Show HN: I made a running app that turns your runs to a virtual garden

📰 Hacker News · Utkarshn101

I started running 5 years ago and it completely changed me. Recently, I decided to train for my first marathon and needed something more than just tracking my runs to motivate me. I noticed all the apps currently available are just trackers and route finders, but nothing has solved the problem of consistency. So I thought of combining the basic idea of the Forest app with running and created a small app for myself which would reward me with plants and trees for my runs. I am not a mobile developer but then i came across Capacitor. Since I knew Next.js and have been working with it for the past 2 years, I built the app with it. I started using it and showed it to some of my friends and they really liked it. The gamification gave me a mental boost of planting more trees and plants in my virtual garden and just seeing it flourish made me happy. Then I decided to publish it on Play Store and also built it for iOS devices as many of my friends had iPhones. It took weeks to build and release

Published 27 May 2025
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