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Every family dinner, someone's always got their head down scrolling and watchinf reels or gossiping about a friend. I tried the whole "phones away" thing. Didn't work.

So I built Party Line, a free app with party games designed for people who are physically in the same room. Open the app, share a code, and everyone's in within seconds. No accounts, no ads, no setup.

It's got three games right now:

• Word War — Race to guess a secret word. Use jinxes to mess with other players.
• Smarty Pants — Kids vs. adults trivia, with rounds that get harder and worth more points.
• Doodle Do! — Draw and guess. Bad artists welcome (actually preferred).

The whole point was to make something that uses the phone addiction against itself — instead of everyone staring at their own screen, you're all yelling at each other's screens.

Free on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/my/app/party-line-table-games/id6796210448

Would love to know if this hits for anyone else's family

Every family dinner, someone's always got their head down scrolling and watchinf reels or gossiping about a friend. I tried the whole "phones away" thing. Didn't work.

So I built Party Line, a free app with party games designed for people who are physically in the same room. Open the app, share a code, and everyone's in within seconds. No accounts, no ads, no setup.

It's got three games right now:

• Word War — Race to guess a secret word. Use jinxes to mess with other players.
• Smarty Pants — Kids vs. adults trivia, with rounds that get harder and worth more points.
• Doodle Do! — Draw and guess. Bad artists welcome (actually preferred).

The whole point was to make something that uses the phone addiction against itself — instead of everyone staring at their own screen, you're all yelling at each other's screens.

Free on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/my/app/party-line-table-games/id6796210448

Would love to know if this hits for anyone else's family

Every family dinner, someone's always got their head down scrolling and watchinf reels or gossiping about a friend. I tried the whole "phones away" thing. Didn't work.

So I built Party Line, a free app with party games designed for people who are physically in the same room. Open the app, share a code, and everyone's in within seconds. No accounts, no ads, no setup.

It's got three games right now:

• Word War — Race to guess a secret word. Use jinxes to mess with other players.
• Smarty Pants — Kids vs. adults trivia, with rounds that get harder and worth more points.
• Doodle Do! — Draw and guess. Bad artists welcome (actually preferred).

The whole point was to make something that uses the phone addiction against itself — instead of everyone staring at their own screen, you're all yelling at each other's screens.

Free on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/my/app/party-line-table-games/id6796210448

Would love to know if this hits for anyone else's family

I live in the Philippines. Typhoons, earthquakes, floods. One day I asked myself an uncomfortable question: if a disaster hit right now and signal was completely gone, does my family have an actual plan?

Not supplies. A plan. Where do we go? Where do we meet? How does anyone know if something happened to me?
The answer was no. And every emergency app I found needed internet to work, which is exactly when you do not have it.

So I spent the last year building one.

The core feature is an offline map. Before a disaster hits, you pin your evacuation routes, family meeting points, and safe zones. When signal drops, you open the app and the plan is already there. It also comes preloaded with 484+ hospitals, police stations, pharmacies, and fire stations within 10 km of you. No setup. No internet. Just works.
Everything else is offline too. Go-bag tracker per family member, 28 survival guides, CPR timer, emergency numbers, document vault for your IDs and insurance cards.
I priced it at $4.99 one-time with no subscription. Felt wrong to build a safety app that expires when you forget to renew.

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake just hit Mindanao today, which is a horrible reminder of why this thing exists. People are being told to evacuate right now with no signal. That is exactly the scenario I built this for.

The thing I am genuinely stuck on is reviews. The app has real users but very few written reviews, and for a paid app that really hurts conversion. If anyone has cracked review prompting for paid apps I would love to hear how you did it.
Also curious if anyone here has gone freemium after launching paid. My gut says paid builds more trust for a safety critical app but I honestly do not know.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/survivalkit-emergency-guide/id6766275190

Android coming soon.