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Being bed/couch ridden all week, I decided to put some more work in this app idea I had during Config. It’s basically a private and automated version of Gowalla, inspired by the Moves app (for those who remember).

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maxvoltar

@maxvoltar.be

4 July

Some details: using GPS data your phone already records, pulling locations from Apple Maps, tagging people from your address book, adding photos from your camera roll. All on-device.

Stuart Frisby

@mrfrisby.com

4 July

This is neat! Love the idea of this kind of ambient data being surfaced and used for fun stuff.

Henry Wilkinson

@wilkinson.graphics

4 July

I hope this isn’t a huge faux-pas, because this looks like a very cool project, but you should check out Arc Timeline as prior art! Matt has spent a long time thinking about the problems you’ll run into with always on location tracking in iOS.

apps.apple.comArc Timeline 4 App - App StoreDownload Arc Timeline 4 by Matthew Bruce Greenfield on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more apps like Arc Timeline 4.

Henry Wilkinson

@wilkinson.graphics

4 July

The core location tracking code is ALSO open source! github.com/sobri909/Loc...

maxvoltar

@maxvoltar.be

4 July

Oooooh will check it out! What’s their handle here?

Henry Wilkinson

@wilkinson.graphics

4 July

Unsure, but he’s very active on the App’s support forums: support.bigpaua.com

Mike Davidson

@mikeindustries.com

4 July

Building apps for yourself and friends is the best.

maxvoltar

@maxvoltar.be

4 July

Ngl, I think agentic coding might be indie software’s savior.

Justin Maxwell

@303.bsky.social

4 July

Mike Buzzard’s essay on this is what I give to every aspiring pm and designer You can’t build things for other people until you’ve tried to build them for yourself first Imo this is the generational divide between those of us who grew up thinking it was interesting & those who wanted to get a job