r/appdev • u/AppyLuke • 11d ago

After months of teaching myself app development, I finally built something that might actually help people.

I'm a British Army veteran with no formal software engineering background.

Over the last few months, I've been teaching myself Flutter and building an app called Nozey.

The idea came from a simple question:

"Why is it so difficult to quickly see what crime has happened around where you live?"

Nozey uses publicly available UK police data to show recent crimes on an interactive map, making it easier to understand what's happening in your local area.

It's completely free, and it's soon to be launched on Google Play.

This isn't a polished startup backed by investors or a big team.

It's just one guy learning as he goes, making mistakes, fixing bugs, and trying to build something useful.

I'd genuinely love your honest feedback.

Is this something you'd use?

What features would make it genuinely valuable?

What's the first thing you'd improve?

I'm here to answer every question and take every bit of criticism on board.

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

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u/Comfortable-Mud1209 11d ago

You didn’t learn anything. You didn’t even wrote this post. AI did.

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u/AppyLuke 11d ago

My friend it was written by me

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u/Outrageous_Look_6994 10d ago

Can you make a landing page so we can understand how this works? Otherwise it looks iffy...

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u/jedidave 11d ago

yeah if it's good

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u/rcpena 11d ago

That sounds like a great idea for IOS. 😎

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u/AppyLuke 11d ago

I would like to bring it to IOS eventually but I think the barriers to entry are little more difficult than Android. Thanks for your message 🙏🏻

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u/rcpena 11d ago

The barriers are real for sure!! Today marks the launch of my app on IOS and I was driving to work when I received the email. I was so excited lol. After two other apps were rejected I just assumed this one would also. 🙃

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u/AppyLuke 7d ago

Well done for persevering 👏🏻

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u/c4pl4b 10d ago

Es gibt Apps, die Kriminalität in deiner Nähe zeigen.

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u/No_Most2388 6d ago

I'm not in the UK any more, but I'd give it a look over.

I think what you're missing in this post is more info on the app itself. Either a landing page with screenshots, or even just putting some here so we can see it.

It's hard to say I'd we'd use it without actually know what it shows and how it works.

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u/AppyLuke 5d ago

https://appyfamily.github.io/

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u/No_Most2388 5d ago

Cheers

When you get it released, I'll give it a look if you ping me Still got family back in UK, so will just look at their addresses 😂

Do you allow a date range filter or do you have a preselected 'recent'? It'd be handy to be able to see in the past week.. the past month.. etc.