I discovered the world of specialty coffee last year, fell into the rabbit hole and am now building a coffee journal and bean tracking app called Coffee Library (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/coffee-library/id6664071528?uo...).

Probably the best way to develop your taste and understand the spectrum of different coffees available is to do comparative tasting aka try a small number of coffees in parallel to compare and contrast. I was having trouble finding tasting sets so I started freezing a little portion of every coffee bag I bought to create a collection for doing these tastings at home.

I needed something to keep track of them all (as well as my tasting notes in general) so instead of using a spreadsheet I built a full app for it. The app supports NFC-tagged containers which I've found to make my workflow a whole lot easier.

I also set up an online store to sell the NFC-equipped single-dosing tubes: https://store.coffeelibrary.app Planning on adding more containers that work well with the app in the future.

This is awesome. I was considering building something very similar, but great to see it already exists.

How are you building the app? The interface makes me think it's native SwiftUI?

Yeah, all SwiftUI. I'm curious, was there anything specific that you saw in the interface that makes it obvious (vs UIKit)?

The segmented view at the top of each of the screenshots is "modern" app vibe which tend to be SwiftUI. It was just a hunch.

The photos too. That kind of stuff with the text overlays is way easier to build in SwiftUI; especially in a tableview.

nice, fun project!

there is a really great app that i found super useful called roastguide (roastguide.app). i have tried many of them but this is by far the most complete one

Tl;dr: I built an app called Supplies (https://apps.apple.com/ee/app/supplies-home-inventory-app/id...) to help me track and plan my food and other supplies.

When the lockdown started, I noticed I had a two food-related problems: 1) I was used to stopping by the grocery store more or less every day on my way home from work so I had no habit of planning ahead for more than a few days at a time. 2) In order to fit a week+ worth of food in my apartment, I had to distribute it between a few nooks and crannies which made it difficult to track what items I had where.

To help transition to my new once-a-week shopping schedule, I used Trello at first but that quickly grew unmanageable. So I decided to spend some time to build myself the right tool for the job. I realized other people may have run into the same issues I had so I tought I’d release it to the App Store.