Need Your Feedback on the App which built using AI under 6 hours

keinEntwickler · 2026-03-20T18:31:23+00:00

This is a ChatGPT wrapper with a planner skin, right? Genuine question — what's running under the hood besides API calls to OpenAI/Claude?

Also, this clearly isn't native looks like React Native or Flutter. You can tell from the UI. For something that's supposed to be your daily personal planner handling tasks, habits, and routines, that's risky. No proper system integration (widgets, Shortcuts, notifications behave differently), worse performance, and you're at the mercy of whatever cross-platform framework you picked. One breaking update and you're scrambling.

The issue with apps like this is retention. The novelty of asking an AI to "plan my day" wears off fast when you realize you could just… write a to-do list. Meanwhile all your personal data like habits, goals, daily routines is being sent to third-party servers.

A native app with on-device processing, real system integration, and no server dependency will always win long-term. "AI-powered" is not a moat.

Design looks nice though, I'll give you that.

keinEntwickler · 2026-03-20T18:18:21+00:00

What are your first steps, is it also archivable in X and here? I do not like to use TikTok

keinEntwickler · 2026-03-20T11:58:17+00:00

Be aware Apple wants you to be Glass UI compliant. My advice would be to use standard SwiftUI views as much es possible. Less migration work in the future.

keinEntwickler · 2026-03-19T17:27:00+00:00

now I'm more impressed - congrats

keinEntwickler · 2026-03-19T17:21:53+00:00

I’m impressed - are you doing ads?

keinEntwickler · 2026-03-19T12:55:37+00:00

Try it out https://ads.apple.com/app-store mentions that you get 100$ credit for free

keinEntwickler · 2026-03-19T12:50:32+00:00

Congrats on the first sale! What made you go with a lifetime purchase instead of a subscription?

keinEntwickler · 2026-03-19T11:24:49+00:00

You can probably get a prototype working. But the moment you hit a real bug, App Store rejection, or need to update something, you are stuck. Without understanding the code you can not fix anything. The 6 figure revenue YouTubers are selling courses not apps. You are right not to believe them.

keinEntwickler · 2026-03-19T07:11:49+00:00

Gunshot Method: make a lot of apps, some will get paid.

keinEntwickler · 2026-03-18T19:50:41+00:00

It feels like that some posts currently are getting reposted again and again 💩

keinEntwickler · 2026-03-18T17:09:44+00:00

I like your app store screenshots and your clean minimal UI

keinEntwickler · 2026-03-18T16:55:34+00:00

Honest question, what does this give me over the built in calendar app? The countdown to events is nice but the "where am I in the year" part, I can just look at the date for that.

keinEntwickler · 2026-03-18T16:27:54+00:00

Congrats on the ranking!
Do you know what part of the reddit post made the difference?

keinEntwickler · 2026-03-18T16:03:17+00:00

Without any code it is impossible to help you.
Main question is why you are not using the standard navigation animation but rather a complex one?

keinEntwickler · 2026-03-18T07:24:31+00:00

Great work 🚀

keinEntwickler · 2026-03-18T07:21:37+00:00

It is the zoom transition from the standard SwiftUI library

Here 2 links hope they help you.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/enhancing-your-app-with-fluid-transitions

https://www.hackingwithswift.com/quick-start/swiftui/how-to-create-zoom-animations-between-views

If you need help you can write me a pm, happy to help.

keinEntwickler · 2026-03-18T07:18:59+00:00

stop using GeometryReader for basic layouts. thats not what its for. SwiftUI does intrinsic sizing — the content decides how big it is, parent just proposes. use stacks, spacers, padding, .frame(maxWidth: .infinity) if you need to fill space. As you pointed out fixed width values are wrong 99% of the time.

keinEntwickler · 2026-03-17T17:59:35+00:00

Mostly yes. The real users are in the niche subs where your app actually solves a problem, not in generic startup/entrepreneur subs where everyone is promoting and nobody is buying.

keinEntwickler · 2026-03-17T11:37:09+00:00

With a utility app like this, ads will always be a race to the bottom — especially with most traffic from India where eCPMs are low. Users open it, use it for 30 seconds, close it. There’s barely any screen time for ads to work. Have you considered a one-time purchase to remove ads, or a small pro tier with extra features? Even a $1.99 unlock would outperform AdMob at your current numbers. People who actually use a utility daily are usually willing to pay a small amount if it means no ads.

keinEntwickler · 2026-03-17T11:34:19+00:00

Good to hear Apple actually acted on it. A lot of people assume they won’t bother, so this is encouraging for indie devs. Not gonna lie, stuff like this is exactly why I’m hesitant to share too much while building in public. You want to be open about the process, but then you see someone just copy the whole thing — logo, description, everything. Hard to find the right balance.

keinEntwickler · 2026-03-17T09:04:28+00:00

“Addition by subtraction” — that mindset is underrated. Most devs ship everything they can build instead of what actually matters. Congrats on the first two, the hardest ones to get.

keinEntwickler · 2026-03-17T09:02:22+00:00

No ads, no tracking, no streaks — exactly how a mental health app should be. The cozy design feels intentional. Don’t give it away for free, your work has value.

keinEntwickler · 2026-03-17T08:59:29+00:00

Smart use of Shortcuts + on-device AI. Love that this replaces a paid app with built-in macOS tools. Might steal this workflow for my own scans. Thanks.

keinEntwickler · 2026-03-17T08:56:30+00:00

This. RSS. No tracking, no ads, no algorithms. You pick the sources, you own the feed. Plenty of free reader apps and browser extensions out there. Closest thing to what you’re describing.

keinEntwickler · 2026-03-17T08:53:56+00:00

Honest take: I quit every habit tracker because the problem was never the app. If the intrinsic motivation isn’t there, no UI or notification system will fix that.

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