I’m a Finance guy with 0 coding experience. I built an app to stop my relationship date ideas from “dying in the chat”, and it just hit Top 20 Lifestyle on the App Store.

Hi everyone,

Long-time lurker, first-time poster.

I have a background in Finance, spreadsheets, and numbers. I knew absolutely nothing about Swift, databases, or app development.

The Problem: My girlfriend and I had this recurring issue: We would send each other 100+ TikToks/Reels of "Must Visit Places" or "Cute Date Ideas." But when the weekend actually came, we’d forget everything. The links were buried under thousands of "Good morning" texts and stickers. We ended up going to the same old mall every time.

The Solution: I decided to build a solution. I utilized AI tools and learned on the fly to build WeDo: Couple Bucket List. It’s a simple app where you "Share" a link from TikTok/IG directly to the app, and it organizes them into a Bucket List & Map.

The Result: I launched it quietly. Ran some small experimental ads on TikTok and posted some content. To my surprise, it resonated. A video went viral locally, and today I woke up to find my app sitting at #20 in the Lifestyle Category (right next to Pinterest and Tinder in my country).

It’s surreal seeing my little project charting against billion-dollar companies.

Tech Stack: Flutter/Dart for cross-platform (iOS & Android), Firebase (Firestore + Cloud Functions) for backend, Swift & Kotlin for native Share Extensions, Python for content scraping automation.

I’m happy to answer any questions about the marketing or the "non-technical" journey!