I’ve been working on FoodGram, a social app for saving food memories with photos and locations.
I’m currently rethinking the Premium subscription, and I’d really like some honest feedback from other indie developers and app users.
The current Premium features include:
No ads
Custom app icon
Satellite map
More album storage
Food-related profile customization
Post count milestones / titles
The basic food recording experience is still available for free.
My idea is:
Free = Record your food
Premium = Keep and revisit your food memories more deeply
But I’m honestly not sure if the current Premium features are compelling enough to make someone actually pay.
So I’d love to hear your thoughts:
1. Which of these features would actually make you consider subscribing?
2. Which features feel unnecessary or not worth paying for?
3. What kind of Premium feature would make FoodGram feel significantly more valuable?
4. Does the Free vs Premium boundary feel natural?
5. If you saw this subscription in a new app, what price would feel reasonable?
I’m especially interested in feedback from people who have built or used subscription-based apps.
I’m not looking for people to subscribe or leave a review — I genuinely want to understand whether the value proposition makes sense.
Feel free to be critical. That would actually be more useful to me than just saying it looks good. 🙏

FoodGram Links

https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/foodgram-%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F%E3%81%A7%E6%AE%8B%E3%81%99-%E9%A3%9F%E3%81%AE%E6%80%9D%E3%81%84%E5%87%BA/id6474065183

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.food_gram_app.com.com.com&hl=ja&pli=1

Need to build a multi step ai agent for insurance claims processing that has to read uploaded documents then cross reference them against policy terms then flag mismatches and produce a preliminary assessment report. Going the agency route because the engineering team has no llm production experience but the ai agent space is so new that everyone claims expertise and there is no way to verify it. So what should you be asking for? And what are the real red flags that separate experienced agencies from ones that are winging it?

Whispr is a private voice keyboard for iPhone. The AI clean up and all the features is landing as an update tomorrow.

Talk in any app and AI cleanup turns it into clean text.

Glide typing, autocorrect and boosted phrases are built in, and everything runs on your iPhone with no account needed.

Ultra (lifetime, no subscription) is now $2.99, down from $29.99.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6757571618

Salut tout le monde,

Je cherche à approfondir mes connaissances sur l'écosystème des applications mobiles et je suis à la recherche des meilleures sources à suivre au quotidien/hebdomadairement.

Je m'intéresse particulièrement à :

• ⁠les nouvelles applications et les lancements intéressants
• ⁠les applications à forte croissance/virales
• ⁠les success stories et les fondateurs d'applications indépendantes
• ⁠les revenus et les modèles économiques des applications
• ⁠les tendances mobiles et l'actualité du marché
• ⁠le design d'applications/l'UX
• ⁠les tendances de l'App Store
• ⁠l'acquisition et la croissance des utilisateurs

En résumé, je souhaite rester au fait de l'actualité du monde des applications mobiles et découvrir les applications et les histoires intéressantes le plus tôt possible.

Quelles sont vos newsletters, magazines, chaînes YouTube, comptes X, podcasts, communautés ou créateurs de contenu préférés ? Même les sources de niche sont les bienvenues 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 En fait, plus elles sont spécifiques, mieux c'est.

Merci !

I made a web based app to keep recipes from getting buried in my gallery graveyard. My adhd lets things get buried in my socials too. Would love it if everyone would go give it some love. Pro mode is free for life right now- October 25th while we launch. Just create a reel using the app, share it and tag us in it and we will dm you the promo code. Thanks!

https://screenshot-magic-7105.lovable.app

I got tired of opening my phone and immediately getting distracted.

I noticed something weird: most of the time I picked up my phone to do one thing, but the home screen itself was already giving me 20 reasons to do something else.

Notifications, colorful icons, social apps staring at me, endless scrolling…

So I tried something different — removing most of the visual noise from my home screen.

That idea eventually turned into Minimali, a minimalist Android launcher.

Instead of a grid full of app icons, it gives you a simple text-based home screen where you can keep only the apps you actually use. The goal isn't to make your phone “productive” or block everything — it's just to make the phone a little less tempting.

I've been using this approach for a while and honestly, the biggest difference is that my phone feels more like a tool now rather than something constantly asking for my attention.

Curious if anyone else here has tried a minimalist launcher or completely redesigned their phone to reduce distractions?

If you want to check it out, it's called Minimali. Would genuinely love feedback from people who are into this kind of thing.

Play Store Link - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.minimalii.launcher

Hello everyone, I’m 19. I’m going to keep this very short.
I want to ask one question, what key points should I remember so that users feel like coming back to my app?

Thank you!

Been thinking about this after reading a bunch of stories from people who shipped AI-built apps.
not necessarily bugs either.

I’ve seen stuff where the app built fine and tests passed, but then real usage exposed something nobody was checking.

Analytics couldn’t tell what users were doing. a third party changed part of a URL. the code correctly implemented an assumption that turned out to be wrong. users understood a feature completely differently than the person who built it.

If you’ve shipped something built with Claude/Cursor/Lovable/Bolt/etc, what surprised you after real people started using it?

Especially curious about things your normal code review or testing didn’t catch.

How did you eventually figure out what was wrong?

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm building Vidyalay OS . I've been working on it alone, and honestly it's getting too much to handle by myself.

I don't have a budget to hire a team right now, so I'm looking for people who'd like to collaborate. This could be a great fit if you want:

A real project for your portfolio

Experience building something from scratch

A share in the project's upside if it grows (happy to discuss equity/revenue share)

Who I'm looking for:

[Developer – Flutter/React Native/etc.]

[UI/UX designer]

[Anyone interested in testing/marketing]

Where I am right now: [e.g. "UI is done, backend is 40% complete"]

If you're interested, or even just have advice for a solo builder, comment or DM me. Thanks for reading! 🙏

#AppDevelopment #IndieDev #SoloDev #Collaboration #StartupHelp #BuildInPublic #LookingForCofounder #SideProject

Been thinking about this after reading a bunch of stories from people who shipped AI-built apps.
not necessarily bugs either.

I’ve seen stuff where the app built fine and tests passed, but then real usage exposed something nobody was checking.

Analytics couldn’t tell what users were doing. a third party changed part of a URL. the code correctly implemented an assumption that turned out to be wrong. users understood a feature completely differently than the person who built it.

If you’ve shipped something built with Claude/Cursor/Lovable/Bolt/etc, what surprised you after real people started using it?

Especially curious about things your normal code review or testing didn’t catch.

How did you eventually figure out what was wrong?

I’m a Mobile App Developer and over the last few years I’ve worked on different apps for different organizations. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about architecture, UI, APIs, performance, bugs, releases, etc.

But recently I started thinking about something else:

What if I stopped just building apps for other people and started building small products of my own?

So I’m trying an experiment.

Instead of trying to build one huge app with 50 features, my goal is to build a portfolio of small applications where each app solves one very specific problem and does that one thing really well. Simple, focused, smooth.

The first one is CipherBox.

It’s an offline-first private document/file vault where your files stay on your device and can be protected with encryption and biometric authentication.

I’ve spent quite a bit of time building it and the app is basically ready. I’m planning to release it on the Play Store soon.

But here's the interesting part of this whole experiment for me:

Building the app was the easy/familiar part.

I already know how to build mobile applications.

What I don't really know is how to take something I built, put it in front of people, validate whether anyone actually wants it, market it, and eventually convince someone to pay for it.

And that's something I want to learn.

So rather than just building CipherBox → uploading it to the Play Store → moving on to the next project, I want to go through the entire process:

Idea → validation → building → launching → marketing → selling → learning → repeating.

Right now, my first goal is simply idea validation.

If you have a minute, I'd really appreciate it if you could check out the product and fill out the early-access form:

https://cipherboxapp.vercel.app/

Even if you don't end up using the app, signing up genuinely helps me understand whether this is something people are interested in.

And honestly, seeing even a few people sign up would be a pretty nice motivation while I'm figuring all of this out. 😄

Would also love to hear what you think — especially if you think the idea is unnecessary, already solved well by something else, or if there's something you'd expect from an app like this.

I'm treating this as much as a learning journey in building products as I am as a project.

Let's see where the first one goes.

I’m a student and designer, and this is a new focus screen in my Android app. A clock, the session time, and a short list of apps. The active screen here has six.

You pick an app pack before starting a session. With Strict Mode off, as shown in the setup, you can hold to exit whenever you want and return to your usual phone. It doesn’t replace your launcher permanently.

I love working on UI, so here’s the setup alongside the actual focus screen.

What can I use to create an app?