Story time: 13 years ago (gasp, I'm old), I had a nice and minimal (and skeuomorphic!) metronome app on the App Store. I'm a designer with limited coding skills, so it was design exercise first, until I hired a brilliant developer to build and eventually release it. Huge milestone for 24-year-old me.

Well, I could not maintain the app in the long run and it faded.

Every 3-5 days I thought about how to resurrect it myself. I started Swift tutorials, gave up, started again, gave up again. Just couldn't do it. But also couldn't shake it.

Today, I'm reading every discussion about the pros and cons of vibe coding. I watch the hype and am somewhat going through the AI disillusionment phase myself.

But then, AI coding now enabled me to actually rebuild the app exactly as I imagined it in a whole new design, but with the same minimalistic principles. This use of AI is still a wonder to me.

I honestly built this for myself, like a bespoke app for my guitar practice.

There are some good apps out there, but they weren't exactly as I needed. I'm sure some of you know this particular form of suffering where an app is perfectly fine for everyone else but you notice every tiny thing that could be better. Classic designer/developer curse.

Most importantly I wanted an app that has: - no ads, no popups or nags - no signup or trials - just works almost like a hardware tool that sits there and plays when you press the button

Happy to share it now for free with everybody who might find it useful. I went for an optional in-app purchase to a.) find out how that works and learn, and b.) maybe earn money, come on let me dream.

Bonus experiment: There's an ad- and tracking-free web version I'm thinking could be a nice gateway to the iOS app: https://www.verygoodmetronome.com

Landing Page: https://www.verygoodmetronome.com/app/

And the app itself: https://apple.co/3WllSby

Any feedback or thoughts are welcome!

My first HN post and I'm not even a hacker... please be kind?

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