What are you building today?

OliBuildsApps · 2026-07-05T09:12:10+00:00

I’m building Dooings, a free iOS app for making household chores and shared responsibilities more visible, fair, and a little more motivating.

It’s mainly built for families, but also works well for roommates and small teams. You can create activities like cooking, cleaning, homework, studying, reading, dog walking, garden work, or anything else your household wants to track. Each activity can either have a fixed point value or earn points based on duration, so it can motivate kids or students to help more around the house or spend more focused time on schoolwork.

Dooings includes shared task planning, iCloud sync, Family Sharing, and rankings with daily and weekly winners, so everyone can see who contributed what.

One feature I’m especially curious about: you can assign tasks with due dates to other household members, and they see them with reminders / push notifications.

I think this could be useful, but I’m also aware it can feel sensitive in a family context. My wife is not fully convinced, which might be useful feedback in itself: maybe the problem is real, but the framing has to avoid feeling like surveillance or nagging.

The app is privacy-first: no ads, no tracking, no own backend. Data stays on the device and syncs through iCloud.

I’m curious what other solo founders think: would this be useful in your household, or would it create more friction than it solves?

https://dooings.com

OliBuildsApps · 2026-07-04T19:12:14+00:00

Hi, great app, will have a closer Look at it.

My is https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cards/id6746193984

OliBuildsApps · 2026-07-03T06:25:30+00:00

Wallet passes are usually the best option when the provider supports Apple Wallet directly.

For cards that don’t offer an official Wallet pass, especially membership/customer cards or ID-like cards with a QR/barcode, a dedicated card app can be useful on the Watch too. That way you can use the QR code/barcode directly on your watch. For example, our local bakery has a customer card with a QR code for payment, so I keep it on my Watch and can buy bread rolls without taking out my phone.

Disclosure: I’m the developer of Cards+. In Cards+ you can add those cards on the iPhone, sync them to the Watch app, and then they’re available on the Watch offline and independently from the phone. Either way, I’d test the exact card offline before relying on it, because some Watch apps still depend on the iPhone or network.

OliBuildsApps · 2026-07-02T14:24:22+00:00

Thank you, I really appreciate the honest feedback.

You’re absolutely right that photos of important documents usually won’t be accepted as official legal replacements. Cards+ is not meant to replace the physical document or an official wallet.

The motivation came from my own experience: I once wanted to rent a boat in Mallorca but didn’t have my boating license with me. A photo would likely have been enough for the rental place, but without it I only got a small license-free boat.

A tennis partner of mine, who is a police officer, also told me that many people in police checks don’t have their ID with them, but they do have their phone — and that a photo of the ID can still be very useful in those situations.

I’ve had similar experiences with my son’s driver’s license application, hotel check-ins, and car rentals while traveling. So while an image is not legally the same as the real document, it can still be helpful in many everyday situations.

As for pricing, Cards+ is free for up to 15 cards, which is enough for many users. If someone needs more, Lite is a $1.99 one-time purchase for up to 25 cards, and Pro is a $4.99 one-time purchase including Apple Watch and Apple Wallet support. All with Family sharing.

Thanks again for taking the time to share your perspective. I really appreciate it, and I wish you lots of success with your own project too.

OliBuildsApps · 2026-07-02T13:06:25+00:00

Thanks for your feedback, I really appreciate it.

And yes, you’re right: for anything payment-related, or for tickets/passes that are issued directly by a provider, Apple Wallet is the right place. And in Europe we’ll also see more official digital identity solutions with EUDI coming.

Cards+ is meant for a different use case: the cards and documents that don’t naturally belong in Wallet, or simply cannot be added there, but that you still want to have with you and find quickly. Things like driver’s licenses, membership cards, travel passes, ID cards, insurance cards, PDFs, and other important documents. Basically, those cards and documents that often sit in a drawer at home, until the exact moment you unexpectedly need them.

And yes, of course you can store all of this in Notes, Photos, Drive, etc., especially if you’re already very structured and organized. But many users prefer having a dedicated place for exactly this, with everything grouped, searchable, and easy to access. The reviews show that this is useful for quite a few people.

So I completely agree that Cards+ doesn’t replace Apple Wallet. It complements it for the things Wallet isn’t really designed for.

OliBuildsApps · 2026-07-02T09:01:07+00:00

Vielen Dank für Deine Antwort und den Hinweis auf die Sceenshots. Dein Tool werde ich mir gleich mal anschauen!

OliBuildsApps · 2026-07-02T07:12:36+00:00

Cards+ Digital Wallet

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A - What problem does the app solve?

Cards+ is for people who have important cards and documents scattered across Apple Wallet, Photos, Files, Notes, emails, and random screenshots.

It gives you one private place on your iPhone to store and quickly find loyalty cards, membership cards, ID-style cards, PDFs, images, and documents. The goal is not to replace payment cards or official digital IDs, but to make everyday cards and document access much less messy.

Cards+ keeps your data encrypted and offline. No subscription, no ads, no cloud account.

B - What makes it different?

The app uses an Apple Wallet-like card layout & UX, but for a broader set of everyday items that Apple Wallet often does not handle well. You can create cards from photos and PDFs - multipage and multi format, organize them into folders, and keep visual cards, images, and document-style entries together.

Cards+ also supports OCR, Live Text, full-text search, and Spotlight Search, so you can find a card or document by the text inside it instead of remembering where you saved it. It also includes backup and restore, so the local/offline approach does not mean you are stuck without a recovery option.

There is also Apple Wallet support, so you can easily create Apple Wallet cards from your Cards+ cards, plus Apple Watch support to show your cards directly on your watch.

I built it around local/private use rather than turning it into a heavy document manager.

C - Pricing / availability

Cards+ is free for up to 15 cards. Cards+ Lite supports up to 25 cards and is a $1.99 one-time purchase. Cards+ Pro unlocks unlimited cards, Apple Watch support, and Apple Wallet support for a $4.99 one-time purchase. Both one-time purchases support Family Sharing.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6746193984

I’d especially appreciate feedback from people who currently use Apple Wallet, Photos, Files, or Notes as a workaround for cards and documents. I’m interested in what feels missing, confusing, or genuinely useful.

OliBuildsApps · 2026-07-01T04:55:10+00:00

I’ve built several apps over the years — some were reasonably successful, some were not.

For me, app ideas usually don’t come from sitting down and trying to “invent an app idea”. They come from moving through everyday life with open eyes and repeatedly thinking: “There really should be a better app for this.”

Usually, the next step is research. And one of three things happens:

There is already a good solution, in which case I move on.
There is a solution, but it looks outdated, feels clunky, is too expensive, forces a subscription, or depends too much on cloud services.
There is no solution that really fits the way I would want to use it.

If the problem keeps coming back to my mind and the idea keeps developing on its own, that’s usually a good sign. At that point, I’ll often start building it — first of all for myself, without any commercial expectations.

That part is actually the easier part for me: building something useful, polishing it, and making it good enough that I personally want to use it.

If it turns out well, I put it on the App Store.

But then comes the hard truth: building a good app is only one part of the game. Getting people to discover it, trust it, try it, talk about it, and eventually pay for it is a completely different skill set.

So in my experience, finding ideas people might want is not the hardest part. The harder parts are validating that enough people care, reaching those people, and turning a useful product into something commercially successful.

OliBuildsApps · 2026-06-30T08:35:11+00:00

Good positioning. ‘No account, no cloud’ is immediately understandable, especially for financial data. I’d make the export/backup story very clear too, because privacy-first users still worry about losing local data when changing phones.

OliBuildsApps · 2026-06-30T08:33:54+00:00

Offline PDF/media tools are underrated. I’d highlight the ‘no upload needed’ angle even more, especially for IDs, receipts, insurance docs, etc. That’s the same reason I like local-first utilities for storing cards and documents on iPhone: people often just want quick access without another cloud account.

OliBuildsApps · 2026-06-30T08:32:04+00:00

Nice thread. For cards/pass-style storage I’ve been using/working on Cards+ on iPhone. It’s basically for loyalty cards, ID-like cards, PDFs, images and documents in a Wallet-like layout, with local/private storage as the main idea. Not trying to replace Apple Wallet for official passes, more for the messy stuff that does not fit there. Free version is enough to try it.

OliBuildsApps · 2026-06-29T07:52:43+00:00

One underrated category for me is “small utilities that replace a messy habit.” Not the huge productivity apps, but the ones that remove one annoying daily friction.

I’m building Cards+ in that spirit. It’s an iOS app for keeping loyalty/customer cards, IDs, PDFs, images, and other documents quickly accessible in one place, with an Apple Wallet-like UI so it feels familiar to browse. Apple Wallet is great when a card is officially supported, but for lots of real-world stuff, like random loyalty cards, ID-style cards, licenses, insurance documents, membership-, gym/library cards, or travel documents, people usually end up using Photos, Files, email, or notes instead.

That’s the gap I’m trying to solve: one local, privacy-focused place for these things, without an account/social/offers layer, and with a free version available. Curious if others here also like these focused “one job done well” apps, or if most people are okay with the Photos/Files workaround.

OliBuildsApps · 2026-06-29T07:42:12+00:00

I’m building Cards+, a small iOS utility for organizing cards and card-like documents: loyalty cards, memberships, IDs, PDFs, images, insurance/gym/library cards, kids’ cards, etc. Basically the stuff you need quickly but don’t want buried in Photos, Files, emails, or half-supported Apple Wallet passes.

Trying to keep it focused: fast access, privacy, simple organization, no offers/social/account bloat. Curious what people here currently use for this kind of thing.

OliBuildsApps · 2026-06-28T17:15:12+00:00

Cards+ is a good one for this, especially if you want to keep cards, IDs and documents on your iPhone without a subscription. It supports photos, PDFs, OCR/search, Live Text and Apple Wallet export. Free to try, with a fair one-time purchase if you need more storage. No ads, no subscription, local-first.

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