r/AppBuilding

Most screen time apps just show you stats or block apps you can bypass in two taps. They don't create any real reason to change.

So I built one that adds actual stakes: get matched with an accountability buddy who sees your screen-time stats and keeps you honest, or join a challenge where you commit to a goal and put money on the line. Fail, and you pay. Succeed, and you build real discipline.

Waitlist is live now: screenchallengebuddy.com

🎉 After more than a month of waiting… my first app is finally LIVE!

I honestly can’t describe how happy I am right now. This is the first app I’ve ever published, and seeing it actually live after all the work, testing, fixes, and waiting feels amazing. 🚀

I’d really appreciate it if you could check it out and give it a try!

👉 Download here: App Link

Since this is my first release, your feedback would mean a lot to me. I’d especially love to hear:

• What was your first impression of the app?
• Was anything confusing or difficult to use?
• What features would you like to see next?
• Did you notice any bugs or things that could be improved?

Even if you only have a few minutes to download it and try it out, I’d genuinely appreciate it.

I’m already thinking about future updates, so suggestions from real users will help me decide what to improve and build next.

And for the other developers here — I’d love to hear about your first app launch too. How did it feel when you finally saw your first app go live? 😄

Thanks everyone! ❤️ Looking forward to your feedback (good or bad — both are useful!).

App: Countdown Pro App
Download: Play Store Link

I got tired of screen time apps that just notify if you cross a limit and block the app. Most blockers are easy to bypass, and there's zero real cost when you fail anyway, so nothing changes.

So I built Screen Challenge Buddy with actual skin in the game. You get the usual usage stats dashboard, but the real difference is two features:

Social Accountability - An accountability buddy who sees your screen-time stats in real time and keeps you honest through actual conversation.

Financial Accountability - Challenges where you commit to a screen-time goal and put money on the line. Miss the goal, you pay. Stay in limit, you build screen time discipline.

Turns out having something real to lose and being answerable to someone is a much stronger motivator than a notification telling you that you've "exceeded your limit" for the tenth time.

Right now the app is up for Pre-registration on Google Play. Launch is due in a weeks time. Only early pre-registered users will get one-time exclusive early-bird discount on launch! Grab your spots now!

I have built a security companion called Whispr. It has AES 256 encryption for passwords and TOTP codes, aling with a security companion coach, and domain reliability checker.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitwisedhruv.whispr

I need honest feedback on this app. Should I build a business around this?

For anyone wondering, the app I'm working on is https://www.AppScout.co.

It helps people discover web and mobile apps from across the internet by showing them one app at a time. People like apps in order to get personalized app recommendations.

If you run a software startup or side project, you can list it for free to get free extra traffic here:https://www.appscout.co/submit/

(Affiliation Disclosure: I'm the sole creator and developer behind AppScout.)

I build 12-month cash flow forecasts for companies all day. My own bank account was a disaster for years.

I knew the theory. Every end of month was still the same: balance lower than expected, no idea why, I'll build a spreadsheet this weekend, never did it. Three times I downloaded a budgeting app and quit within two weeks.

What finally clicked wasn't discipline. It was noticing that no company on earth steers by its bank balance. No director looks at "how much is in the account" to make a call. You look at flows and projections. Individuals do the exact opposite. We stare at the balance, which is a snapshot, and never watch the film.

So I checked what existed. They're all retrospective. They're genuinely good at telling you where last month went. Not one of them tells you what your balance looks like in six months if you keep going like this. That's not a missing feature, it's a different product.

The other thing that killed every app for me was forty categories. I spent more time filing transactions than deciding anything. So I built mine with three. Fixed, constrained variable, chosen variable. That's the whole taxonomy.

I'm an accountant, not a developer. I learned Swift for this. The parts nobody warns you about:

Incorporating took four rejections from the French registry. Confidentiality request, beneficial ownership filing, one article in the bylaws, an address mismatch. Two-week wait each round.

Bank integration was the real wall. In Europe you can't scrape bank data, you go through a licensed aggregator under PSD2. I integrated Powens.

App Store localization in seven languages. Underestimated that by about a factor of three.

It's called Finsee. Europe market only for now, because of the PSD2 rails. Every expense updates the future of your balance, so you don't see what you spent, you see what it does to you.

Happy to answer anything on the accounting-to-iOS route, PSD2 integration, or French company setup. The registry rejections taught me more than any tutorial.

I’m building THE LINEUP, a sports betting analytics app that helps users find +EV bets, compare odds across books, and track whether the edge was actually executable.

The original version was way too “dashboard-first.” Lots of tables, numbers, grades, and filters. Useful if you already understood EV betting, but probably overwhelming if you didn’t.

What I’m learning now is that the harder product problem isn’t just finding edges. It’s making the edge feel trustworthy:

• Where did the fair price come from?
• How fresh is the line?
• Has the number already moved?
• Is this an EV+ market signal or a projection model signal?
• Would a real bettor actually be able to place this?

So I’ve been rebuilding the product around clearer explanations, fresher odds snapshots, and less “trust me bro” pick presentation.

Would love feedback from other builders on two things:

1. For a data-heavy product, how much methodology do you show before it becomes clutter?
2. If you were evaluating a betting analytics tool, what would make you trust or distrust it fastest?

The app is paid, but I’m happy to give free trials to people who want to poke around and give honest product feedback: https://thelineup.pro

After developing for 6 months, finally my app is live and it's a great feeling tbh.

The app mainly for Muslim community but I developed in a way that actually anyone can use it.

It basically turn your social media addictive into a reminder to read quran.

You can try it

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wird.blocker

And give feedback 😊

I got tired of managing company assets in spreadsheets, so I built my own mobile asset management app.

Most tools I found were either:

Too expensive

Too complex

Enterprise-focused

Not mobile friendly

So I created Comodo — a simple asset management app focused on: ✅ Asset tracking

✅ Inventory management

✅ Employee assignment

✅ QR/barcode support

✅ Fast mobile access

It’s mainly designed for small businesses, technicians, warehouses, and teams that just want a clean and easy system without heavy enterprise setup.

Still improving it actively and adding features based on feedback from users.

Would genuinely appreciate feedback from IT admins, storekeepers, technicians, or anyone managing equipment daily.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.comodo

I've been working on Life Vault, a mobile app designed to keep important personal information organized in one secure place.

The app is already largely built, and I'm now opening up the product to the developer/community feedback as part of my Shipaton journey.

The problem I'm trying to solve is pretty simple:

Important information is usually scattered across:

• PDF files
• Email attachments
• Google Drive/iCloud
• Notes apps
• Physical folders
• Screenshots
• Different apps

Life Vault brings these into one organized vault.

One feature I'm particularly interested in getting feedback on is Smart Binders.

For example, a user could create:

Home Purchase

and define rules that automatically collect:

• Home Loan
• Mortgage documents
• Closing Disclosure
• Property documents
• Home Insurance
• Tax documents

Instead of manually moving every document into a folder, the binder updates automatically when matching documents are added.

I'm currently trying to decide how flexible the rules should be.

For example:

Option A — ANY rule
Tag = mortgage OR
Category = Home Loan OR
Tag = home

Option B — ALL rules
Category = Financial
AND Tag = mortgage

What would make more sense to you as a user?

And if you were building something like this, what would you change about the organization model?

I'm particularly interested in feedback from Android developers because I'm also thinking about the UX and architecture behind this feature.

I'm documenting the journey publicly for Shipaton 2026 and will share the changes that come from community feedback.

Life Vault is currently available on Google Play if you'd like to see the actual product:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.techxonia.lifevault

#BuildInPublic #Shipaton

I'd love to get some feedback on the AppStore images, spent forever on these, but still not a designer by trade, so I'm sure there's still much that can be improved!

Appstore link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/passport-stamps-travel-map/id6749786209

Thanks in advance!

we all something, these days everyone is building something. We've actually been obsessed with creating something. And that's what we're doing.

A few months ago, i built a small app, I started paying more attention to what people were saying about the products we were using. It was surprisingly messy.

One useful comment was on Reddit. Another was buried in an App Store review. Someone mentioned a feature they wanted on X. Then a competitor launched something interesting, and we almost missed it.

The weird part was that all of this information was available. We just didn't have a good way of putting it all together.

At some point, I realized I was spending more time on building in features instead of listening to the customer and understanding it

So we started building something for ourselves. That's how Mindphor started.

It brings customer feedback and competitor activity together and uses AI to find the patterns that are easy to miss when you're checking everything manually. You can use it for your both android and ios apps.

It's still early, and we're learning a lot from putting it in front of other founders.

We're launching it now, so if you're building an app and this sounds like a problem you've run into, I'd genuinely love to hear how you deal with it today.

Here's the link: Mindphor