I’ve been working on a side project called Eurth.
It’s a simple iOS app for tracking daily supplements, medications, and injectables. You build your stack, check things off each day, and can see your consistency over time.
I built it because I felt like there wasn’t one calm, simple place to track all the stuff people actually take — vitamins, prescriptions, GLP-1s, B12 shots, IVF meds, etc. Most apps I found felt too clinical, too narrow, or just not something I’d want to open every day.
It’s very early, but it’s live on TestFlight now.
I’d really appreciate feedback on:
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onboarding
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adding products
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daily check-offs
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what feels confusing
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what features you’d expect from something like this
Would love any honest thoughts - let me know if you are down.
I built my first side project in 2022. It was a habit tracker with a twist — you'd compete against friends. I spent six months obsessing over the UI, the animations, the perfect onboarding flow. Launched it to crickets. Maybe 12 signups, all friends and family. Dead in a month.
Project number two was a bookmarking tool for developers. Three months of solo building, this time I even added a dark mode (surely that would help, right?). Same story. Built it alone, launched it quietly, watched it gather dust.
Project three was simpler. A small widget thing I threw together in two weeks. I actually tweeted about it DURING the build this time — just a rough screenshot and a "building this thing" post. A few people commented. I kept sharing little updates. By the time I "launched" (if you can call publishing a landing page a launch), I had about 40 people waiting.
That project is still running today. Nothing huge, but paying users I didn't have to drag in.
The difference wasn't the code or the idea. It was that I let people watch me build. They felt invested before the thing even existed.
I used to think side projects fail because of bad marketing or bad timing. But honestly, the biggest killer is building alone for months and then expecting people to care on day one. They won't. You have to earn their attention during the build, not at the finish line.
Still learning this stuff. Anyone else have a similar wake-up call moment?
