u/Terrible-Round1599

Hi, I have an app taking off on TestFlight and really wanted to track progress of number of sessions and crashes per user. In ASC there is a page for it, and I would like to automate scrapping it daily to see the progress. I managed to put together some kind of half assess solution through Fastlane Spaceauth but it always asks me for relogin so it cannot run fully automatically and collect data silently into my database.

Somewhere around last year I realized that the share of code I was writing by hand shrank to minimum. I started using Github Copilot and then Claude Code in full-agent mode and Xcode became the necessary evil to get the apps to my phone for testing. But on the go I had just my phone. That led me to creating my own deployment server that picks up significant changes in the codebase, builds the apps and pushes them to my phone over the air, without opening Xcode or attaching the cable. When I am on the same wifi, the system can even auto-install and auto-open the apps, same as when you do this via cable.

Slowly, I started adding to this system more. screenshotting, Testflight management (like adding new users), feature flag switchers. It covers all the versions of the app in my corktree and allows me to improve my apps anywhere I roam. I also have a self-built version of Blink terminal that I am using to tunnel into my Mac via Tailscale and use Claude Code. However with and currently in combination with Claude Code remote control the terminal is almost not necessary anymore and I have a full development studio in my phone.

Do you have similar systems or do you still use Xcode? Would anybody be interested in this?

I have more than ten years of photos in the app. Apple photos is not good enough for rediscovery and coming back to my memories as is but cleaning it up (with apps or manually) takes too much mental bandwidth. So I thought: why not to give it another view that shows only important photos of your day. How do you select them? Several ways - of course you can use favorite tags but what if we add a way to also add a “do not show tag” and also a mechanism to select only one photo from bursts (based on location, timestamp,…) and a hero of a day rag. Then according to this prioritization we could show the selection day by day, including weekly/monthly summaries, while our original photos are sitting safely in the photos.app?

Plus I have already a prototype of photobook and videoreel concept that we can make available through the app, feeding off these curated pieces.

If anyone is interested, please drop a message, further ideas. I have a concept of this already built as a part of a larger lifelogging app but I am considering releasing it also independently, focusing only on the photo functionality. If at least 10 people are genuinely interested, I will make a free beta to try and further improve together.

For years I hoped Apple will come up with the journal app with tight integrations to iOS and was very disappointed when it happened. The app feels heavy on one hand and lacking a lot of features on the other. Automatic filtering of photos, better integration with locations and motion activities, hierarchical journalling, good voice input, CarPlay voice journals, actual security while still having to apple design principles, privacy stance and visual appeal. Unfortunately Apple Journal is not there yet.

So I had to build this for myself - it is called Retrography and if anybody is interested in free TestFlight, let me know, maybe if others find it useful we will take the effort to make it available.

Will uploading it into IndieAppCircle help?

https://reddit.com/link/1tu5c1c/video/5ur8zfeehq4h1/player

Over the weekend I found Remotion. Amazing thing when you hook it to your Claude Code. Basically you can programmatically create React animations. Good for generic promos. But what if you are working on a iOS app?

So I took the inspiration and build a SwiftUI version - all programmatic, can work on your existing codebase and render demo or promo videos. Works same way as remotion, creates a timeline from your SwiftUI components and renders it into video format. In the example I let it look into my codebase, rebuild from it the main screen view and add the zoom effects and other marketing bell and whistles.

Normally you can have your own clone running in a few hours or less, let me know if you are interested in more info. But still, would someone here be interested if I turned it into a product like with its own MacOS videoeditor app, predefined effects, skills,… Or are you already doing this and I just discovered something obvious? Recording screen capture seems so oldschool now.

https://reddit.com/link/1tu49to/video/i7ku85d0bq4h1/player

Over the weekend I found Remotion. Amazing thing when you hook it to your Claude Code. Basically you can programmatically create React animations. Good for generic promos. But what if you are working on a iOS app?

So I took the inspiration and build a SwiftUI version - all programmatic, can work on your existing codebase and render demo or promo videos. Works same way as remotion, creates a timeline from your SwiftUI components and renders it into video format. In the example I let it look into my codebase, rebuild from it the main screen view and add the zoom effects and other marketing bell and whistles.

Normally you can have your own clone running in a few hours or less, let me know if you are interested in more info. But still, would someone here be interested if I turned it into a product like with its own MacOS videoeditor app, predefined effects, skills,… Or are you already doing this and I just discovered something obvious? Recording screen capture seems so oldschool now.

Swoon? :)

Over the weekend I found Remotion. Amazing thing when you hook it to your Claude Code. Basically you can programmatically create React animations. Good for generic promos. But what if you are working on a iOS app?

So I took the inspiration and build a SwiftUI version - all programmatic, can work on your existing codebase and render demo or promo videos. Normally you can have your own clone running in a few hours. But still, would someone here be interested if I turned it into a product like with its own MacOS videoeditor app, predefined effects, skills,… Or are you already doing this and I just discovered something obvious? Recording screen capture seems so oldschool now.

https://reddit.com/link/1tu3t6v/video/d8wtzr348q4h1/player

For years I hoped Apple will come up with the journal app with tight integrations to iOS and was very disappointed when it happened. The app feels heavy on one hand and lacking a lot of features on the other. Automatic filtering of photos, better integration with locations and motion activities, hierarchical journalling, good voice input, CarPlay voice journals, actual security while still having to apple design principles, privacy stance and visual appeal. Unfortunately Apple Journal is not there yet.

So I had to build this for myself 😃. If anybody is interested in free TestFlight, let me know, maybe if others find it useful we will take the effort to make it available. More info on retrography.app

For years I hoped Apple will come up with the journal app with tight integrations to iOS and was very disappointed when it happened. The app feels heavy on one hand and lacking a lot of features on the other. Automatic filtering of photos, better integration with locations and motion activities, hierarchical journalling, good voice input, CarPlay voice journals, health, fitness, on this day, actual security while still having to apple design principles, privacy stance and visual appeal. Unfortunately Apple Journal is not there yet so I started putting it together myself. I have already more than a year of data in this and it helps me not lose the texture of my days.

https://preview.redd.it/v0lgkc8bc33h1.jpg?width=1206&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5244fcb185c169da9d423aafe4a8a3b6aa27dd2a

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Our phones capture framents of our lives like photos, places, steps, songs, notes. Most of it never really becomes memory. It just gets scattered across apps or completely forgotten.

I’m exploring the idea that the day is the basic unit of personal history. Not the photo, not the workout, not the calendar event but the day.

It is about a lot of data, but not necessarily focus on quantification. It is more than a journal with rich data integration and support. It plays with emotion, nostalgia, the itch to explore our past.

I’ve been building a private way to reconstruct ordinary days from those traces, so they can be returned to later as lived days, not scattered data.

Not productivity. Not self-optimization. More like a personal archive of ordinary life.

I’m looking for a few iPhone users interested in journaling, lifelogging, memory, or quantified self to test the idea and tell me what feels meaningful, confusing, or wrong.

No link here. I am not trying to make this a promo post. Comment or message me and I’ll send details.

Hi r/Notion,

After some time with Willow I built myself a local-only transcription app. Now I've been thinking about building a Mac quick-capture tool for Notion. The idea is a global hotkey: hold a key, talk, transcript lands in a designated Notion inbox or today's daily entry, no need to open Notion at all. Transcription would run locally on the Mac with whisper.cpp, so the audio itself never leaves your machine even though the final note ends up in Notion's cloud.

Existing things I've looked at:

1. Notion AI has voice on mobile, paid, and only works once you're already inside Notion.
2. Saner.AI, AudioPen, Voicen, and similar tools transcribe via cloud services (OpenAI Whisper API or Deepgram) and then post via the Notion API.
3. Apple Shortcuts has some hacky workflows but they break easily.

What I'd actually want, none of which I see cleanly today:

1. Global hotkey, zero context switch. Capture from any app, any focus.
2. Drop into a configurable inbox page or today's daily entry.
3. Voice tags. Say "tag: idea" mid thought and it sets a real Notion property, not the literal text.
4. Optional audio file attached to the block, in case you want to re-listen later.
5. Voice formatting commands like "new bullet", "new heading", "todo" while talking.

A few questions:

1. How do you actually capture voice thoughts into Notion right now? Is there a workflow you like, or do you just not bother and end up typing later?
2. Of those features, which would actually change how you use Notion vs. nice-to-have?
3. Mac only for v1, since the underlying dictation engine I'd use is Mac only. Dealbreaker, or fine for now?

If anyone has tried Saner.AI, AudioPen, Voicen, or similar, curious what worked and what didn't.