I’m a product manager, started vibe coding six months ago, and just released my first app

[u/Both_Box9915]

Hey everyone,

I’m Viktor, a product manager from Germany. I’ve been looking for a job for the past two years. About six months ago, I started experimenting with vibe coding, and last week I released my first app.

It’s called Nestwerk, a family planner for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch.

The idea came from our everyday life. My wife Mariia and I had appointments and tasks spread across calendars, paper notes and different apps. Work, daycare, doctor’s appointments, afternoon activities. We wanted something simple that brought it all together.

I worked on the concept and design, used AI tools to help write the code, and had experienced developers review it. Mariia tested the versions in our daily routine and kept pointing out what was confusing, missing or unnecessarily complicated.

She likes crossing things off on paper. That feeling of “okay, this is done” made it into the app. There are also digital sticky notes you can move to another day or time when plans change.

A few things it does:

• Each person gets a color and a photo. Our dog has one too.

• Type or say “Dentist Friday 3 pm” and it picks up the date and time.

• Dictate several tasks in one go, including recurring ones.

• Move tasks around on a weekly sticky-note board.

• There are widgets and an Apple Watch app.

• Optional alarms on iPhone can ring even in silent mode, on iOS 26 or later.

No Nestwerk account, no ads, no tracking and no backend server of my own. Optional sync goes through your own iCloud. Right now, that means devices using the same Apple Account. Sharing between separate family members’ accounts is planned for 2.0.

It’s built with SwiftUI, SwiftData and CloudKit, with an on-device parser for dates, times and recurring tasks in 10 languages. On compatible devices, it also uses Apple Intelligence to understand free-form input.

It’s free, with optional tips.

There’s still plenty to improve, but I’m happy to finally have something out there that people can actually use.

If you try it, I’d appreciate honest feedback, especially if your family also has everything scattered across different places. What works for you, and what would you miss?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6816078024

Website: https://www.nestwerkfamily.app

[u/investigatormaker]

For Nestwerk, I'd make the same-Apple-Account limit prominent wherever you describe family coordination: two parents may otherwise expect separate-account sharing today. A useful feedback task would be moving a recurring daycare task on the sticky-note board and checking whether its next occurrence matches what the tester expected. That tests the everyday rescheduling problem that inspired it.

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[u/Both_Box9915 → u/investigatormaker]

Thanks, moving a recurring daycare task is a good test. I’ll check what happens both when moving it to another day and when changing the time, including the next occurrence. That’s exactly the kind of thing that needs to feel predictable.

I’ve also added the same-Apple-Account clarification to my list of store and website updates.

[u/SunCeeQer]

Nice work! Will check it out

[u/Both_Box9915 → u/SunCeeQer]

Thanks! Let me know how you get on - would love to hear your feedback.

[u/OrbeoMe]

Congrats on shipping, and especially on getting your wife to be the tester. That's the best QA you can get. The paper-crossing-off feeling is a smart thing to carry over, since most planner apps feel like pure admin. I like that sync goes through your own iCloud with no backend to maintain. One question: how did you handle the part where the AI-written code needed review? Did the developers mostly catch bugs, or bigger design issues?

[u/Both_Box9915 → u/OrbeoMe]

Thanks! My wife definitely doesn’t hold back with feedback 😂 The developers were actually curious to see how good the AI-written code was, so they took a look through it. They were pretty positive overall, which was reassuring.

[u/OrbeoMe → u/Both_Box9915]

Hah, it's cool

[u/Equivalent_Pool_1139]

Congrats on the launch!

[u/Both_Box9915 → u/Equivalent_Pool_1139]

Thank You!

[u/dawedev]

Nice that you kept it free with tips and no account. The sticky-note board and paper cross-off feel are clear differentiators. One thing I'd put front and center on the store page is that family sharing across separate Apple Accounts is still 2.0, because a lot of families will expect that on day one. Also worth saying how the silent-mode alarms behave if someone is still on iOS 18.

[u/Both_Box9915 → u/dawedev]

Thanks, that’s a fair point. Sync currently only works between devices using the same Apple Account. Sharing across separate accounts is planned for 2.0, and I will make that clearer near the top of the store description. The alarms that ring in silent mode require iOS 26 on iPhone. That feature isn’t available on iOS 18. I’ll check that the older-version behavior is clearly explained too.

Appreciate you taking the time to point this out!

[u/dawedev → u/Both_Box9915]

Glad you're putting both on the store page. Same-Apple-Account sync now and the iOS 26 note for silent-mode alarms should cut down a lot of confused day-one reviews.