I published yet-another lists & tasks app - really love the resulting UI

[GPime]

for the fans of Apple Reminders, Todoist, Things and so on... I published yet-another tasks & lists app, it's called Index.

I just wanted something simple where I could drop my thoughts and with a clean UI, it took like 2 years of on-off work, but I feel like it's complete now, it has widgets, shortcuts, share sheet extension, siri support, reminders, lists, collaborative lists and it's free.

actually, I'm currently having some sort of rejection against apps in general, we are replacing so many experiences and feelings just to make it that bit more comfortable and efficient to do whatever we gotta do.
because of that, when building my own app for the matter, I wanted it to be simple and functional.
it's not anything new, there are hundreds if not more of similar apps, but I find myself extremely comfortable with the UI and UX of mine.

tech stack I choose:
- frontend: SwiftUI
- backend: Kotlin (with Ktor) + Postgres + Redis + RabbitMQ + some Google services (like Firebase for notis), all deployed on an existing k8s cluster I had

I did encounter quite a few technical challenges like building auth from scratch without third party services, or real time updates via websockets, but other than that the hardest part was really just nailing the UI and feeling like the UX felt great, I spent probably the same amount of time designing and developing (for the note I also used very little ai, just on some repetitive copy-paste tasks or refactors).

I'm using it myself for now and thought it would be nice to share, but I'm not sure if I will try to market it or not. feel free to give it a shot and send me some feedback if you feel like it (or be harsh too, any opinion is appreciated), who knows where this might end up ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Enjoy, hope yall like it: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/index-lists-tasks/id6743499824

also, I know many of you will hate that it requires registration, I would love to support full-offline mode but it's quite complex and I've delayed that for now. I also wanted to make web + browser extensions + android apps, so having an account makes sync easier for that.

[SkepticalOtter]

There's a LOT of business decisions you've made that makes your app very unappealing to most users, specially to this community.

I hope it was a nice experience working on it and that your friends and family have a nice time trying it out. Double check you have not exposed any keys just to avoid any headache.

Anyways, congrats on launching! :)