u/MrPineapple1066

What was your "Why"?

Everyone talks about how you should design a product that helps you or fixes a personal issue, don't just build something you think people will like.

For me, I spent the last 6 months building an app for my "why", and now I find myself using it every day. Both my partner and I, as well as lots of my friends travel for work, and I think I found a niche to fill.

What was your "Why", and did your product help? Did you end up using your own app?

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u/MrPineapple1066 — 1 day ago

What was your "Why"?

Everyone talks about how you should design a product that helps you or fixes a personal issue, don't just build something you think people will like.

What was your "Why", and did your product help? Did you end up using your own app?

For me, I spent the last 6 months building an app for my "why", and now I find myself using it every day. Both my partner and I, as well as lots of my friends travel for work. I got sick of my world clock app being messy and full of random cities, so I decided to make an app to help.

You can add your friends, and then app uses your devices timezone to update your city and time, keeping it all clean and automatic.

The person who ended up loving the app the most was actually my mother, which was a great way to test onboarding and features. Turns out when you're the one who made the app everything makes sense, but testing it with someone who's not as tech-literate will humble you very quickly.

If you want to check it out, the app is called TheirTime, and its on the App Store.

Id love to hear if its as useful to anyone else as it is to me!

u/MrPineapple1066 — 1 day ago