BePeachy

Having a lot of plans I am back to development. Fixed some crucial bugs, including the one with randomly unavailable login. Updated stores to attract more people from in-store search. Added some UIUX features to make app more comfy. And started to implement a product research of two big features: ml predictions/recommendations/insights & social part.

That helped me a lot to get rid of anxiety because paying every month for servers was really pushing me into continuing the development, but I did not feel good about that yet. I knew I still needed to rest, and finally AWS grant gave me a big breath of fresh air.

Finally after 3 weeks of fixing bugs and making regular updates I started to feel myself burned out about the application. I did not even decide to make a break, but it came to me naturally. After that project was living on its own for half year. I was tracking metrics sometimes and found it not so bad as expected.

Finally released the app. I did not make any ads, all the promotion was going from my personal instagram. Actually it was quite good since that time I had ~100 followers and got ~150 reposts. During the first day I got around 300 users and 3 sold subscriptions.

It was not hard to make an MVP. It looked ugly, felt rusty but already had a shape. After that I ordered design, asked some friends to participate in alpha-test and tell me what they think. Shortly after I had started to change some product sides and improve project architecture, and those changes became a basis of project's current state.

After a hermit period caused by covid I had found out that my psychotherapy process slowed down. I was trying to come up with idea how to make it more intense back again, and finally decided to create the app which will help me to track how do I feel, why do I feel so, get insights and etc. The market was not so developed that time, but also I had a chance to make my app exactly in the way I need it (and my therapist practice).