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> In our actual world, I built it in about a week, and roughly half of that time was spent wrestling with different flavors of code-signing and identity provisioning and I don’t even know what.
Are you listening, Apple?
To paraphrase Steve Jobs, "You're doing it wrong". Just build a web app.
If you are paying an annual fee just for the privilege of being permitted to write software for Apple's platform, Apple can safely bet that you'll put up with the rigmarole of app deployment as well.
Only problem is that there's no iOS version. :/
My partner and I have a shortcut for “what floor is the car on” since the car is parked in a neighboring garage without assigned spots. We have a shared note and the shortcut appends a line with the date and floor on it. A second shortcut will read the last line of the note and parse the floor and present it.
Shortcut hacks we found:
- parse text from a shared note. Remember scaling is a non-issue.
- there is a “ssh to a server” shortcut option to trigger python scripts or background tasks (or home assistant, etc)
- edit on mac app
- iOS major updates break things :(
I can imagine that a good platform for making "home-cooked apps" would be beneficial both to Apple and to buyers of their products.
I believe Shortcuts was a move in the right direction.
They are indeed, I think. When was the last time you saw a really great free app? That was at the beginning of the App Store ecosystem, I think they've moved away from it.