Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

Was looking for an iOS app to always see my age in days on the lock screen. Didn‘t find one, so I first created a shortcut which would change my lock screen background image each night and overlay the number of days on it.

This didn’t feel integrated enough and could fail if the phone was off, so I started looking into Swift and created my first app [1] with added features like contact import and notifications for other people‘s ages in days.

It‘s still very much a work in progress but the core functionality of the lock screen widget is something I use almost every day to quickly get the current number and use it for notes etc. I just like having an incrementing unique-to-me number to reference stuff.

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/days-of-life-milestones/id6738...

nice job , I think I can do something like that on with my linux desktop. Great idea , it can give a sense of how many days how many hours I have lived on this earth and maybe even by a average time , show how much time is left (yes it won't be predictable , but I also don't want to procastinate thinking there is a tomorrow , I think I like steve jobs quote in the manner that he said live your life as if its the last hour or something like that.