After my experience being rejected from the App Store, I was left with an unscratched itch to ship a native iPhone app. Staying well away from my day-job turf of tools for motion artists, I created an app to support a hobby I fell into.
Prolost Watches is an iPhone app for managing your watch collection. It’s part database, part journal; designed for the detail-obsessed mind of the watch fanatic. As you log each day’s choice of watch, insights are revealed. Wear logs trace a path on the map. Events from the past are resurfaced at opportune times. Finances mange themselves as you buy and sell. Your entire collection lives in your pocket, and you get to enjoy all your watches, even the one’s you’re not wearing.
Vibe-coding is starting to get a bit of a reputation as just more AI slop, and it’s not totally undeserved. You see daily breathless AI-bro posts declaring an entire industry “cooked” because of something built with “a single prompt.” This would be easy to dismiss as pure hype if it wasn’t so harmful to, well, everything.
But I also see daily feed of people laboring with care and craft on apps designed to solve niche problems. My mission with Prolost Watches is to create one of these counter-examples: a luxurious, native iPhone experience. I’ve responded to user feedback from dozens of active beta testers, added creature comforts and Easter eggs, optimized performance and squashed bugs, and packed as much “it just works” in as I can. I’ve also said “no” a few times, just for good measure. Prolost Watches is my first app, and I’m proud to release it on the App Store.
Prolost Watches is a one-time purchase. There’s no subscription, no ads, no account, and no server. Your data is secure and private, and never leaves your device. Pre-order now for US$14.99, with expected release on June 16 at US$19.99.