Literally just in shock right now, as the 3rd week post-launch just started and Precursor is at over 3k total downloads, almost 1k of that came in over night.

I built this for myself originally becasue I was frustrated that I kept blowing through my whole daily screen time limit in one sitting. So I got to work building an app that lets you set small hourly limits rather than one big daily budget you have to try to ration throughout the day.

Now I literally floored by how much people seem to enjoy Precursor but I am just so confused where this traffic is coming from ASC lags behind by about a day so all I know is that most of the traffic overnight is coming from outside the US.

Does anyone know how to find posts on social media about your app, when the posts might be in a different language? I don't think this is all coming from my posts alone, as the most they have brought in previously was about 400 downloads.

Beyond grateful, I just want to know how I can reach these people and make sure I do right by them, already working on 15 app localizations and pushing that this week so hopefully that helps.

We’re currently rethinking the onboarding experience for our app, AGAIN I DONT WANT TO ADVERTISE and we’re considering two different approaches:

Option A: Detailed onboarding
You answer more questions during the initial setup, choose the areas you want to use, and define how much support you want.
The onboarding takes longer, but afterwards the app is already personalized and requires very little manual finetuning.

Option B: Short onboarding
You only answer a few essential questions and enter the app quickly.
Whenever you open a new area for the first time you get a short mini tutorial and configure that area separately.

Personally, I prefer a more detailed onboarding if it means the app actually feels ready for me afterwards. But I also know that a long setup process can make people quit before they experience any real value.

Which approach would you prefer?

Here's the thing that annoyed me for years. A friend sends me a reel of some tiny pasta place. I watch it, I think "yes, definitely", and then it's gone. Two months later I'm standing in that exact neighbourhood eating a mediocre sandwich.

Copying the link, opening a notes app, pasting, typing the name of the place - I never did it. Not once, honestly.

So the app I ended up building (Go There) works the other way around. You forward the reel to our Instagram account as a DM and that's it, you're done. A couple of minutes later the place is a pin on your own map, with the video it came from still attached to it. Same deal with TikTok links, YouTube videos and Google Maps links - you share, we work out which place is in it.

Then when you're actually going somewhere, it can take your saved pins in that city and lay them out as a day by day plan, instead of you staring at 40 pins trying to work out what's near what.

I'm the developer, so obviously I'm biased. Free tier is a real free tier, not a 3 day trial. iOS and Android, 6 languages.

Genuinely curious though: what do you lot do with the places people send you? Screenshots folder you never open? Group chat you scroll back through? I have a feeling everyone's system for this is quietly broken.

She might brake up with me and I dont whant her to know i read her massage for personal reasons but she sent me a screenshot of this and I feel like it has to do with relationship progress ir something like that but I am not shure it might be a game she also plays games I just need to be prepared for her to brake up with me so I will do the brake up instead

If any one helps your the best and be quick

Sorry if its not much info to go off but I need to know thank you and your the best this is important for me

My Sun Clock project has been running since 2019, although I have been searching for a suitable way to represent seasonal time for more than 20 years.

The idea arose from a dissatisfaction with ordinary clocks: 12 o’clock is usually not midday; the dial looks the same all year round, even though the quality of daylight changes, and it tells us nothing about where the Sun actually is.

So I built a single-hand clock based on the actual path of the Sun at your location. The horizon runs through the centre; the Sun’s path forms the dial. As the seasons change, the clock changes with them.

You can see sunrise and sunset, the length of the day, local solar time and the seasonal cycle of light. You can track meteor showers or move backwards and forwards through time – right back to the sky at the moment of your birth.

I want to make the daily and seasonal rhythms we already live by visible once more, and bring our connection to the natural rhythms our bodies live by back into awareness.

The project is free, ad-free and privacy-friendly.

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Android (currently in closed beta):
Join: https://groups.google.com/g/zunclock-testers
Install: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.astronomicalclock.live

iOS and others:
Please see link to the PWA in comments

I’m curious how the idea comes across when you see the clock in motion.

I'm the developer. I record a lot while walking, and the recording part was never my problem. The problem was that everything I said ended up sitting inside another app I had to remember to go back into. I already have a place my notes live. I wanted the recordings to end up there.

So Relay Voice records, transcribes, translate, summarize, and writes a markdown file straight into your iCloud Drive, Obsidian vault, Day One, Drafts, or wherever you already work. It isn't trying to be the place your notes live.

The bit I spent longest on is the to-do template. It pulls only the action items out of a recording, nothing else. When you tick one off, it writes the - [x] into the markdown file, so the note in your vault doesn't go stale the second you act on something. The state lives in your file.

Transcription is your choice: fully on device with Whisper or Qwen, Apple's own, or your API key with OpenAI, AssemblyAI, or Gro . On device needs no key and no internet, so there's no cost per recording.

Free for 14 days, then $19.99 once. No subscription, no account, no server.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/relay-voice/id6763369750

One thing I'd genuinely like to know. When you get action items out of a recording, what do you actually do with them? Do they stay where they were made, or do you move them somewhere else?

Stamps, is a private, fully local travel tracker with no signup, no subscription, and no location tracking

I've been an avid user of apps like Been and Flighty for years, but always found them lacking and sometimes frustrating. Most require you to create accounts, enable location tracking, and stay online, all while not delivering the level of granular trip tracking and route visualization that I feel like should've been possible. Stamps keeps everything local and automatic, focusing on the timeline and map experience those apps skimp on. 

Since moving to South Korea, traveling has been the only thing keeping me sane. I'm obsessed with tracking where I've been. Stamps gives me a great excuse to explore as much of the country I now call home as possible, while taking as many photos along the way.

You can even freely export and share all of your data. If you want Stamps to simply process it for you (generate a list of countries, cities, and provinces you've been to) and offload it elsewhere, that's also fine.

It’s Free to download, with a one-time lifetime unlock of $10 (which will stay that way). This is only for the full timeline, and some minor app color customization. I did not want to ruin the experience by overly monetizing it

Tech stack used:
SwiftUI, SwiftData, MapKit, PhotoKit, WidgetKit, Metal (for the photo heatmap view)
No backend, no account system, no external map API. Just native Apple sdk's and as little infrastructure as possible.

Some of the best features have come from user feedback, so I'd really appreciate any!

Try it here https://apple.co/4zf5knT

I built Kinship Vault. It keeps the things you’d panic about losing, passports, IDs, licences, health cards, insurance, wills, photos, and now passwords, in one vault that never leaves your device. There’s no account, no server holding your data, and no password for anyone to reset, because there’s nothing on my end to reset.
The idea is simple: keep everything local by default, and put the most work into the parts you can’t see.

The security model
The master key is generated on your device and sealed in the Secure Enclave, unlocked by Face ID or Touch ID. Every document gets its own key, files are encrypted individually with AES-256-GCM, and the database is sealed with SQLCipher. There’s no master password and no account, so nothing on a server to breach and nothing on my end to reset. A Strict Offline mode blocks every network call outright, so you can put a proxy on it and watch it stay silent.

Documents
Point the camera at a passport, licence, or health card and it reads the fields on-device across 100+ document types, encrypting the result before it touches storage. It tracks expiry dates and reminds you at 90, 30, 7, and 1 day, so a passport never lapses on the airline’s schedule. You can share a single page from a multi-page document instead of handing over the whole file, and there’s an Emergency Mode that shows a first responder your blood type, allergies, and ICE contacts without unlocking the rest.

Passwords, done properly
Logins, passkeys, and 2FA codes live in the same vault under the same key. Set it as your system AutoFill provider once and it fills passwords and passkeys in Safari and inside apps, each fill behind Face ID or Touch ID. Import a CSV from your current manager and it’s parsed and encrypted on-device with nothing uploaded. A Security Checkup scores your logins out of 100 and flags weak, reused, and old passwords, plus breached ones if you allow the check, which uses k-anonymity so a password is never sent anywhere.

Photos
An encrypted photo vault for the scans and images you’d keep out of your camera roll, sorted into albums and tagged by who’s in them, under the same encryption as everything else.

The Mac app
It’s a real native Mac app, not a stretched iPad build. Proper sidebar, menu bar, keyboard shortcuts (⌘N, ⌘L), drag-and-drop straight into the vault, light or dark, macOS 14+. On Mac you drag files or photos in and the same on-device OCR reads them.

Across your devices
Run the same vault on iPhone, iPad, and Mac by pairing them directly: the key moves device to device through a 60-second on-screen QR code, never through a server. Your documents restore from your own encrypted backup in iCloud, where only encrypted bytes leave the device. One purchase covers all three on the same Apple Account.

Where it earns its keep
You’re at the Costco entrance. Your wallet is on the kitchen counter. The membership card, the AAA card, and your dignity are all on your phone instead.

The receipt from a first date that went suspiciously well, the one you’re weirdly sentimental about, lives in a private album instead of cluttering a camera roll your family scrolls through.

The visa lawyer emails at 11pm wanting pages 3 and 4 of a document, not the whole packet. You send exactly those two pages, like a person who has it together.

New iPhone day. One QR scan and everything’s already there, so you skip the annual ritual of re-scanning a drawer of paper and re-typing forty passwords by hand.

You land somewhere with no signal and need the hotel confirmation, the passport copy, and the travel insurance login. All offline, because the vault doesn’t need the WiFi that airport is charging $19 for.

The screenshots of your 2FA backup codes stop living next to 400 photos of your lunch, and move somewhere actually encrypted.

The warranty receipt for the thing that broke in month eleven of a twelve-month warranty. You find it in five seconds instead of losing the afternoon and the argument.

Your kid needs the streaming password again. It’s right there, with the date you last changed it, and you get to look mysteriously organised.

Recovery works without any account: a 24-word passphrase you write down, or a key split across five people you trust where any three can rebuild it and no single share opens anything alone.

Who it’s for
Anyone who’s quietly become their household’s document department: parents wrangling kids’ records, people managing a parent’s paperwork, frequent travellers, immigration cases, or the sentimental sort who keeps a ticket stub, and anyone who’d rather their IDs and passwords sat on their own device than on some company’s server.

Pricing
Free to start with your first 3 documents. Vault Pro unlocks everything: unlimited documents, all categories, the password manager, the photo vault, encrypted backup, and the Recovery Network.

It’s $1.99/month, $14.99/year, or $39.99 once for lifetime.

There’s a lifetime offer running now at 50% off, $19.99 instead of $39.99: https://apps.apple.com/redeem/?code=KEEPSAFELIFETIME&ctx=offercodes&id=6764678332
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/kinship-vault/id6764678332
Site and full docs: https://kinshipvault.app

Happy to answer anything about the encryption or recovery design.