u/Affectionate_Owl5354

I’m a 30-year EOD/UXO veteran based in Kuwait. No computer science degree. No team. No funding.
12 months ago I decided to build the tools I always wished existed in the field.
Here’s what I shipped:
MapNero — A professional field mapping app for iOS. GeoPDF creation, GeoTIFF, Shapefile, GeoPackage, external GNSS, MIL-STD-2525D military symbology, team collaboration. Built because Avenza wasn’t good enough and cost too much.
StreamEar — An OSINT-based real-time audio alert system. RSS, Telegram, and social media ingestion, LLM classification, push notifications with threat prioritization.
BallisticEdge Pro — A precision ballistics calculator for long-range shooters. G1-G8 drag models, Coriolis, spin drift, 140+ reticle library.
All built solo. All on the App Store. All using AI as my co-developer.
What I learned: domain expertise beats coding skills. I didn’t know how to build apps. But I knew exactly what needed to exist. That clarity made everything else possible.
Still early. But proud of what’s been built.
Happy to answer any questions from other solo founders.

StreamEar 2.0 is now live on the App Store. After months of solo development, this comprehensive OSINT intelligence platform for iOS has shipped its biggest update yet.

What is StreamEar? It provides real-time global situational awareness, distilled into 14,000+ alerts aggregated from 100+ trusted sources, classified by AI at 97.1% accuracy, along with strategic analysis you can act on.

What's new in 2.0?

- Nexus Intelligence Engine: Tap any alert to reveal cross-domain connections — actor networks, causal chains, and non-obvious links across geopolitics, economics, and security, powered by AI with superforecaster-style scenario probabilities.
- Pattern Detection: AI continuously detects recurring event patterns across the global feed. You can ask follow-up questions on any pattern to dig deeper, translated into your language on demand.
- Mother Nature: A unified feed of earthquakes, wildfires, and extreme natural events worldwide. AI correlation connects natural disasters to geopolitical and economic signals, with past echoes showing how similar events unfolded historically.
- 3D Threat Globe: Visualize global alerts, fault lines, nuclear facilities, wildfires, and chokepoints on an interactive 3D globe. Switch between flat map and globe with a tap.
- CBRN Threat Analysis: Chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear alerts now include Gaussian plume dispersion modeling — lethal, injury, and detection zone estimates based on live weather conditions.
- Markets Intelligence: Track defense stocks, global indices, and commodities. AI correlates market movements with active alerts and generates strategic analysis on demand.
- Daily Intelligence Brief: AI-generated summary of the day's most significant events, refreshed every 24 hours.
- Multi-Platform: Full native support for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV.
- Map Layers: Nuclear facilities with interactive blast calculator, maritime chokepoints, active wildfires (NASA FIRMS), and extreme natural events (NASA EONET) — all toggleable and live.

Who is this for? Security analysts, defense contractors, EOD/UXO professionals, journalists covering conflict zones, emergency management teams, and anyone who needs to understand the world at the strategic level.

Coming soon: Android version is in active development. Built solo at The Nero Labs with no VC funding or investor pressure — just real tools for people who need real intelligence.