People in my city sit in the sun like plants. I kept missing it. So I built an app.
I live in a city where sunshine feels like a holiday.
When the sun comes out, something magical happens — people just appear. On benches, in plazas, on any patch of concrete that catches the light. Like plants turning toward a window.
I loved watching it. But I kept missing it myself.
Working from home, deep in some task, I'd look up and realize the sun was already gone. Again.
Another golden afternoon I spent indoors without noticing.
One day I checked my Apple Watch health data. It tracks "Time in Daylight" — something I'd never looked at.
My numbers:
What I estimated: 30 min/day
What I actually got: 12 min/day
Weekdays: almost zero
I was living like a vampire and had no idea.
So I decided to build something about it.
No coding experience. Just AI tools and stubbornness.
2 weeks later, I had an app. 🎉
4 App Store rejections later, I had an app that actually worked.
It's called SunshinePal:
→ Tracks your real sunlight exposure
→ Gives you a daily score based on time, frequency, and morning sun
→ Shows your weekly patterns (turns out I'm a weekend-only human)
→ Reminds you when the sun is out
Now it's live. Free to use.
For the remote workers. The cloudy city dwellers. The accidental vampires.
