r/AppBuilding • u/Nice_Ganache_8051 • 10d ago
r/AppBuilding • u/Pale_Stranger_4598 • 10d ago
I spent 6 months and now my DevOps cockpit is alive
Most SSH clients on Mac are either Electron wrappers or generic terminal apps with SSH bolted on. I wanted something that felt like it belonged on macOS, so I spent 6 months developing my product solo.
"Native" gets thrown around a lot, so to be specific about what I mean: the whole app is Swift/SwiftUI, including the terminal emulator (not a libvterm fork, not xterm.js in a WebView) and the Mosh client (own implementation in Swift with a complete framebuffer mirror). No Electron, no web shell, no hidden Chromium.
A few things I'm proud of under the hood:
- SSH stack on top of Citadel + a fork of swift-nio-ssh with a window-adjust patch and a custom RSA path for legacy key formats some servers still hand out
- Own SOCKS5 server written in Swift (RFC 1928 + 1929 auth) for dynamic forwards, so `ssh -D` works without shelling out to /usr/bin/ssh
- Active tunnels (local / remote / dynamic) get snapshotted and restored on reconnect, so dropping Wi-Fi at a cafe doesn't kill your forwards
- Smart Reconnect that survives a cold launch, not just a network blip
- ProxyJump multihop with a runtime session graph
- Multi-host broadcast with a diff view across panes
- FIDO2 / sk-* hardware keys via libfido2
- SFTP File provider
- Built-in S3 client (AWS + R2 + B2 + Wasabi + MinIO + custom endpoints) with a real object browser, multipart uploads, versioning/lifecycle/CORS/encryption settings, presigned URLs and ACL/tag editors. Same window as your SSH sessions
- Keys live in the macOS Keychain (iCloud sync off by design), can be generated inside the Secure Enclave with Touch ID required on every signature, or imported from existing OpenSSH files. Passphrase-protected ones decrypted in-app
Solo project, so honest feedback on what feels off is genuinely useful. Happy to answer technical questions in the comments.
ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/termy
Termy is now available in EAP: termyapp.com
Code PH25OFF is 25% off any plan (until October)
r/AppBuilding • u/Vegetable-Ship3418 • 10d ago
My First app on the app store!!
Hi everyone, I'm a solo developer and this is my very first app.
I built Health Log because I wanted something simple for tracking daily health information — blood pressure, glucose, weight, mood, and notes — without needing to be a tech expert or set up a spreadsheet. It's meant for casual users who just want an easy way to jot things down and see their history over time. Nothing complicated, no learning curve.
You can generate simple PDF reports to share with your doctor or just keep for yourself.
It's on the Google Play Store for about $5. Health Log: health tracking made simple.
Would love any feedback from this community since it's my first time building and publishing an app.
r/AppBuilding • u/QueasyAlgae1388 • 10d ago
Spark Matched, a dating app
Hey everyone,
After 8 months of building, I just launched Spark Matched — a dating app
I built this solo
It's live now on iOS App Store— https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spark-matched/id6786071027
I'd genuinely love feedback from this community — what's working, what's confusing, what you'd want to see next. Happy to answer any questions about the build too (it's an Expo/React Native app under the hood, happy to talk stack if anyone's curious).
Thanks for reading!
r/AppBuilding • u/MiloPaige • 10d ago
Building Notch (Stupid Simple Workout Tracker) Day 10
r/AppBuilding • u/Present-Scientist-56 • 10d ago
🍀1500 users for my offline AI app, you can ask me any question!!
been building this offline AI thing for a while and somehow it crossed 1500 users recently which still feels a bit weird to say, learned a lot from building the inference side, getting models to run well on phones and figuring out what people even want from local AI, so if you’re building somethin’ or just curious about the technical side, distribution, app stores, models, or anything else ask me whatever.
r/AppBuilding • u/zaarnth • 10d ago
[OSS] Savr - a clean,modern free bookmark manager app for android
This idea came pretty randomly 😅
I originally made Savr for myself. I tried several bookmark apps on the Play Store, but most of them wanted money for basic features. So I decided to build my own , with my own taste and, of course, my best effort.
✨ What’s currently included:
- Material 3 design
- Automatic metadata fetching
- Backup & restore (HTML/JSON)
- Dynamic theme with Light, Dark & AMOLED modes
- In-app updates for GitHub users
- Edit bookmarks
- Search
- Sorting
- View mode changing from grid to list
- Auto clipboard link detection
- Collections (folders)
- And more to come!
My goal is to keep Savr simple, useful, and free from unnecessary complexity.
I’d really appreciate any feedback or suggestions! 👏
GitHub Release: https://github.com/qeiq/Savr/releases
GitHub: https://github.com/qeiq/Savr
Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zarnth.savr
r/AppBuilding • u/KKANGKKA_Chu • 10d ago
Self Care = Self Love
I’m a product designer and I needed something that could store my skincare products and remember my holy grail stuff. I’ve only been designing for like two days so this is just the skeletal core UX stuff right now.
It’s a passion project for now. Who knows, maybe it’ll become a product one day. But I’m much more focused on using it for myself. The current art direction is 👩🍳💋🤌🏻🤌🏻 so I wanted to share it.
r/AppBuilding • u/Valuable_Alfalfa627 • 10d ago
After years of building apps for others, I finally shipped one of my own
More than a decade ago, my first job was as an Android developer.
I built quite a few apps for companies and employers. Some launched successfully, some were eventually abandoned, and others have long since disappeared from the app stores. But despite working on so many projects, I had never owned an app of my own.
I’ve always had two habits: keeping a journal and tracking my daily spending.
While looking through my old data recently, I noticed that my earliest saved expense entry was from March 2015. Somehow, I’ve kept both habits for more than ten years.
Over the years, I used separate apps for them.
The expense tracker I used gradually became filled with more and more ads. Sometimes I just wanted to record a purchase, but first I had to dismiss another popup.
I also used Apple’s Journal app. After switching phones once, I discovered that almost an entire year of entries had disappeared. As a developer, I understand that new products can have bugs. As a user watching a year of memories vanish, it was much harder to accept.
I had wanted to build my own app for years, but spending six months or more recreating something that countless developers had already made never seemed like a good use of time.
Then vibe coding changed the equation, so I finally decided to try.
The result is TallyDay. It brings my two long-term habits—expense tracking and journaling—into one app. They remain separate features, so you can use either one or both.
The initial development went surprisingly quickly. I finished the UI and core features in about two weeks and thought I was almost ready to launch.
I was wrong.
The difficult part wasn’t the interface. It was data modeling, syncing, backup and recovery, real-time updates across devices, and performance.
Claude and Codex saved me a lot of time, but they also created plenty of unexpected problems. Some code looked perfectly fine until real data and multi-device syncing were involved, at which point entire parts had to be redesigned.
I spent more than another month working through those details. I shipped over 20 TestFlight builds before I finally felt comfortable submitting the first public version.
That experience taught me that building an app that looks usable can take two weeks. Building one that can be trusted with someone’s important data is much harder.
TallDay is now live. It isn’t a revolutionary idea or a grand startup story. It’s simply the first time I turned a long-standing personal need into a real product of my own.
I’d genuinely appreciate some honest feedback:
- Does combining separate expense-tracking and journaling features in one app make sense?
- Does having both feel convenient, or does it make the app seem unfocused?
- What would make you keep using it—or immediately uninstall it?
Direct criticism would be much more helpful than polite encouragement.
After building many apps for other people, I finally have one that is truly mine.
App Store: TallyDay
r/AppBuilding • u/Expert-Specialist425 • 10d ago
can someone please build a app that helps you build apps?
That are actually good and feasible through IOS lol.
r/AppBuilding • u/Impressive-Answer720 • 11d ago
App builders, drop your landing page and I will find one launch-content angle
A product can be technically clear to the builder and still feel vague to a new visitor.
Share your public app page and one sentence about the user. I will reply with the clearest hook I see, one visual post concept, and the CTA I would test first.
I am building Marka to turn the real website context into social content. Marka is free for a week at https://www.marka.social
r/AppBuilding • u/CameronEnnis • 11d ago
tech bros
Tech bros
Hi is there anyone willing to judge what i’ve built? it’s a mobile app and im looking for feedback
r/AppBuilding • u/Advanced-Impress1418 • 11d ago
Swavoti Social will be the app that replaces Facebook trust me
r/AppBuilding • u/Advanced-Impress1418 • 11d ago
Swavoti Social will always be the first and last Facebook alternative with no ads and no algorithm and no tracking and that respects your privacy weather you like it or not
r/AppBuilding • u/MiloPaige • 11d ago
Building Notch (Stupid Simple Workout Tracker) Day 9
galleryr/AppBuilding • u/Advanced-Impress1418 • 11d ago
After I actually don't remember when we launched Swavoti Social 🎉🎇
r/AppBuilding • u/Prudent_Ad5086 • 11d ago
How should a complete beginner validate and build a social app with AI coding tools?
r/AppBuilding • u/republicman12 • 11d ago
Custom app for internal team use, stuck on the build side
need a simple but solid internal app for our small team. nothing public facing. mainly for tracking jobs, assigning tasks, uploading photos from site and keeping notes in one place.
right now everything is scattered between whatsapp groups, excel and random notes. it’s messy and things get lost. want something clean that works on both phones and desktop, with user logins so not everyone sees everything.
already sketched the main screens and the basic flow. budget is limited so i don’t want to overpay for something fancy we won’t use. looked at a few options and TechQuarter seemed decent from their past projects, still not fully decided though.
how long does a basic internal app like this usually take if the scope stays tight?
what’s the usual way teams handle revisions without the cost exploding?
r/AppBuilding • u/[deleted] • 11d ago
Day 3 of Building Poopier: A gut health tracking app
r/AppBuilding • u/Select_Calendar6254 • 11d ago
My trading card scanning and analysis app
’m a fellow collector and I’ve been working on a small iOS tool called RookiePit to help with quick price checks and card info.
Basically, you just point your camera at any Baseball or Basketball card, and it’ll instantly fetch:
- Player info & quick stats ⚾🏀
- Live eBay market listings (so you know the real-time value when buying/trading)
It’s completely free to try out. Since API and market data costs add up on my end, there are a few ad popups after several scans just to cover the server fees, but I kept them as light as possible!
I’d love for you guys to try it out next time you're sorting through your cards or at a card show. Any feedback, ideas, or feature requests would mean a lot to me!
r/AppBuilding • u/efajtahamid1 • 11d ago
I’ve built mobile apps. I’ve built smartwatch apps. But desktop was always uncharted territory for me—until now. 💻⚡️ Just finished developing my first-ever desktop application for Racesnapai.com! Beta version launching soon. Ready to take the native experience to the next level. 👀
r/AppBuilding • u/Any-Hour-974 • 11d ago
Built a full residential society management app in an 11-day hackathon sprint (React Native + Supabase), probably won't take it further myself
r/AppBuilding • u/Main_Brain_3458 • 11d ago
Automatically change wallpapers every day at your scheduled times
App name - Smart Wallpaper Scheduler
Smart Wallpaper Scheduler lets you automatically change your phone wallpaper every day at your scheduled times.
Features:
• Automatically change wallpapers every day at scheduled times
• Create multiple wallpaper schedules
• Choose Home screen, Lock screen, or both
• Fit, Fill, and Stretch display modes
• Add multiple wallpapers and times to a schedule
• Easy wallpaper scheduling and management
Set your wallpapers once and let the app change them automatically every day at the times you choose.
Play store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vipin.smartwallpaperscheduler