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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

439 points david927 | 4 comments | 29 Jun 25 20:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.781s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?
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tokioyoyo ◴[29 Jun 25 21:56 UTC] No.44416831[source]▶
I wrote a simple app last year that put all my Apple Watch workout routes on a simple map, so I can see how much of the city I’ve covered (all existing options were paid, and I was too cheap for it). Now I have some time, so rewriting it properly that’s based on neighbourhood, completion %s, achievements and etc. It’s weirdly fun, because I’m not a mobile engineer, but satisfying to see hundreds of users per month using my app.

Also, every region has different ways of representing a “neighbourhood”, so I get to learn how to extract viable data from each city. Lots of map stuff, I’m genuinely enjoying it!

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1. this-pony ◴[29 Jun 25 22:19 UTC] No.44417061[source]▶
Did you look at the squadrats app? It’s compatible with strava also. It sounds quite similar to what you describe.
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2. KomoD ◴[29 Jun 25 22:36 UTC] No.44417216[source]▶
There's wandrer.earth as well, though it's based on roads, not neighborhoods or squares
3. tokioyoyo ◴[29 Jun 25 22:36 UTC] No.44417219[source]▶
Not Squadrats, but I've checked out some others, like CityStrides. There were a few problems though:

- It felt like what I wanted to achieve is pretty simple (GPS coordinates -> display all on the same map), so didn't want to subscribe for a monthly fee. I couldn't actually find an app that would dump all my HealthKit data directly onto the map, which was surprising.

- Last year when I wrote my app, I wanted to see how fast I can learn simple mobile development loop

- Now, I couldn't really find anything that divides the coverage areas into real-world neighbourhoods. So, think of West Village of NYC, or Yorkville in Toronto, or Yoyogi in Shibuya and etc. Back when I used to live in Vancouver, I would look at my own app, and kinda say in my head "aight, I've walked through every street in West End, Vancouver". Figured it would be cool to have a proper way of tracking it. So working on it currently.

- It's kinda fun to work on an app for my own needs

I'll take a look at the squadrats though! Looks pretty cool.

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4. hucklebuckle ◴[30 Jun 25 16:04 UTC] No.44424870[source]▶
Is your app on TestFlight?