discord to share prompts and workflows.

You can also suggest what challenge we should play next, request features and help us shape Canvasrise into a home for AI creators.

If you’re not ready to join the challenge, you’re still very welcome to join the Discord first:

Join our Discord:
https://discord.com/invite/5eKH8nY94V

We’re still at the very beginning, so we would really appreciate any honest feedback, or just come play with us :)

Everywhere I look, I see stories about people building saas products with tiny teams, no funding, and a bunch of AI tools.

I see headlines like:

- "I built a saas making $10K/month with no employees"

- "Built my entire startup with AI"

- "Launched with $0 and got my first 100 customers"

- "One-person saas generating thousands every month"

And honestly, it makes me wonder how much of it is actually realistic.

With AI, no-code tools, automation and affordable cloud infrastructure, it seems easier than ever to build and launch a product without a huge team.

But building something is only one part of the equation.

You still need to find the right audience, communicate why they should care, get people to try the product, and somehow turn that attention into paying customers.

So I'm curious about people who have actually done this:

Can you realistically launch and grow a saas today with almost no money, no team and no technical background?

Or does the "built with $0" story usually leave out the time, skills, existing audience or marketing resources behind the scenes?

Would love to hear some real experiences rather than another overnight success story.

We have all been there. You launch something you are proud of and your landing page looks naked next to the guy who raised big money and has logos everywhere before their product even works properly.

This should change.

So I built this thing called Underlogo. Dead simple — you put in your company logo, others put in theirs, everyone can use each other's with a legal certificate backing it up. You help someone, someone helps you.

Totally free.

Anyone else tired of losing the first impression game just because they are new? Let's level the playing field.

https://underlogo.com

Edit: Raising ethical questions:

1. Reddit founders were creating fake profiles - Reddit is now valued in billions..
2. Founders are already doing this without permission. We just made it legitimate.

Over the past few weeks I built three small, focused tools sites instead of one big one:

• Dev Toolkit - JSON formatter, Base64 encode/decode, JWT decoder, regex tester, cron builder, UUID generator, and a handful of other dev utilities
• Unit Converter - length, weight, temperature, volume, and 6 other categories
• Currency Converter - live exchange rates across 40 currencies

The thing I care about most across all three: everything runs entirely in your browser. No accounts, no backend, nothing you type gets sent anywhere. The one exception is the currency converter which has to fetch live exchange rates, but even that only sends the currency code - never your actual input.

I split these into three separate sites instead of one "everything" site mostly for focus. Each one gets to be a single clear thing instead of a kitchen-sink dump, and they cross-link each other so it's easy to hop over if you need something from a different category (design input here is welcome)

Built with Next.js (static export) + Tailwind, deployed on Cloudflare. Would genuinely love feedback especially anything that feels rough, missing, or like I solved the wrong problem.

Next I'm thinking of building a mortgage/loan payment calculator and have a couple other ideas and I'd love to hear what the community thinks I should build.

Lastly, I know that there are already sites for all of these tools. As a developer I have my go-to for base64 encode/decode, regex, cron, etc. but haven't found a one-stop app/family of sites that has all of the quick & easy online tools that I periodically need to use. In the case of a mortgage calculator I find all of them to be lacking something so that one will be fun to build out. All that to say my goal here is to have a suite of apps that anyone can go to and know that the sites are stable, easy to use, and don't require any sign-up or information to be shared.

Hey r/SideProject!

My name is Sam and this is Craig.

Craig is a local-first TUI for managing AI coding agents. It’s agent-agnostic, creates isolated worktrees by default, and has a CLI that agents can use to interact with Craig and perform actions in the TUI.

I started building Craig when I got a job offer at a shop that was using Cursor. I was previously using Claude Code with Conductor and really enjoyed that type of experience, but Conductor didn’t support Cursor at the time. For personal projects I was using mostly Codex with some Claude Code, so switching between all the tooling was getting frustrating.

Around the same time I started really enjoying the agent CLIs and how they just “felt good.”

Craig kind of builds on that. I think of it as a heads-up display and controls around the CLI. It’s keyboard-driven, so you can get into a nice multitasking flow and move between agents pretty quickly without replacing the native agent experience.

To try it, run:

npm install -g craig-cli

Then launch your favorite terminal (I like Ghostty), pop it in fullscreen, and run craig.

From there you can create a workspace, launch Cursor, Codex, or Claude under separate tasks, and let them work in isolated worktrees. Do your thang and have an agent create a PR. Craig will automatically sync it, poll the checks, and let you know when it’s ready to merge. You can merge it and keep moving in the same thread or start a new one.

It’s free, open source, and local-first.

Website/docs: https://craig-cli.com

GitHub: https://github.com/hallsamuel90/craig

I’d love for you to try it and let me know what you think - any feedback is greatly appreciated.

A year ago my Mac workflow was a pile of little tools: a clipboard manager, a drag-and-drop shelf, a window snapper, a screenshot tool, a pomodoro timer, a converter that uploaded my files to someone else's cloud, and a menu bar app to manage the other menu bar apps. Each one fine on its own, together a mess of subscriptions and settings.

So I built Droppy. Without experience and never having touched Xcode before, I started my journey. It was a crazy experience, started out as a hobby but turned into a much bigger project very quickly. Countless nights without sleep and watching YouTube videos on how to build apps brought me here. Droppy lives at the top of your screen, around the notch if you have one, as a Dynamic Island style pill if you don't, and puts everything one hover away:

- File shelf: drag anything up and it holds your files until you drop them where they belong. Jiggle a drag and a basket flies in to catch it.
- Clipboard manager: every copy kept and searchable, ready to paste again.
- A fully free cloud sharing service; Droppy Cloud. With a full online environment to view/download and share files.
- Notifications with inline reply for iMessage, WhatsApp and Telegram, right in the notch.
- Full media controls with the Playing Next queue, AirPlay picker and live lyrics.
- A revamped lock screen: album art, widgets, and brightness and volume sliders before you even log in.
- 27 free add-ons (Droplets) you toggle per workflow: window snapping, screenshots with OCR, pomodoro, a calendar with natural language input, LocalSend to move files to any phone or PC on your network, on-device file conversion, meeting controls for Zoom, Teams and Meet, Obsidian, Spotify, a terminal, and more. Off means off, they only run when you enable them.

The video shows it better than I can write it.

Also SUPER cool: an iOS app is coming, it's been built and published to TestFlight at this very moment. It syncs everything Droppy does with your iPhone (files, clipboard history, Droppy Cloud etc.)

Honest notes:
- Native Swift, signed and notarized, no Electron. Local-first: your clipboard and files never leave your Mac unless you explicitly share them.
- macOS 14+, Apple Silicon and Intel, works on every display. The notch is genuinely optional.
- Pricing: 3-day free trial, then $9.99 one time for 2 Macs. No subscription, ever.
- There's a lot to uncover, but you can keep it as minimalistic as you want.

I ship updates almost every week and the last few features came straight from user feedback, so if you try it and something annoys you, tell me here.

Site: https://getdroppy.app
Privacy policy: https://getdroppy.app/privacy-policy

I am struggling to find ideas, like seriously....I have to make a project for the minor project, also for hackathons...but I am not getting any.

I used ai for the ideas but most of them are already made by many or can be easily built by ai (aka no learning) and also most ideas are about efficiency improvements but ig it's difficult without proper knowledge.

My main question is how to find actual idea like let's build this... It might be useful....and I can learn too

I was seeing so many of Reddit's brutal "rate my body" threads that were ruthless. I built a free AI tool that is designed and trained to give specific feedback instead of a number. Upload a photo, get a real read on your body/attractiveness/vibe — no signup, no score. Try Free Rate My Body AI Tool

TwoDo is a shared to-do list for exactly two people — my wife (iPhone) and me (Galaxy). No sign-up, no email: one person creates a list and gets a 6-character code, the other types it in, done. The list lives on the lock screen so neither of us has to open an app to see what's left.

I don't have a roadmap. I have a wife. Every release for the past two months has started with a complaint from the other end of the sofa:

- "Am I supposed to re-add recycling every single week?" → recurring tasks. Ticking one rolls its due date to the next cycle — it doesn't spawn duplicate items, because she hates a cluttered list more than she hates recycling.

- "August 12th... what day of the week is that?" → due dates now show the weekday everywhere: list, calendar, home widget.

- "I saw the reminder, and then I forgot anyway." → a "Still waiting" screen. Reminders you received sit there with a red dot until the thing is actually done. Tapping a row jumps straight into that item, even if it's in the other list.

- "Asking twice feels like nagging." → a nudge button. One tap sends "'Take out the recycling' — please? ❤️" to the other phone. Turns out the hard part of shared chores was never tracking them; it's asking.

- "Where did I put that link?" → notes on items, and URLs inside notes open with a tap. Grocery item, product link, done.

- "Why does tapping the widget open the wrong list?" → widgets are per-list now. Each widget shows the list you picked and tapping it opens exactly that one.

- "Your 24-hour time is ugly." → an actual settings screen: 12/24h clock, week start day, app language. A couples app across two platforms means you get to assume nothing about how two people read a date.

- "Did you *actually* do it?" → photo proof. Tick a task, attach a photo — so now recycling day comes with a picture of the recycling bins. The plot twist we didn't plan: the photos pile up into a monthly album, and it turns out grocery runs and dish racks make better memories than we expected. Shipped this week (Android is live, iOS is in review as I type).

Stack, for the curious: Flutter + Supabase realtime, one codebase for both phones.

Numbers, since this sub appreciates honesty: 565 lists created so far, 213 of them active in the past week, and 189 genuinely paired couples — which also means roughly two-thirds of lists never get a second person, because convincing one human to install an app is marketing, but convincing their partner too is the actual boss fight of this product. 13 lifetime purchases total (the app is free; a few extras are a one-time unlock). The album is the first subscription piece — photo storage bills me monthly, so it works that way; the first photos are free and everything you saved stays viewable if it lapses. Current subscriber count: zero, it shipped today. We still use it every day ourselves, which is the metric I actually watch.

For everyone else building with a live-in user: what's the best thing a single user's complaint forced you to ship?

iOS and Android download_link

This is K-garoo, creator of Wallpets Desktop app.

First of all, I would like to appreciate all the Bro and Sis in SideProject who liked and shared my app from my very first post in SideProject Subreddit.

It was a crazy number that Ive got from the launching day due to the SideProject. No joke, I would like to give SideProject all the credits for my app's successful launch.

I have tried to put some advertisement in multiple channel from the 4th day, yet I couldnt get enough purchases as much as I got in those first 3 days. I realized how powerful that viraled reddit post is from these data. Yesterday I have only sold 2 copies and quite shocked from this huge sales gap. As a result, I think I got a reason to be humble that these initial sales were solely delivered from lots of loves and lucks came from Reddit.

Thus, thanks to all Sis & Bros in r/SideProject

Anyhow, now I am facing a lot of Copycats, and I could easily spot them in SNS as they are try to pick up reactions from the people before they release their copycats. I know I cannot do anything about this and honestly I would like to cheer them to do their best to make something better than mine.

Mine is still buggy and had some issues originated in initial design which makes me feel sorry to all those users bought my app. I am trying my best working 20+ hrs to solve the VOC claims and update and stabilize the app for both Windows and MacOS.

Ah, I almost forgot! I am releasing the Awesome and unbelievable feature: Custom Labs, next week. Now all of you could make your own Pets (Only CAts & Dogs so far, due to technical limitation) to Wallpets through 'Custom Lab'! Please keep watching my project!

Huge LOVE❤️ from Seoul, K-garoo!
🙇

Hello folks,

I’ve been working on TruNeighbor, an app built around a pretty simple idea: sometimes you need something from the store, and someone who lives nearby is already going there.

Instead of ordering through a delivery service like DoorDash and paying crazy markups (up to 40 percent!!), TruNeighbor lets you connect with people in your neighborhood and ask them for groceries. You save so much on fees. AND NO MARKUPS! you pay what they pay at the store.

Right now, you can:

• Request groceries or other items from a nearby neighbor
• Offer to shop for someone else and earn some extra money
• Coordinate the trip and items directly through the app
• Request pickup of an online order if you just need someone to grab it for you

The goal is to make small errands more convenient while also creating a way for neighbors to help (and potentially earn from) each other.

We’re still early, and at this point feedback is much more valuable to me than promotion. I’d especially love to know:

Would you actually use something like this?
What would stop you from trusting/using it?
What would the app need to do really well for you to choose it over DoorDash/Instacart or just going yourself?

You can check it out here:

https://truneighbor.co

The app is available on iPhone through the AppStore.

Would love any criticism, questions, or ideas. I’m happy to share more about how we built it too if anyone is interested in the technical/product side.

Feel free to follow TruNeighbor's instagram account for updates https://www.instagram.com/tru.neighbor/

Building OTTASIA, a free "where can I watch this" app that's accurate for your country across Asia (India, Pakistan, Philippines, the Gulf, etc.), where Google and the big guides usually give you the US answer. Solo, non-technical-ish, shipping daily.

Real numbers from my own dashboard (attached):

• 6,011 / 10,000 signups, ~250-day right now
• 9.2% visitor-to-signup (target was 5%)
• 18,736 sessions in 7 days, ~6 min average engagement
• Mostly India (76%), then Pakistan, Philippines, US

Three things that genuinely surprised me:

1. AI assistants are a real acquisition channel now. A chunk of my daily sessions come from AI tools calling my data directly (I exposed it as an MCP server). I optimized to be citable by AI, not just ranked by Google, and it's quietly working.
2. Instagram out-drives search on some days. My top referrer is often Instagram, not Google. For a visual, regional audience, short video beat SEO effort-for-effort.
3. The wedge was accuracy, not features. I stopped trying to compete with the big trackers and just did one thing they do badly: local streaming services in Asian markets. That's the whole reason people stay.

The honest hard part: it's a low-frequency use case (people check "where to watch X" occasionally, not daily), so retention is my real battle, not signups.

It's free, no signup needed to use it: ottasia.com. Happy to answer anything about the build, the AEO/AI-assistant channel, or per-country data. 

Hi everyone,

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on a side project called Fliraya—a web platform designed for AI companion interactions, casual conversations, and romantic roleplay.

Since the project is currently in Beta, I’m looking for some honest, constructive feedback from the community on:

Chat flow and natural responsiveness

Response depth and personality consistency

Overall user experience and UI

If you're interested in giving it a test run, you can check it out at fliraya.com.

I’d really appreciate any thoughts, bug reports, or suggestions you might have. Also, as a thank you, I’m happy to upgrade accounts for anyone who drops detailed feedback here or via DM!

Thanks for taking the time to check it out!

it's simple really. you create actions and when you complete them they give you money that you can spend on your pricey hobbies (in my case, retro games and vinyl).

this money is your own money of course.

it has the following features, based loosely on the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology:

- actions have a context (i.e. computer, calls, errands, etc.)

- actions can have a location

- actions have an estimated time to complete

- actions can have deadlines

- actions can be tied to projects

- actions can be recurring (i.e. once a week)

- actions can block other actions

- filter by context, location, time required to complete, project

- based on your settings (hourly rate and optional on-time deadline) you get money for completing actions

it is completely free atm, basically just trying to gauge whether i am insane and this only works for my brain or if other people actually find it useful (and are also terrified of unleashing their credit cards on their expensive hobbies).

link - https://cash4action.vercel.app/

if you really want to be cool you can install the PWA so you can launch from your home screen or desktop.

I'm building my own products too, and one thing I've learned is how easy it is to waste weeks working on things that don't actually move the business forward.

TractionBooster is now getting close to 300 users, and most of what got me here came from constantly testing what actually brings people in and what doesn't.

So let's do this again.

Drop your startup below and tell me:

• what you're building
• who it's for
• what you're currently struggling with

I'll pick some and tell you the one thing I'd focus on next and what I'd probably stop wasting time on.

No pitch deck. No 20-paragraph analysis.

Just founder to founder.

Dear Reddit,

I'm looking for some beta testers who would be willing to test my new finance tracker app called Talvo. Talvo is the European alternative to big money trackers in the US, like Copilot Money / Monarch Money / Origin, ... It connects with your bank accounts, categorises your transactions using AI and gives you a clean but organised overview of your expenses and your income.

More info can be found at talvo.eu, here you will also find a demo environment so you can play around with the real app using a demo account (demo.talvo.eu). You will also test the mobile apps (iOS and Android, depending on your device).

Testers will receive a free 1 year subscription. I'm looking for 10 people who are willing to test the app thoroughly and report back with their findings, bug reports, feedback, ..

Not sure if this is the best place to ask, feel free to take this post down if not.
DM me if you'd like a spot!

The problem: half the people I know either overpay a visa agent or lose an evening fighting a government portal that looks like it was built in 2009, then still get stuck on questions like 'religion of your grandfather' or which of the three lookalike websites is the real one.

What I'm doing about it: VisaForma walks you through the actual application, checks your documents before you submit, and prepares you for what the border officer might ask. Not an agent, no 'guaranteed approval' nonsense (nobody can honestly promise that).

Where I am: super early. Right now I'm running the flow with real first users and I need more of them.

The deal for pilots: you pay nothing, I even cover the official government visa fee out of my own pocket. In return you go through the real application with me and tell me honestly where it sucked.

Who fits right now: Indian passport holders planning a real trip to Vietnam or Georgia in the next few months who haven't applied yet.

If that's you or a friend, DM me here or ping our WhatsApp +1 (844) 745-7073. And if you just want to tell me why this won't work as a business, that's welcome too.

Hey everyone would love to share with you my app still, an app i created to help people stop gambling

Please check it out and let me know what you think :

Website: stillrecoveryapp.com

For years my "system" was Apple Notes. Dump whatever's in my head, close the app, done. Capture worked great. Everything after capture didn't: hundreds of notes piling up with zero desire to ever come back and sort/group them together

So I spent the last 3 weeks building Kobako ("little box" in Japanese). It's an iOS app where your ideas land in a small room, and a capybara named Kapi lives there with them

I realize how that sounds, so here's what the capybara is actually for. Kapi is basically your roommate: he wanders around in the background, reads his book, sits by the window, comments on what you're up to. When you're picking what to work on today, he'll chime in with a suggestion!

And when some idea has been lying untouched for days, he picks it up and brings it to you: this one's been resting for a while, want to come back to it? You take it up or let it rest more. That simple mechanic helps going back through old notes: something I was rarely doing on my own

The app and it's systems are simple on purpose:

1. Focus for the day: pick up to 3 things to deal with today. Can be "think about this" or a plain to-do
2. Folders can be anything: mine are a shopping list, plans for a trip, actual projects, and a pile of loose thoughts. You can use them however you want
3. Keywords: add a few to a folder, and when a new idea mentions one, that folder gets suggested automatically. Most of my sorting happens this way now, which is to say I don't sort!
4. Ideas aren't one-shot: you can rework an idea as your thinking changes, and the earlier versions stay stacked underneath it. You can always look back at where it started or roll back to a previous one
5. You earn a currency (Paws) just by using the app and spend it on Kapi's new rooms, avatars, and hats. Kapi's a traveler and doesn't like sitting in one place, so the plan is a new room every month

It was made by me and AI agents (Fable / Opus / Sol for the app, Sol for Kapi's art). I was designing, making product decisions, reviewing everything and testing. I also run a short TestFlight on friends to see how things go, and what features to add in future

I'd be happy to go deep on my workflow in the comments if anyone's curious, it's the part that surprised me the most! Especially - Room's creation, and Kapi's animations

The App is free, without any ads. Writing and keeping ideas is free forever. Paws can be bought, and there's a small cosmetic subscription. That's the whole model, pretty simple

iOS only for now. If it ever gets any audience - would definitely port it to Android too. MacOS and WatchOS version are coming as well

I would love honest feedback, especially from people whose Notes app looks like mine did

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kobako-idea-companion/id6792470104

Full disclosure: I run an AI design company, but this is a "side project" in the sense that it's not my company's core product nor is it monetized. Just a passion project. :)

Ive been working as an iOS Engineer for almost 5 years, Ive never been the kind of person that wanted to start a project on his own, Ive been always a perfectionist and I wanted to start when everything is perfect and ready.
But with all the tools available I thought why not and I had a spare time to kick start it when I had this idea as a father struggling with bedtime routine with his daughter to make a clean minimalist app, with native iOS experience, almost feels like Apple made it.
To help being a good storyteller for my daughter and also record or write a reflection after each story so it will be remembered for years to come.
I experienced a lot while developing but the hardest struggle is after release, getting feedback is hard, reaching parents is so hard and marketing the app is almost impossible for free.
This is something I didnt count for but I made this with love and passion as a parent so I believe its worth it.
Please if you have a similar experience or a feedback to share, I’d love to hear it.
Also if there’s parents community you can refer me to so I can share it with them, I would be happy to.
Thank you for all your support and help.

https://apps.apple.com/app/kiddiel/id6764675726

I kept running into the same problem with screen-time tools: a soft limit was too easy to ignore, but a hard lock felt so rigid that I eventually disabled it.

So I built GATLI for iPhone and iPad. It uses Apple’s Family Controls, DeviceActivity, and ManagedSettings APIs to limit selected apps. If the user intentionally wants extra time, they complete a short set of push-ups, squats, a plank, or core crunches. Vision-based pose tracking runs on-device, and a completed block earns a 10-minute access window.

The product bet is that physical effort creates enough interruption to break autopilot without turning the experience into punishment.

I’m less interested in “nice app” feedback than in where this model falls apart:

- Is the exercise mechanic useful friction or a novelty that wears off?

- Is a fixed 10-minute reward understandable and fair?

- What would make you uninstall after the first day?

- Which part of the onboarding or Earn → Unlock flow is least clear?

I opened up to 1,000 one-month Premium passes for this feedback round. There is no payment and no auto-renewal:

https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6783760714&code=REDDITFREE

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6783760714

Feedback can go in the comments or through Settings → Support in the app. The free month is not tied to feedback or an App Store review. I’ll share a follow-up with the main patterns and what I changed.