What I’m Building for Shipaton 2025

So I’m also taking part in Shipaton this year. If you’re not familiar with Shipaton, it’s a yearly hackathon by RevenueCat where the general goal is to build a mobile app, launch it for iOS or Android, and grow it. This year’s Shipaton takes place from August to September (I’m writing this from the kickoff we had for it in Tokyo). Because I’m a RevenueCat employee, I’m not eligible to actually compete for the main prize, but I’m still taking part.

So what will I be building?

Well—three apps, actually.

Saunuas

The first one is a completely new one, called Saunuas. I’ve had this idea for a while: to build a fitness app centered around saunas. Core functionality will be to track sauna sessions—how long you were in a sauna, what your vitals were during that time, and metadata about the sauna such as humidity, temperature, etc.

A key part of the app will be an Apple Watch app. I’ve done a lot of personal testing on how well Apple Watch handles being in a sauna, and so far I’ve only managed to make it shut down due to overheating once—and that was by basically holding my hand in the hottest possible place for 15 minutes. In most cases, you’re not going to behave like that in a sauna, so it should work decently enough.

I’ll be building this in SwiftUI since it’s been some time since I’ve touched it. First features will be:

  • Displaying data from sauna sessions
  • Storing sauna sessions as workouts using WorkoutKit and HealthKit
  • A simple list view of sessions

I have many ideas on how to expand the app from here. Building a gorgeous-looking UI will be the main focus (I’m thinking of something with a dark theme, with warm reddish colors—kinda like in a sauna).

Contentfully

I built an unreleased app for managing Contentful spaces a few years ago. I recently opened it up again, and it has surprisingly nice architecture and a lot of features—but releasing it would require a lot of work. I still want to get it out, so I’ve started rebuilding it from scratch with an updated architecture that allows releasing new features more incrementally.

I’ve already made some solid progress and plan to release the MVP version next week. The first version will just allow you to view assets, models, content, and other information, but the plan is to bring editing functionality in future versions. All done in an incremental way.

Key features will also include notifications, because that’s something I feel is really missing from Contentful—at least in a way that’s easy for non-technical people to set up for their projects.

Contentfully

Netli.fyi

I originally built Netli.fyi in 2021 to manage Netlify sites on the go. It was in the App Store for a bit over a year, I think. Most of its life it was completely free, and I eventually pulled the plug on the app because fixing bugs and supporting users ended up being way too much work—especially since I was working a very demanding job at the time.

Now I’m bringing it back. Slowly, over the years, I’ve built a few different versions of it, and I think I’m going to use one of the unreleased versions as a base (image below shows just how many different versions I have on my phone).

It’s still going to be a React Native app, with a fully open source codebase. You’ll still be able to manage your Netlify sites, deploy changes, and all the bells and whistles. I’ll also be adding notifications and Live Activities this time to make it so that you can monitor your site building in real time.

Netli.fyi