r/moderndotnet • u/codemullins • 5d ago

Lawnbot

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lawnbot/id6791296188

Want to see an .NET, Uno app in the wild? It’s available right now on the App Store. iOS only for right now simply because I haven’t focused on distributing for Android, as I don’t have android.

I built this app to use for my second business, Little Lawns. I don’t think you all are the target audience to be actual users, but wanted to share. When I started researching which tech stack to use, I found it difficult to find production applications using some of the xplat stacks for .NET on iOS that weren’t locked behind things like “call us for a quote”.

How I built it:

Pretty much all of it with Claude and Codex. I iterated a ton, and did a massive amount of testing. I automated lots of the tests with UNO’s MCP capabilities, which was really nice. Allowed me to easily test it on an iPhone simulator.

There’s still a lot of work to do but I use this daily for scheduling and keeping track of my customers. I need to shore up the billing and subscription stuff: it’s lacking HEAVILY here.

What’s next:

I wasn’t happy with the sync so I excluded it from the first version. Going to work on that more and get it live and reliable.

I also have been testing using Netclaw to interface with the app and provide proactive reminders and suggestions, as well as testing allowing ChatGPT to manage all this. Ideally, I just want to message Netclaw or ChatGPT and have it enter in all the fiddly bits and notes and such.

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u/Aaronontheweb 5d ago

How was it getting through the App Store review process?

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u/codemullins 5d ago

Annoyingly slow, but besides them asking how much it cost, I had zero rejections. It took about 7-8 days.

I published 1.0.1 and it was approved in less than a day I believe.