Side quest · client app
Show up. They’ll see it.
A mobile app where ambitious people track their progress with a small circle that holds them accountable.
The problem
Tracking apps are lonely, and accountability groups live in messy group chats. The idea only works if two things are true:
What I built
Onboarding starts with one question: what are you pursuing? Body, Work or Mind. Then it puts you in a circle of up to 20 people who see your day as it happens.
Solo tracking isn’t what this is. This step can’t be skipped.From the circle screen
Every tracker is a one-tap widget on Today: a focus block, a meal, a training session, pages read. Your day card fills itself in, and the activity bar shows the whole day from 6:00 to midnight. There is no post button. Logging is posting.
Thursday · 24 September
Today
2h 25m
Focus
6,004kg
Volume
68/160g
Protein
The circle card shows who has logged today, the circle run (days in a row when everyone showed up) and who is still quiet. One tap nudges them. It’s allowed once per person per day, and the database itself enforces that.
Tribe
Dawn Patrol
16 of 20 · together since July
Quiet · 5Run ends at midnight
Tom
Last log yesterday 21:40
Privacy, per circle
You choose which numbers flow to each circle. Weight is off by default. The fact that you showed up always flows.
A feed that stays short
One living card per person per day. Your circle comes first, then the people you follow.
Settings without a release
Circle size and limits live in the database, so Nickolas can change them without shipping a new version.
Design system
I gave the app its own design system. On iOS 26 the tab bar, pills and round buttons use Apple’s native Liquid Glass. On Android and older iPhones they switch to a frosted look that doesn’t pretend to be glass.
iOS 26 and later: native glass, with lensing and a specular edge.
How I built it
Before writing app code I built a clickable prototype of the whole app, so every screen was agreed up front. Then I designed the product topic by topic and wrote each decision down. I make the calls, and the AI that does the typing works from those decisions, not from guesses.
Flutter for iOS and Android, with a design system of its own instead of Material or Cupertino.
What counts as showing up, streaks and circle runs live in plain Dart, and every rule is unit-tested.
Row-level security on every table, so even a modified app can’t read around it.
Supabase Realtime pushes your day to your circle the moment you log something.
Circle size and limits live in an admin-editable config, with safe defaults if it can’t load.
Day one is already on the board.
Building it now with Nickolas, for iOS and Android.
