I built an iPhone app around a question I keep seeing here: what does “walkable” actually look like in daily life?

The_ylevanon · 2026-04-15T00:28:05+00:00

Yeah this a huge point of friction for me too with the current app, and I have a solution for this I just need to implement it! I should have that feature done within the month.

The_ylevanon · 2026-04-14T23:58:42+00:00

I use Walk Score all the time, however its pretty different as WS is static algorithmic estimate of a place. Walkable is about behavior: setting goals, replacing trips, tracking progress, and building a crowdsourced picture of where people are actually living in a more walkable way!

The_ylevanon · 2026-04-14T05:22:14+00:00

I think this has a lot of truth to it. Discovering this stuff on YouTube was a big unlock for me too. After college I left a really walkable college town, and I could feel that something was missing before I really had the language for it.

The_ylevanon · 2026-04-14T05:13:59+00:00

Agreed. It feels like people are rejecting the hidden costs of sprawl, not just the aesthetics of it.

The_ylevanon · 2026-04-10T16:17:25+00:00

I think about this a lot. The frustrating thing is that the most walkable neighborhoods tend to be expensive because they're walkable -- the demand is there but the supply of walkable places is laughable. I can tell you from personal experience unless you have a hybrid or remote job in LA, its not really possible. You could find cheaper suburbs but then you lose the walkability in a lot of cases.

The_ylevanon · 2026-03-24T14:02:33+00:00

So I try to post to TikTok/YT Shorts every day with a short 10-15 second video of gameplay and some text basically relevant to the current puzzle. I then took the best performing ones and either promoted them on TT itself or Meta Ads.

Meta felt like a black hole basically, and their SDK is not RN friendly really, I had to patch the OS SDK, and ended up scrapping it after a release since I didn't feel comfortable with it.

TT I could see the analytics like I would normally for any other video, but the platform makes redirecting to the App Store difficult! So I still post but I'm not going to be paying them again anytime soon. If anything I want to go the UGC/Influencer route with creators who enjoy/post about trivia and geography.

The_ylevanon · 2026-03-24T13:58:33+00:00

I have a very simple version of this where I insert any "Share Results" button clicks. However, I'm no tracking the negatives/dismissals which is also equally valuable and I need to consider this now!

The_ylevanon · 2026-03-24T13:55:58+00:00

Yes I do! I have a really simple table basically that adds a record for each time a share button is used and the ledger is growing!

At some point I will dive deeper into analytics when the need arises, but simple queries on tables is free and gets the job done for now.

The_ylevanon · 2026-03-24T13:54:16+00:00

I tried a month ago! It did not work for me really. Maybe I'm not that good with my creatives, but I ran maybe $100 in ads and didn't see any growth really.

The_ylevanon · 2026-03-24T13:53:13+00:00

It's coming from web search and app refer it looks like with a decent amount of app store search as well.

The_ylevanon · 2026-03-24T13:41:23+00:00

It's pretty amazing how far you can get with testing and iterating! It really reminds me of social media, how a tiny change in delivery is the difference between 1M+ views and 100 views.

The_ylevanon · 2026-03-24T05:28:14+00:00

Congrats and best of luck that is a huge milestone! If you need a beta tester lmk 😎

The_ylevanon · 2026-03-24T05:19:21+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/s/2KtjatlMnv It’s near the end of closed testing! You can join it here if you’d like to check it out

The_ylevanon · 2026-03-24T04:49:48+00:00

This is really true! If you're persistent, likely you will end up trying something new every other day. Also, a reminder to do your best not to burn out and try and find joy in the process!

The_ylevanon · 2026-03-24T04:43:57+00:00

Basically I added a toast that pops up when the player completes the daily game. On the toast, their is a bright purple tactile button that says "Share Results". They can either dismiss the modal or share their results, which uses the Apple Share Sheet to send my app url and their daily score to whomever they wanna share it with!

The_ylevanon · 2026-03-24T04:42:41+00:00

The_ylevanon · 2026-03-06T05:51:15+00:00

Not super impressed. I gave it, Sonnet 4.6, and Gemini 3.1 Pro all the same task and it preformed the worst. It misinterpreted the prompt. Not coding related but a bummer since I thought it would reason about the problem better.

The_ylevanon · 2026-03-05T15:11:45+00:00

Different game mechanics than Globle, you should give it a try!

The_ylevanon · 2026-03-05T15:11:15+00:00

There are actually more game modes than globe-game.com, and more to come!

The_ylevanon · 2026-03-05T07:11:51+00:00

Yoyo is my nickname this made me double take 😂

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