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Scrappy – Make little apps for you and your friends

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463 points 8organicbits | 3 comments | 18 Jun 25 05:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.415s | source
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tokioyoyo ◴[18 Jun 25 07:04 UTC] No.44307346[source]▶
One of the best things that I did was spending a week making a simple app that can put all my Apple Watch walks on a single big map, then sharing it with my friends after it got published on AppStore. It's been a year since I worked on it, but I still get messages from my friends (and some random people who found it!) how they've walked through an entire city or something. Really rewarding experience, despite having zero financial gains from it.

OP is right, making simple apps for your friends for fun!

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1. brador ◴[18 Jun 25 10:15 UTC] No.44308447[source]▶
Just think about the thousands of useless obstacles and moats you’ve had to navigate and overcome to make that. How many millions have given up at any one of them.

After all that you still control nothing and are vendor locked.

Imagine if you could just AI prompt that up and simply transfer to your open source watches.

What a world that would be.

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2. collingreen ◴[18 Jun 25 10:59 UTC] No.44308733[source]▶
Help build the world you want to see! It will take folks passionately trying to make this open, free, unmonetized vision a reality in competition with the walled gardens you're decrying. I wish you luck if you give it a go!
3. tokioyoyo ◴[18 Jun 25 11:45 UTC] No.44309014[source]▶
Fair point, but as I grew up, I realized those things really don’t matter to me. My thought process was — oh, I walk around a lot, I’m curious how much of the city I’ve covered -> oh, there’s no free app for that -> oh, I’ve never made an iOS app and this looks simple -> let’s spend a week making it and share it with friends.

As a side note, as I grew up, I realized I genuinely don’t care about the walled garden flame wars, and things alike. Life is pretty simple, I’d rather walked around a new neighbourhood and grab a pint.