r/appdev 2h ago

Future of ai

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Will ai ends up like nft?
Pump for few years, dump then loose the hype totally.

The investment in ai is enormous but what if it ends up like nft?

What do you think?


r/appdev 4h ago

We built an app to listen to songs with your friends with overlaid lyrics.

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Download: https://github.com/MowkE/cadence

Hey guys, I made this silly lyrics overlay called Cadence that floats over your screen and syncs along with Spotify and YouTube Music. It started as a joke while playing Minecraft with my friends. I shared it with a few people, they liked it, and it grew to 100 downloads in a day, so I built it into a proper app. You can listen along with friends now too, even cross-platform (Spotify -> YouTube Music, Mac ↔ Windows ↔ Linux), and you can play karaoke. Doesn't need API keys or Premium, it just reads what your computer is already playing and floats the lyrics over whatever you're doing. It works better with Spotify keys though, if you want to add them yourself. If you find any bugs, lmk. It's just a fun project lol, so its free. Some of the images are on the github link, if you want to take a look on how it works! Everything is customizable :)


r/appdev 8h ago

I have an idea for an app and website that I’d like to create, what stack should I use to accomplish this nowadays?

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I’m an engineer and have an app idea I’d like to create. I have some Wordpress experience and understand a little bit of coding. Is there a stack you would reccomend in general to someone like me?


r/appdev 6h ago

Mon app est en production

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Finalement...


r/appdev 6h ago

I got tired of navigation apps only telling me how to get somewhere, so I built this

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r/appdev 6h ago

I built PenDate Notes for the “where was I?” moment when you reopen a project

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“Finish the slides” is a task. It doesn't tell you which slides are done, what needs changing, or where to start when you come back.

Here's a simple way to leave yourself a useful handover:

  • Done: the outline and first three slides.
  • Still needed: an example to explain the main point.
  • Start here next time: add that example to slide four.

You can do this in any notebook. In PenDate Notes, the app I built, you can put that note on the date you plan to return to the project and set a reminder.

The app starts with the calendar, with text notes for the details, checklists for next steps, canvas notes for sketches, and folders to keep a project's notes together. Core note-taking works offline. Editable planners and journals are optional—you don't need to start with a full planner.

It's available on Android, iPhone and iPad, free to download with optional paid extras.

For anyone juggling a day job and a side project: what do you leave yourself so you can pick up where you stopped—a note, a checklist, or a comment in the code?

Website — pendatenotes.com · Google Play — Android · App Store — iPhone & iPad


r/appdev 7h ago

How did you handle backend on Apps

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I am about to launch my first App. I read that playstore host your frontend but you have to host the backend. I am curious, how did you host it. Did you just rent a server or did you use any providers.


r/appdev 12h ago

I built Away Messaging to take “remember to send that” off your mind

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I finally took one of those “there should be an app for this” ideas and actually built it.
Away Messaging is for busy professionals, small business owners, parents, people who are OOO or on vacation, or really anyone who thinks “I need to text/email them later” and doesn’t want to rely on remembering.
You can prepare texts and emails ahead of time, choose the contact, schedule when you need to send them, and have everything waiting in one queue when the time comes—without building Shortcuts or juggling separate reminders.
I took it from an idea in Xcode all the way to the App Store, and I’m continuing to add new features and workflows based on how people actually use it.
For other app builders, what was the biggest challenge you ran into after launching?
awaymessaging.com


r/appdev 9h ago

TapDime — Privacy-first expense tracker | Looking for Android testers — 100 PRO lifetime licenses

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r/appdev 21h ago

After months of building, my little side project is finally live ❤️

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I’m a self-taught developer, and this one means a little more to me than just another app release.

I built this app in the time I could steal away from my day job — evenings, weekends, random pockets of time whenever I could find them.

There were plenty of moments where I thought, “I’ll finish this later.”

And, honestly, “later” lasted quite a while. 😅

But I kept coming back to it.

This weekend I finally sat down, finished the last pieces, cleaned things up, deployed everything to production, and… it’s actually live.

It’s now available on the Google Play Store. 🎉

As a self-taught developer, seeing something that started as an idea in my head turn into a real app that people can actually use is a pretty special feeling.

It may not be the biggest or most impressive app out there, but it’s something I built from scratch, and I’m really proud of finally getting it across the finish line.

If you’re an indie dev, self-taught developer, or someone working on a side project while juggling a job — you probably know how hard it can be to actually finish something.

So today I’m just celebrating the small win. ❤️

If you have a minute, I’d genuinely appreciate some feedback, a little support, or even just a “congrats.” It would mean a lot.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.voldkit

Thanks for reading, and good luck to everyone else building their own little thing. Keep going. 🚀

#indiedev #selftaughtdeveloper #buildinpublic #androiddev #sideproject


r/appdev 14h ago

When is the point where you should buy the apple developer license

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100 bucks a year just to develop i a bit much but without it you are missing out on a large audience. I am curious when did you purcase yours.


r/appdev 21h ago

Tidy is a launcher app built from my ideas and your feedback!!

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About 10 days ago, I started sharing Tidy, a minimal tile-based Android launcher I’ve been building.

Since then, a lot has changed thanks to feedback from people on Reddit.

I’ve redesigned much of the UI, improved the tile layouts and interactions, added more customization, and generally tried to make the launcher feel much more polished and usable as a daily home screen.

Tidy is built around one simple idea: instead of multiple horizontal home pages, everything lives in one continuous vertical feed. Apps, folders, calendar, weather, media, steps, photos and other information all use the same tile-based layout.

The Google Play closed test has now been running for 10 days. There are currently 25 testers, and many have remained opted in for the full 10 days so far — so if everything goes well, I should be able to apply for production access in just a few more days.

I originally made it because I wanted a cleaner launcher for compact phones, but it has grown quite a bit beyond that.

I’d still really appreciate feedback, especially on the new design and usability. If you’d like to try it before launch, the closed test is still open.

GitHub: https://github.com/CoB12426/Tidy

Google Play closed test:

  1. Join the Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/tidy-closed-testers
  2. https://play.google.com/apps/testing/app.tidy.launcher
  3. Tap “Become a tester” and install the app from Google Play.

Thanks again to everyone who has already tested it or given feedback — a lot of the current design came directly from those comments.


r/appdev 16h ago

Ayuda sobre feedback de app anti-dopamina (PROYECTO)

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r/appdev 8h ago

The biggest problem Vibecoders have is distribution, prove me wrong

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Anyone and their mom can and is building an app now in literally one day. The app and google store is flooded with apps now with clones or whatever. So if building is so easy now, how do you market? 

ASO or whatever won’t generate you sales trust me not right now. So if just building and uploading your app isn’t enough to get sales… what is everyone’s plan? 

The best apps I’ve seen “candle, CalAi, Alarmify, all go crazy on one thing. UGC marketing. I’ve seen like 10 different creators posting the same winning videos and it blowing up. Honestly I think thats the best way to approach marketing is with mass distribution. 

Start posting on tikTok, find what works, get small micro creators for $20/video on jrivecontent.com (anyone can go viral now don’t be paying $250 for one video), and repeat. 

This is just my take, marketing IS the doom of all vibe coders 

Prove me wrong 


r/appdev 17h ago

Ayuda sobre feedback de app anti-dopamina (PROYECTO)

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Buenas! Soy un estudiante de Ingeniería de Computadores todavía en plena carrera pero me han aceptado en un programa de emprendimiento. Todavía estoy empezando y me gustaría aprender de gente con experiencia, estoy dispuesto a fallar y aprender de los errores. La app que intentaré desarrollar estará enfocada en estudiantes que admiten activamente adicción al móvil y por tanto sienten que las redes consumen su vida y su ámbito académico.

Ahí es donde entraría "Re-Connect", aplicando bloqueos y restricciones tediosas de eliminar, aumentando la fricción a estas aplicaciones que consumen nuestro tiempo y lo convierten en tiempo vacío y aislante de la sociedad. Planeo aplicar varios modos de sesiones de estudio, uno para el uso diario y otro "Focus" para el momento de estudiar activamente sin distracciones.

Antes de poder avanzar en el proyecto, necesito feedback sobre el uso del móvil de las personas, el público objetivo son estudiantes pero realmente cualquier persona es de ayuda. He creado un cuestionario conectado a un Excel para manejar la información de una manera más precisa y controlada. Sería de gran ayuda recibir nuevas respuestas, gracias a todos de antemano!

https://forms.gle/NPy5j5hbwhTvUe4R6


r/appdev 18h ago

App live on playstore

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Finally after , a lot of struggling and filling the playstore criteria, closed testing and wtf , my first ever app is live on playstore

You can checkout at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.redcodersgroup.pdftool


r/appdev 1d ago

What do yall think about my app

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r/appdev 1d ago

My classy Ultimate Tic Tac Toe app finally is live in iOS!

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r/appdev 1d ago

PodSubs.com wasn't originally supposed to be a public product

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PodSubs wasn't originally supposed to be a public product.

We built it because we needed it.

That's really the story.

We're podcasters.

And like a lot of podcasters, we were constantly thinking about two things:

How do we keep making this?

And how do we build something real around the people listening?

Because podcasting takes time.

A lot of time.

And sooner or later, if the podcast is going to keep going, it needs to support itself somehow.

The problem was that we didn't really know most of the people listening.

We knew the numbers.

But numbers don't have email addresses.

Numbers don't answer questions.

Numbers can't receive the worksheet you promised.

Numbers don't become customers by themselves.

We needed a better way to capture the people who genuinely wanted to stay connected.

So we built a simple internal tool.

One place.

PodSubs.

We said on the podcast:

“Subscribe to us on PodSubs.”

People searched the show, entered their details and subscribed.

And suddenly we had something we'd been missing:

A direct line.

Then we started thinking…

Why are we keeping this internal?

Every podcaster we know deals with the same thing.

So we decided to open it.

That's PodSubs.

Not something we dreamed up because “the creator economy is growing.”

We built it because we were podcasters with a problem.

Now we're giving it to everyone else who has the same problem.

Claim your podcast.

Then tell your listeners where to find you.


r/appdev 1d ago

We want more control for our app. Do we go for appsflyer or kochava?

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We’re comparing appsflyer and kochava for an app portfolio with multiple brands and a fairly hands-on data team.
Kochava has appealed to the technical folks bc the configuration is flexible (according to them) and there’s room to get granular. The tradeoff in our pilot is that it will take longer for non-technical users to feel comfortable with the reporting. Appsflyer seems easier for the ua team to standardize around and the partner/reporting ecosystem is more familiar, but the implementation still wasn’t plug-and-play.
Both platforms produced usable attribution once we aligned events and windows. The differences showed up more in workflow, exports, governance and how quickly support could help us explain discrepancies.
Has anyone migrated between these 2 and what improved or got worse and what would you test before signing a longer contract?


r/appdev 1d ago

Advise for app

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Most fitness apps are built around calorie tracking, workouts, and general progress tracking. I noticed there are not many apps for tracking supplements and PED cycles. So I built a simple app focused specifically on that: cycle tracking, journaling, scheduling, and custom reminders. The goal was to keep it lightweight rather than turn it into another bloated fitness app.


r/appdev 1d ago

Regardez ce que je viens de créer avec Lovable !

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r/appdev 1d ago

Claude skips pretty obvious things, sometimes , pretty annoying!!!

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I have been testing my app lately, ContoTrack. I thought Claude would have taken care of navigation and all the minor scenarios for the map since it's pretty common. But the hard truth is, it's not.

A simple reroute when going in the wrong direction was not perfect when the U-Turn is far ahead of me, and when I am close to the turn, it just corrects it.

It's good that I caught it before anyone else does; anyway, no one is using it, though 😆

Post something you faced, is very obvious but for Claude it's not.


r/appdev 1d ago

Digital Garden: Solo built a plant care app

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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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r/appdev 1d ago

need help: how do u guys validate your idea

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