The summit date is optional
Most tracking apps make the date a required field. But plenty of people remember the mountain perfectly and the date not at all.
Half a million mountains, zero network calls
Peak search could have been an API call. Shipping 50 MB of SQLite instead made the feature work in the one place it matters most.
Denali counts twice
Two famous climbing lists overlap by exactly one mountain, and there are two competing versions of one of them. The catalog has 57 entries for a reason.
A globe made of triangles, not textures
The easy way to build a 3D globe is to wrap a picture of the Earth around a sphere. That approach falls apart the moment you want a country to light up.
What we decided not to lock behind Pro
The easiest subscription to sell is one that caps the core feature. Summit does not cap it, and here is the reasoning.
How I decide which app to build next
With one person and no investors, every app has to earn its place. Here is the filter an idea has to pass before it becomes a Flowstate app.
The end-of-shift habit that pays off
The value of a tip tracker is not any single number. It is the small habit of logging every shift, and what that record tells you a month later.
Continent to city: how precisely to track a place
A weekend in a city and a layover on a continent are not the same kind of visit. Worldly lets you choose how precisely to log each place.
A viewer, not another dashboard
HogWatch never writes back to PostHog. That single constraint is what makes it safe to hand your analytics key to a phone app.
Beating decision fatigue on a free afternoon
The problem is rarely a lack of things to do. It is the small, draining decision of choosing one. SideQuest removes that decision.
The idea behind Flowstate Industries
Flowstate Industries is a one-person studio making small, offline-first iOS apps. Here is why it exists, and what that means for the people who use them.
Knowing what you really earn on tips
If you live on tips, your real hourly wage is surprisingly hard to see. Here is why a simple tip tracker for servers and bartenders changes that.