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Built a family app where presence drives HomeKit — who's home, lights/locks in one view
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Built a family app where presence drives HomeKit — who's home, lights/locks in one view

I'm an iOS dev and a HomeKit nerd, so I built the thing my family actually uses. Two rules: only features we use ourselves, and it has to feel native.

Right now it shows who's home (background presence, no check-ins), plus lights, temperature and a lock-all button on the same screen. There's a Home Screen widget for presence + lock.

What I keep going back and forth on: should arrivals be able to trigger scenes directly, or is that Home app's job and I should stay out of it? Curious what you'd want.

Happy to drop a link if anyone wants it.

u/serginio89 — 11 days ago
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I built an app to show where your family is — and a bit more

A minimalist app for one family — quickly see who's where, without precise location tracking. Plus shared essentials: important dates you can't afford to forget and a shared shopping list. Beautiful widgets for your home screen and CarPlay come as a bonus.

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u/serginio89 — 11 days ago
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My family presence app is live — deliberately not a location tracker. Would love feedback

Hearthkin is a private family app I've been building on my own for the past while: who's home, a shared shopping list, one shared note, important dates, and HomeKit state (lights, temp, lock-all) surfaced on the home screen and in widgets.

The design constraint I started from: it's not a tracker. No live map dots, no breadcrumb history. Presence is a status — "home" or "at work" — not a position you can watch. That ruled out a lot of features the incumbents in this space lean on, which I think was the right call but it does make the pitch harder.

It's live and it works. The problem now is that it surfaces almost exclusively on exact-name search, so nobody finds it unless they already know it exists. Building the thing took months; getting anyone to see it turns out to be a completely separate skill I don't have yet.

For anyone who's shipped a consumer app: what actually moved visibility early on — ads, content, community, or just time on the store?

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u/serginio89 — 21 days ago