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MomentFrame, an iOS app that turns your photos into Polaroid-style prints, with the location and date/time filled in automatically from the photo's metadata.

I started it as a quick proof of concept while my wife was in labour with our first child, partly to cope with the stress, partly I wanted to create a personal gift - tracking our journey together. So I needed, a simple way to caption the important moments of our life together with the when & where.

The goal was simple and fast, with everything on the device: no account, no tracking, no uploads. You can edit the captions and adjust the crop, then export or share. The first 5 photos are free, then a one-time $1.99 unlocks unlimited exports.

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6753585464

Side note: This side project was also a second experiment: how far can LLM coding agents get on their own? I wrote the first version in Swift, then had Claude Code port it to Flutter. It did most of the work (rendering, geocoding, the in-app purchase flow, even driving the simulator to check its own screenshots). I think Opus 4.8 was the point when the agent become truly autonomous and my input became less needed.

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