I used AI to make an iPhone app I'm actually proud of
You should be building your own portfolio of mini-apps
AI tools are significantly lowering the barriers of app development. I spend most of my working time on web apps, but AI has given me enough of a boost that I’m starting to get a portfolio of mobile apps off the ground too.
Each of these is progressively more useful than the last.
But I wasn’t super proud of any of them until recently.
Introducing Breathify
I’ve been getting into breathwork lately, and I wanted to put my own spin on some of the more popular breathwork apps. I built and shipped Breathify, faster than any mobile app I’ve ever shipped.
The app is minimal, with the intent of being maximally calming. It has a great onboarding, a couple core features, and customizable haptics.
If you want to see how I built it, there were a few newsletter editions that went out while I was building it:
Interested in seeing what Opus 4.5 and I came up with? It’s on the app store!
