For almost three years, I've been keeping a diary for my daughter.

It started with a simple Word document. Every evening I'd write down funny moments, milestones, and all the little things I knew we'd both forget one day.

When ChatGPT came out, my workflow changed. I'd record a voice note, let AI turn it into a diary entry, then copy everything back into Word.

It worked... but it was still frustrating.

After a while I realized that the real problem wasn't writing the memories down—it was the friction. When you're a parent, even a process that takes five minutes is often enough to make you skip it.

When AI coding became accessible, I finally decided to stop looking for the perfect app and just build the one I wanted myself.

At first, this wasn't meant to become a business. I simply wanted a place where I could send a voice message through Telegram or record directly on the web, attach photos, track my daughter's growth, and have everything organized in one timeline.

The result is that I actually document our life together almost every day now, because it's finally effortless.

One of my favorite moments is sitting next to my daughter and reading older entries together. She loves hearing stories about things she can't even remember anymore, and seeing her smile makes every hour I spent building this worth it.

Over time, friends and family saw what I was using and kept asking if they could use it too.

That made me realize I probably wasn't the only parent struggling with this problem.

So I decided to polish it up and launch it publicly.

One thing I've learned from building this is that the best product ideas don't always come from market research. Sometimes they come from solving a problem that annoys you every single day.

If anyone's curious, I decided to make it public. It's called Evermora:

https://evermora.ch

I'd genuinely love your honest feedback—not just on the product itself, but also on whether you think this is a problem worth solving.

Have you ever built something purely for yourself that unexpectedly turned into something other people wanted?

Netsight is a network scanner and security toolkit I built solo in Swift 6 / SwiftUI, targeting iOS 26. It does live LAN scanning, device fingerprinting (OUI/DNS/HTTP), a force-directed topology map, on-device AI analysis via Apple Foundation Models, and CVE lookups against the NVD database.

Happy to answer anything about the architecture or the security tooling.

Download it here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/netsight-wifi-tools/id6775736000

I built Stamped because finding great iOS apps started to feel like playing hide and seek.

The App Store tends to surface the same big brands year after year. Apps with large marketing budgets and established audiences get most of the visibility, while independent developers with genuinely useful apps often launch and disappear before anyone discovers them.
Then I started building my own apps and experienced the other side of the problem. Getting your app in front of real users is just as difficult as finding great apps in the first place.

That’s why I created Stamped.
Stamped is a community driven iOS app discovery platform where users can discover new apps, follow creators, leave ratings across five categories, and help quality apps gain visibility based on community feedback instead of marketing budgets.

If you’re an indie developer looking for more exposure, or someone who enjoys discovering apps beyond what’s featured on the App Store, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

https://stampedios.com/welcome

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

PMs, designers, and backend engineers on our team often needed to check a staging build. Sometimes they wanted to verify a layout, sometimes reproduce a bug, or just confirm that an API change behaved the way they expected.

Sending the build wasn't the hard part.

Actually running it was.

Most people didn't have Xcode or Android Studio set up, and asking them to install everything just to check one build wasn't realistic. The alternative was usually asking a mobile developer to install the app or share their screen, which happened more often than we'd have liked.

We looked at services like Appetize and BrowserStack, but they didn't really fit how we work. We already had Macs available internally, and we weren't comfortable uploading app binaries to an external service just so teammates could review a staging build.

So I started building an open-source tool that runs iOS simulators and Android emulators on a Mac and streams them to the browser.

The idea wasn't to replace TestFlight or Appetize. I just wanted an easier way for teammates to review staging builds without needing a mobile development setup.

It's still early (v0.x), but building it has taken me into a lot of areas I hadn't worked on before—video streaming, low-latency input forwarding, simulator orchestration, and React Native QA workflows.

I'm curious how other React Native teams handle this.

How do non-mobile developers on your team review staging builds?

• TestFlight?
• Internal APKs?
• BrowserStack or Appetize?
• Something else?

If you're interested, here's the project:

https://github.com/jo-duchan/tapflow

This is the app (called "LWP+"), and I've shown here the video that I've published there:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lb.lwp_plus

At first I was happy about what I created on the video, but then I thought that it looks more like a tutorial here, instead of maybe focusing on what's the most interesting. Surprisingly, ever since I've published the video, it actually got quite some views already (29 after 2 days), despite the fact it's a bit of a niche app. Still, I think maybe it can be improved.

I want to know what you guys think about the video (which has audio, BTW).

Here's about the app:

It's a live wallpaper app, that has these features:

1. Allows showing color/image/animation/video as content (users choose the file from the file system). No special effects so some users that complain about the dimming/zooming effects actually like using it. Users can also choose whether it should scroll or the type of automatic cropping.

2. Allows (some) control over the Material-You colors of the OS, as it lets users to choose the colors to report the OS about what's on the wallpaper. This means that like on Android 17, users can choose the colors they want (if the OS supports it) despite the content not matching it.

3. Setting of double-tap to lock the screen. Some launchers don't offer this, so I added it to the app too.

4. Some extra flags that (on some devices) should affect colors further, such as black/white text and/or black/white icons on status bar and/or lock screen and/or launcher.

The app is completely free, ad-based. Users can remove the ads including by just watching full screen ads. Originally it was created to offer dark-theme on devices as it wasn't a toggle on the OS settings, and was based on the colors of the wallpaper.

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 built ReNotify because I kept swiping notifications away on autopilot and then spending five minutes trying to remember what the thing even was. I also tried for days and weeks to collect RevnueCat Notifications to make a screenvideo for my X account, sadly they dissapeared after 1 Week if I remember correctly.

So I came up with this, I saw there are a few others, but I wanted to create my own.

Most notification history apps are just logs. You can read what you missed, but that is it. ReNotify actually pushes notifications back into your notification bar, with the original timestamp, the original app icon, and tap-to-open the source app. So it lands exactly where you expect it, not in some separate list you have to remember to check. It shows trends to your notifications as well, but it can do a few things more:

What it does:

- Records every incoming notification: app, title, message, exact time
- Resend one, several, or all of them back into the bar
- Snooze any notification like an alarm ("in 1 hour", or an exact time)
- Create your own notifications with a custom title, message and date
- Search the whole history by app, title or message text
- Notification Trends

Privacy side, since this app sees everything:

- Local-first, all data stays on the device
- No account, no sign-up, no cloud
- Per-app filter so you can exclude sensitive apps from being recorded
- CSV export if you want your data out

Two things worth being upfront about: it needs notification access, which is
requested on first launch and can be revoked any time. And whether every
notification gets captured depends on your OEM battery management, so the
app walks you through the relevant settings.

Play Store: ReNotify

l kept struggling to find Skia shader components that were actually ready to drop into an RN app. most shader code out there isn't built for RN's Skia renderer at all. So l put together my own library. Some shaders are free, others are from artists who charge for their work

l know ShaderToy exists, but that's generic GLSL you'd have to manually port to SkSL and adapt for RN UI. Мinе is already RN-Skia-ready and built specifically for UI components like buttons and panels etc.

Let me know if you'd use something like this

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 😊

[Android] CatchUp Voice — reads your texts aloud in the real voice of whoever sent them

Looking for honest feedback from Android users. 14-day free trial, no credit card needed to start.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rewiredforsuccess.catchupvoice

Would love to hear what you think after using it for a few days.

I've tried building a business 6 times. This is the first one where people are actually paying. I am building www.shipnative.dev

The idea: non-technical founders have app ideas but can't code, and hiring a developer costs $15k+ upfront with no guarantee it works. So I built a way for them to go from idea to a real iOS/Android app without touching code.

When I started, someone told me flat out I couldn't compete with the AI app builders that already have VC funding. What they missed is that most of those tools build web apps, not actual mobile apps. Nobody was really solving that specific gap.

Now at 600 users, growing without any ad spend, just word of mouth and people sharing it after they ship their first app.

The thing I didn't expect: the hardest part wasn't building the product, it was staying in the game long enough for attempt #6 to work. Every failed one taught me something the last one didn't.

Happy to answer questions if anyone's building something similar or stuck on the "how do I even start" part.

I saw a clip from a dating podcast where a group of girls were talking about their alternative to the dating apps, being getting together online and playing video games to talk to and meet people in a romantic context and it hit me!

Plyr 2 is a dating app specifically FOR gamers.

I do intend to eventually add a toggle to enable recording other activities the same as currently set up for gaming to find people based on interest but I definitely FINALLY went with "Make it first, then make it better."

So here it is!

This test flight is limited to 1000 users, because I DO want feedback, but at least for right now, I'm just one person.

[iOS Testflight](https://testflight.apple.com/join/KpNawynZ)

The big deal isn't gaming, that's permanently the theme, because it's a personal love and passion; but what's special about Plyr2, is VISIBILITY.

Every other dating platform, paid and free, (even Fb dating now!) has BOOSTING! Dating isn't meant to be pay to win. In case you don't know what boosting is: without it, you can swipe 1000 profiles that all get notified in their paywalled "matches", but very few of them are ever shown your face, just to keep you coming back.

Boosting will never be a Plyr2 feature, it's a core ethos, it matters to me, that everyone feel SEEN in a world that needs more love. More on that in a minute hehehe.

Every Plyr2 user will see every potential match that meets their filters, all you have to do is show up, not consistently, just "recently" is enough.

So how do we drive up user engagement?
Eventually Plyr2 will have dating challenges to "level up" your profile, and levels give you POINTS TO SPEND! Thes points will affect your mean weighted ranking of matches, rearranging the pool based on what is most important to you!
AND those preferences get more power, stronger, with time, as you level up, and spend more points (up to 25).

The matching algorithm already supports adding up to 25 points in any spread, across the categories, but again, I wanted to get this out, and start building matches, to help me build the features in the order the people want!

BUT another engagement technique I've already completed and baked in, is the Love bank. I know it has room for improvement, but once you elevate one of your matches to your "Player2", the two of you gain the ability to send each other love credits, as rewards, to be spent on items from your "shop" where you add things like "going on a date" or "massage" for your partner to spend credits on as positive reinforcement.

There is no negative reinforcement anywhere in the app, no streaks to fail to keep up with.

Ads will eventually get inserted so I can pay the bills for the real services already billing me for safe photo uploads, SMS # verification to keep bots out, ID checks on anyone reported, or who wishes to be "verified" are the most costly of them all.

Do you miss myspace? I promise, you don't have to be my friend, I won't be in your top 8, but whether you come as Player 1, for your Player 2, or as a couple looking for your Player 3, or just want to make new friends who play the same games on Player 4: there will be free and paid cosmetics soon, so that you can make your profile stand out from the rest, customize the art on your Player Card, and even the layout!

There will also be a growing selection free and paid frames for photo grids. The only other monetization strategy I have in mind is an ad free version that includes free ID verification.

This isn't meant to be mindlessly swiped through, it's meant to connect people, and grow love.

Player 3 is only available on Web for now, but I feel like it's a missing piece of a lot of dating apps.

Anyone who has spent time on one has seen "NO COUPLES" but that's not a thing on Plyr2, because there's a place for that, AWAY from everyone else. Messaging about it outside of Player 3's framework is an instaban. No one is being excluded, I do have to slightly censor 😝 but everyone, is welcome, on Plyr2.

**On privacy, since it's a dating app**

* Your phone number is stored only as a one-way hash
* Your exact coordinates never leave the backend; it converts them to a ZIP code and drops the rest
* GPS data is stripped out of every photo you upload
* There is no analytics SDK in the app. Not "we anonymise it"; there isn't one. On a dating app, which screens you visit is the sensitive part
* Every photo is checked before anyone else can see it, and report and block are on every profile and every conversation

**Android**

The Android build exists, it just hasn't been through a beta track yet; that's coming soon. Comment or DM if you want to be on it and I'll come back to you when it opens, or if you want to make my life easier, drop your email over on
[FindYourPlayer2.com](https://findyourplayer2.com)

**What I'd most like broken**

Sign-up and the SMS code, photo upload and reordering, "Use my location", and anything that looks wrong on your particular device, especially text overlapping the status bar or running off the edge. Tell me the device and iOS version and I'll chase it.

If a lot of people find the nifty gaming font too hard to read, I'll happily change it, usability matters most, of course.

I know the feeling: You sit down at a small local restaurant, get the menu and think:

“Okay… what does any of this actually say?” 😂

Sometimes the language is unfamiliar. Sometimes you can't even read the script. And once you're away from the tourist areas, English isn't always an option either.

Then there’s the next problem: How much is this actually in my own currency? What's in the dish? Does it fit my diet? And if you have allergies, how do you explain all of that?

That's basically how VikSchewa started.

With VikSchewa, you can:

📸 Translation & ingredients
💱 Prices in your own currency
⚠️ Hidden ingredients & allergens
🎯 A personal 0–100 match
🤖 An AI image of what the dish might look like
🗣️ Help ordering in the local language

My personal favorite feature is the Allergen Pass.

You save your allergies once and can show the restaurant exactly what you need to avoid in their language — in 85 languages and offline.

There are also 536 dishes available offline.

I basically wanted an app that would make me a little less nervous about unfamiliar menus and encourage me to try the small local restaurant around the corner instead of always going somewhere made for tourists.

VikSchewa is still very new, so I'd genuinely love to hear:

What's the thing that annoys you most about eating abroad? 😄

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vikschewa-men%C3%BC-scanner/id6775580751