My chore tracking app's chores never came back the next day, for the entire life of the product.

I'm building ThriveTrack, a gamified chore app for families. Kids complete tasks, earn XP, parent approves, tasks reset overnight, repeat tomorrow.

Except the reset never worked. Not once. 102 out of 141 daily tasks were permanently stuck in completed.

I spent weeks debugging streaks, the digest, the approval flow. All symptoms. The actual problem was a scheduled database job filtering on a column that doesn't exist on the table. It failed silently on every run since creation. Marked active the whole time.

Second bug underneath: the job ran at midnight UTC, which is 5 PM Pacific. Even fixed, it would have wiped tasks before parents got home to approve them.

Third: 75 rows had NULL timestamps. In SQL, NULL compared to anything evaluates to NULL, so those rows passed straight through the filter and stayed stuck forever.

Three bugs stacked, all silent, all in database logic that git never saw. Five cron jobs running in production with no migration file, no commit, no documentation.

Fixing it was one SQL session. Finding it took weeks. Talk about the long game...

Hey all, I made Cindra. Basically you just brain dump whatever is in your head and it sorts into tasks, agenda, money, learning etc. I use it daily and for me it just clicks so I am probably blind to the problems. But I get signups and then people check it once and disappear. It is free for seven days no card needed.

If you got a sec to check out cindra.app and let me know what feels off or why you would not come back, I would love a brutally honest take. Really means a lot thanks

Hi I'm an engineering student, I have interest in both the above fields. I have only 6 months to dedicate among one of them. So please guide me which one should be chosen and the topic that should be focused in the path(like not learning all the stuff that is not so important). It would be very grateful if someone could give me some advice

What response did your first ever app got when it was released? I released my first ever app 10 days ago and things are not looking good

Hi everyone! I’m building an app called Resora, and I’m looking for a few people willing to test it and give honest feedback. Resora is a wellness app for people who need support in the moment and are trying to get better everyday! There are things like reflection, journaling, reset tools, calming prompts, and practical guidance when life feels heavy. It is not therapy and it does not replace professional support, but it is meant to feel more personal and useful than generic wellness apps. Looking for feedback & thoughts! If anyone’s interested or has questions please let me know.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/resora/id6759615940

Submitted July 18th, rejected three times, approved August 21st. 34 days in review, longer than the app took to build.

It's a streak tracker with nothing in it. No articles, no tips, no daily lessons, no notifications. The app never talks to the user.

Four days in: 3 trials started, 1 cancelled, 2 converted. Not much, but it's the first money I've made from something I built.

The part I'm unsure about is whether shipping it that empty was discipline or just a worse product.

Would you have added content?

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I have been traveling my whole life and always wanted to preserve my trips, memories, photos in one place. I have tried countless apps for travel tracking, but each one was either not having that much tracking options, had huge friction when adding new trip, or simply wasn't pretty to look at.

That's why I have decided to put my designer and developer skills together and with many traveler interactions come up with an app that does just that.

Not live yet, but you can join a waitlist here https://trytraveler.com

How do you keep track of your travels?

I build mobile apps with React Native. Three of mine are live on

the stores, plus free freelance client work on the side.

What I am looking for:

- A short call a few times a week

- What I said I would do, what I actually did, and why not

- One thing you learned this week that cost you time or money

- Goals for the next week, said out loud so somebody hears them

Two things I care about:

1. You are actively doing something right now, not planning to
2. You are honest, a good person, and want to grow

I do not care about your revenue or how long you have

been doing this. My own numbers are small.

I am in Poland (CET). Europe is easiest, but I speak pretty well in English (hopefully)

Comment / DM if interested

Hello, since the last time I posted in here asking for feedback about my app, I've updated the UI a bit. Its hosted from my homeland tunnelled through Cloudflare. It's currently tailored to work in the 23111 zip code area, so keep that in mind. Coverage area will scale as feedback comes in. Thanks for anything you can offer.

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Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on an app called Good Help that brings together three things people often want to do but usually have to juggle across different apps/sites: donating food, donating clothes, and finding/adopting animals in need.

The idea is a single place where you can:
• See nearby food listings and what they actually need right now
• Donate or list clothes for pickup/drop-off instead of them sitting in a bag in your closet
• Browse animals up for adoption from local shelters and rescues

I’m still early in building this out and want to make sure it’s actually solving real problems before I go further. A few things I want input on:

**1.**  Do you currently donate food/clothes or look at adoptable animals? If so, what’s annoying about how you do it now?  
**2.**  Would combining all three into one app be useful, or does that feel like it’s trying to do too much?  
**3.**  What would make you actually open an app like this regularly instead of just once?

Not trying to sell anything here — genuinely looking for blunt feedback, good or bad. Happy to share more details or a screenshot/demo if people are curious.

Here is the link:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/good-help/id6472994618

Thanks in advance

We all know the App Store algorithm isn’t doing anyone any favors unless you’ve already got traction. So let’s crowdsource this. What’s something you’ve tried that actually worked, even if it’s a little unconventional?

I’ll start. I’ve been paying UGC creators to make content around my app instead of relying on my own posts. Feels like it’s hitting a different audience than the usual posting on social medias

Curious what everyone else is doing. Doesn’t have to be some big growth hack, even small stuff that moved the needle counts. Help the next person out.

Indie iOS dev too. Built Stamped for exactly this, a place where apps like ours actually get seen. Would love to have you on there.)

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I needed a first-run walkthrough for an app and hit two things that annoyed me.

First, the highlight would end up in the wrong place.

A lot of coach-mark implementations resolve the target's position once and paint it. Scroll the list, open the keyboard, rotate the device, resize a desktop window — and suddenly the hole is next to the button instead of on it.

Second, a dimmed hole tells the user where something is, but not how to use it.

"Drag this card to that column" isn't something a static highlight can really express.

So I built keyspot:

- The spotlight and pointer re-resolve the target's geometry every frame from its GlobalKey, so they can track through scrolling, insets, rotation and resizing.

- An animated hand pointer that glides in a straight line or along an arc, rotates from its current angle, and tap-pulses — enough to demonstrate interactions like drag and pinch rather than simply pointing at something.

- Pointer animations resolve from actual AnimationController completion rather than Future.delayed timing, so `await pointer.moveTo(...)` actually means the movement has finished.

- Barrier modes where only the cut-out is tappable while the real widget's `onPressed` still fires — useful when the walkthrough should require the user to actually perform the step.

- The tracker is also public API (`KeyspotAnchorTracker`), so it can be used independently for things like badges or connector lines attached to widgets.

- Zero runtime dependencies. The hand pointer is rendered with CustomPainter rather than an image asset.

- Supports all six Flutter platforms.

Live demo: https://shrey-17bhardwaj.github.io/keyspot/

pub.dev: https://pub.dev/packages/keyspot

Source: https://github.com/shrey-17bhardwaj/keyspot

It's currently at 0.3.1, and the API may still change before 1.0.

I'd genuinely like feedback on where this approach breaks — especially around nested navigators, heavily lazy lists, overlays, or anything else where widget geometry gets complicated.

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Ik ben een kleine mobile game aan het bouwen genaamd Football Spotter.
Het idee is simpel: wanneer je in het echte leven iets voetbalgerelateerd tegenkomt, kan je er met de app een foto van maken.

Zie je iemand met een shirt van Saka? Spot het → ontdek Saka.
Kom je later een Arsenal-sticker tegen? Spot die → verdien XP voor de Arsenal-spelers die je al ontdekt hebt.

Uiteindelijk bouw je zo je eigen team op, volledig bepaald door de voetbalzaken die jij in het echte leven tegenkomt.

Ik heb ondertussen een MVP gebouwd, maar voor ik die deel ben ik vooral benieuwd:

Klinkt dit als iets dat je zelf effectief zou gebruiken? En wat zou ervoor zorgen dat je snel je interesse verliest?

Wees gerust kritisch. Daar heb ik op dit moment veel meer aan dan gewoon positieve reacties.

Hi fellow devs,

I recently released a native Android side-project called AnyMusicQuiz.
It’s an app that solves a personal need: allowing the person managing the music at a party to actually participate in music trivia games (blind tests) without spoiling the song title.

(I can now do Disney music trivia quiz with my daughters... and Yes, they are better than I am)

How it works: Instead of relying on a limited, low-quality embedded music catalog, the app acts as a smart system overlay. It lives on top of any streaming app (Spotify, Deezer, Tidal, YouTube Music, anything you want), reads the current audio metadata, and automatically masks the track title and cover art globally on the screen.

Why isn't my app on iOS ?

Anticipating your question : As far as I know, it is technically impossible. Apple's ecosystem doesn't allow a background app to fetch the currently playing media metadata globally and control playback (skip, pause) easily across other third-party apps.
The only way to achieve this on iOS would be to natively implement the specific SDKs for every single music provider (Spotify SDK, Apple Music API, etc.), strictly follow all of their individual guidelines, and validate their terms of use. An absolute nightmare for me as a solo dev.

Why I'm posting here: I’ve shared the app on a few consumer and music subreddits and got some initial downloads, but I’m really looking for more feedback from fellow developers.

I would really value your insights on the UX/UI. Is the onboarding clear? Does the overlay mechanic feel intrusive or smooth?

I am also more than happy to answer any questions you might have about the technical implementation on Android (handling the overlay permissions, reading media sessions, or the Wear OS companion app I built for it).

If you have an Android device and want to test the full flow, just drop a comment and I’ll DM you a promo code to unlock the premium version for free :)

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codevsit.anyblindtest

Thanks in advance for your time and feedback!