PROBLEM
Travel apps turn a trip into a grid of photos. The trip itself — the road, the distance, the order of the places — disappears. Nothing in the App Store turned a real route into something worth posting.
INSIGHT
We read 1,043 reviews of competing apps before designing a screen. The recurring complaint: fake straight lines between pins. People wanted the road they actually drove. Real-road maps became the differentiator.
BUILD
A custom Metal render pipeline composes the recap on-device, frame by frame, with no server in the loop. Route rendering was built to stay inside MapKit terms of service. No footage leaves the phone. 131 Swift files, 399 commits.
SHIP
Two App Review rejections, both passed. In-app purchases approved. Version 1.0.5 is live — released when it was ready, not when a date said so.
GROW
A creator pilot is running with paid collaborations and offer codes — distribution tested with real money, not with a launch post.
