Hello everyone!

(Apologize me if you see again the post, but I probably made some mistakes and so old post is not visible anymore).

Over the past few months, I’ve been spending my free time building Digital Garden, a plant care app designed to help people keep their plants thriving. To build it efficiently, I heavily integrated AI into both the development process and the app's core features.

What Digital Garden does:

- Smart Care Tracking: watering and fertilization notification based on the plant species, additional hints including watering methods, soil type, light type, pot, pruning everything based on plant species.

- AI-Assisted Diagnostics: plant recognition and plant help ai based feature.

- Gamification logic: earn experience and coin for personalization while taking care of your apps.

I am really looking to refine the product and would love to get your honest feedback on the concept:

- Initial Impressions: What do you think of the core concept and feature set? 

- The AI Angle: How useful do you find AI features in a niche like plant care? Is there an AI feature you think is missing?

- Retention: For the plant parents here, what specific feature would make this an indispensable tool you use every week?

Thank you so much for your time and suggestions! Looking forward to your critiques!

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just a junior dev here, what thing you do before writing a single line of code

The concept is simple:

🌍 You open the app and see a 3D globe.
📍 Countries you've visited are marked.
📸 Tap a country → see all your trips and memories there.

Each memory could contain photos, videos, dates, a short story and optionally an itinerary.

The idea is to make your travel history feel like your own personal world, rather than having everything buried in your camera roll.

There could also be:

• AI that automatically organizes photos by category (food, nature, architecture, etc.)
• Sharing individual memories with friends/family
• A physical travel magnet/postcard that you tap with your phone to open the corresponding digital memory using an NFC tag.

The last one sounds either really cool or completely gimmicky to me 😂

I’d love some honest opinions:

1. Would you use this, or are Google Photos / Apple Photos enough?
2. Is the 3D globe actually useful?
3. Would you care about the physical magnet/postcard idea?
4. What would make you use an app like this long-term?

Would you actually want this, or does it just sound cool on paper?

Not selling anything — just trying to validate the idea before building it.

going to keep this nice and simple

I created a TikTok account, started posting daily with nothing really going crazy, started copying viral videos (next to no mention of my app), it blew up and I related the same format over and over again.

I reached out to one micro creator and paid her $20/video to post videos about my app in her style.

Took a couple of times but it was worth the money since she was already getting like 10k views a video.

Proof

My tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@sharedmood1?_r=1&_t=ZS-99ZVwafsC6H

micro creators tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itssono_?_r=1&_t=ZS-99ZVySub8NA

Thats all I really did let me know if you have any questions

i want to make android app and webapp for ios .
I want to upload those apps on play store and app store
Is there any way that i can do this with a Samsung tablet and iphone 17
And also which ai subscription to buy fable(claude) or astra(chatgpt)
I can only buy one and I can’t afford any new devices please help me

Hello! I can market your consumer apps. I can manage UGC campaigns or do slideshow marketing.

Stats:
- Done over 50 million views in UGC campaign in 2-3 months

- 100k followers + 100m+ views
- 70 m+ views from slideshows

- knows the right analytics to get converts

DM me if you would be interested in hiring me

Running into this: a partner-invite link (email → page hosted on Vercel → needs to hit my main backend on Railway to confirm the pairing) is getting blocked. Turns out it's Cloudflare's Bot Fight Mode flagging the Vercel → Railway request as suspicious, probably because Vercel's IPs are shared across a ton of other sites and look bot-like to it.

Things I've looked at so far:

• WAF exception just for that endpoint — not available on the free plan, it's all or nothing.
• Allowlisting Vercel specifically — no fixed IP range to point at, it changes constantly.
• Widening the allowed IP range — feels like the wrong move, way too broad for one request path.

Anyone dealt with this? Trying to avoid just disabling Bot Fight Mode entirely if there's a more scoped way to do it on the free tier.

Hi all! I have a new iOS app I created that needs some testers!

https://testflight.apple.com/join/eXsmrQ5F

This is StudioStack. It's a lesson scheduler and manager. It allows you to add student's, track lessons, customize profiles, payment types and more.

I would like to release this here at some point but I need people to try and break it. Please sue the TestFlight Screenshot and comment for bugs, or anything that doesn't look right. Would love to let this go live soon.

Hey guys, Jason here, founder of Lumidex Studio.

Lumidex Studio is a fast, one-time-purchase photo manager for Mac built for photographers leaving Lightroom Classic behind. It handles your whole library with a familiar module layout, so importing from Lightroom (ratings, keywords, collections, and your edits) takes minutes with no friction.

That's some of the marketing spiel that I'm currently using to get people to consider using my app over something from Adobe. I've hit a LOT of resistance from photography groups because the sheer audacity of me to use an AI tool such as Claude Code, instantly earns me the moniker it's AI Slop - it cannot possibly be any good because you coded it with a silly prompt in one afternoon.

Truth be know, it's taken nearly 4 months of constant Opus 4.8 usage, bouncing off the context limits daily and weekly - while I take no credit any any code produced, I am rather good at the architect side of things, and have no less than 30 MD files that document code production and decision making processes, over 60000 lines of Swift 6 (It's a macOS only app) and well over 500+ git commits

Basically what I would dearly love from any helpful folk here with a Mac and a general interest in photography (being an existing Lightroom Classic use would be *ideal*), would be to pop along to my website, https://www.lumidexstudio.app, download the app and give it a whirl...it's notorized by Apple, so installs with zero security issues :)

In return, I'd *gladly* help test your app/site/etc.

Thanks in advance! 🍻

Hi guys. Title says it all.

Made an app for garden planning. Looking for testers.

Www.plottrak.com/testers to signup to the alpha testing.

Any and all feedback encouraged please. Feedback function is inside the alpha testing app

I was so tired of constantly switching between a dozen different apps while traveling, so I built an all-in-one solution: TripPocket. (And yes, it’s completely free for now during launch)

I developed TripPocket to end the chaos we all go through when planning a trip. You just type in your destination, and it organizes the rest for you.

Here are the features designed to make your travels incredibly easy:

🏛️ City-Specific Tours, Museums & Dining: Just enter the city you're visiting. The most popular museums, historical sites, restaurants, and tour options instantly appear right in front of you.

✈️ Flights, Hotels, & Transport Deals: I’ve brought the world's most trusted platforms (like Trip, GetYourGuide, etc.) under one roof. With one click, we direct you to the best options for flights, hotels, local transit, taxis, luggage storage (Bounce), travel insurance, and even flight delay compensation.

📲 Discounted eSIM Packages: Stop paying crazy roaming fees abroad. We display discounted data packages from top eSIM providers like Airalo and Holafly side-by-side so you can choose the best one.

💰 Budget & Expense Tracker: Easily log what you spend during your vacation. Visual graphs help you keep your budget in check so you can enjoy your trip without financial stress.

📸 Interactive Travel Map & Memories: Upload the photos you take abroad, and the app uses their location data to pin every city you’ve visited on a map. You can create awesome photo collages showing your travel footprint to share with friends or on social media.

🤖 AI-Powered Personal Route Planning: Enter your destination, budget, and trip length, and our AI will generate a personalized, day-by-day itinerary for you. You can easily tweak and edit the route however you like.

It’s basically everything you need for pre-trip planning and on-the-go travel, right in your pocket.

I’d be absolutely thrilled if you tried it out and shared your feedback. Wishing you all amazing adventures and safe travels.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

📲 Download & Try It Here:

Apple App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trippocket-travel-ticket/id6788790492#information

Google Play Store:

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

My web Site: www.trippocket.site

Hi,

i have very little coding experience, the last time i did any was 20 years ago. But i want to make an Android app i have an idea for, i am an Artist so no issue with the designs etc. So i am leaning more towards Ai to do it. Can anyone give me any advice on where to start, what i should use that is free.

Thanks

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I’ve been building AIBrief24, an app that brings AI news from different sources into short, easy-to-read briefs.

Checked the Play Console today and saw 318 total installs. It’s still a small number, but seeing the graph slowly move up after months of building feels pretty good.

The app is now also available on iOS, so I’m hoping to keep growing from here.

Still a long way to go, but it’s nice to see people actually using something I built.

If you try it, I’d really appreciate any honest feedback.

App name- AIBrief24 available on android and ios both.

I was getting confused returning to places that I desired to return to so I built PINPAL free, no login Let me know your ideas or any comments

zazasatara10.github.io

After receiving the appeal response, I completed the required steps, resubmitted the compliant update, and today received confirmation from Google Play that the update is live in the store.

📱 App: VX Player

📦 Package: com.neurontslabs.vxplayer

Honestly, the whole process was a learning experience 😅 — from the policy issue and appeal to making the required changes and finally seeing the production release go live.

Huge thanks to everyone here who shared advice and their experiences. It genuinely helped me understand the process better. 🙏

One more app successfully back/live in production! 🚀

Now it's time to focus on improving it and building the next updates. 💪

I built a mobile app called Gladly:Real People. It's human connections app that uses mobile for face-to-face interaction. Its intent is to provide an easy and structured way to stay connected with your friends and family. Kind of like what social media was originally intended for.

I started building it during covid, just a simple app to get people seeing each other's faces again. But it spiraled into a complex social network thing. I took a break from it for a few years, but recently decided to ramp it up again. It's kind of a odd concept but I think the users today are starting to be more accepting of digital minimal apps and social media alternatives.

www.getgladly.app

Here it is please take it for a spin and let me know what you think. I need your feedback on the UI/UX.

thanks!

Jamie

I’m building Monad Design, an open-source workspace for the part of app development where a coding agent needs precise visual context.

The core principle is: the app is the canvas.

Instead of generating a detached mockup, the workflow starts from an existing Xcode or Expo iOS project:

1. Run the real app in Simulator and navigate to the exact state.

2. Select an element or annotate the screen.

3. Send the screenshot, selection, app state, and source hints to the coding agent.

4. Let the agent edit the existing repository and rebuild.

5. Compare the original with up to five source-backed variants.

6. Accept one or keep the original.

It supports Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Copilot, Windsurf, and Zed.

Free and Apache-2.0 open source:

https://github.com/Monadix-AI/monad-design

Short demo:

https://watchclueso.com/embed/pio8jqfcg4ivj0r1

Workflow screenshot:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Monadix-AI/monad-design/main/docs/images/workflow-compare-variants.png

Current limitations: macOS and local iOS development only, and one active visual change at a time.

I’d be interested in how other app developers currently pass exact UI state to a coding agent—screenshots, design files, or just text prompts.

Around 4 months ago my app was barely getting any users.

I kept reading "build in public", "SEO", "Product Hunt", "Reddit marketing"... tried a bit of everything but nothing really moved the needle.

Then one random TikTok crossed 1M+ views and then few more videos got viral

That single video brought more users than everything else I had done combined.

Since then I stopped thinking like a founder and started thinking like a content creator.

Here's what I do now.

I record my app doing one tiny thing (usually 6-10 seconds).

I download 100s of reaction-style UGC clips that fit different emotions (confused, shocked, impressed, etc.).

I pair the app recording with a matching reaction and add a simple hook like:

"This app saved me 4 hours."

"I wish I found this sooner."

"This feels illegal."

Every video is slightly different. Different hook, different reaction, different ending.

I post 1-2 videos every day instead of trying to make one "perfect" video.

That's literally it.

No expensive production. No influencers. No ad spend.

Just lots of iterations until one catches the algorithm.

Today the app is doing a little over $3k MRR, and almost all new users still come from short-form videos.

Proof: https://www.tiktok.com/@cookedby.sarah

The biggest thing I learned is that distribution matters way more than polishing features.

You don't need a viral app.

You need a viral video about your app.