# Andreas Ink

Product-minded iOS engineering for apps that need craft, speed, and intelligence.

Independent iOS consulting for founders and teams building polished Apple-platform apps, AI workflows, prototypes, and App Store-ready products.

## Primary Action

Book a 20-minute fit call: mailto:me@andreas.ink?subject=20-minute%20fit%20call&body=Hi%20Andreas%2C%0A%0AI'd%20like%20to%20book%20a%2020-minute%20fit%20call.%0A%0AWhat%20I'm%20building%3A%0A%0AWhat%20feels%20stuck%3A%0A%0AWhat%20would%20be%20useful%20in%20the%20next%20few%20weeks%3A%0A%0AA%20few%20windows%20that%20work%3A%0A%0ATimezone%3A%0A%0AUseful%20link%20or%20context%3A%0A
Send a project brief: mailto:me@andreas.ink

## Audience

- Founders building an iOS-first product around a real customer problem.
- Small teams with a prototype, unfinished app, or product flow that needs Apple-native polish.
- Health, accessibility, productivity, education, or behavior-change teams where trust and clarity matter.
- Teams adding AI to an existing mobile workflow where the experience needs to stay useful and understandable.

## Offer

Andreas helps teams reduce the distance between a rough product idea, a usable iPhone prototype, and a shipped Apple-platform app.

### Best For

- iOS product planning, scope control, and first-version execution.
- SwiftUI apps that need onboarding, analytics, accessibility, App Store readiness, or Apple framework depth.
- AI workflows, sensors, HealthKit, App Intents, widgets, Live Activities, and complex mobile product loops.

### Not For

- Clone apps with no product insight.
- Vague app requests without a user, budget, or concrete problem.
- Projects where visual polish matters more than behavior, retention, and trust.

## Proof Points

- 11 App Store products: built across health, learning, accessibility, and behavior change
- Shipping health-tech since 2020: from COVID Watch to patient-facing StrivePD work
- AI, sensors, accessibility: complex mobile product areas

## Selected Work

### ExamCram
AI learning product. An iOS study app that turns notes into quizzes and flashcards for students who need to start, organize, and review quickly.
Proof: UNF reported that nearly 25,000 people had accessed the mobile and web product by June 2025.
Capabilities: Product strategy, SwiftUI, AI integration, Education UX
Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/examcram-study-ai-quizzes/id1595934993

### WalkLock
Screen Time behavior change. An app that helps people use screen time less by requiring real steps before distracting apps unlock.
Proof: Shows Apple-native behavior design with Screen Time, Live Activities, retention thinking, and habit loops.
Capabilities: Screen Time, Live Activities, SwiftUI, Behavior design
Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/walklock-reduces-screentime/id1633153202

### PodPosture
Sensor-driven wellness. An App Store posture app using AirPods motion data for subtle posture and movement feedback.
Proof: Shows restraint around noisy motion data and lightweight coaching.
Capabilities: Core Motion, Sensor feedback, Haptics, Wellness UX
Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/podposture-posture-improver/id1550684595

### PingPath
Accessible spatial navigation. An App Store accessibility navigation app using AI and LiDAR to help people understand indoor spaces more easily.
Proof: Shows sound-first interaction design, spatial audio, haptics, LiDAR, and accessibility judgment.
Capabilities: ARKit, LiDAR, Accessibility, Spatial UX, AI
Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pingpath-blind-ai-navigation/id1644421594

## Agent Alerts

Agent Alerts keeps one long-running agent or automation run visible as an evolving Live Activity, with source context, progress updates, and an optional deep link back to the originating work.
Availability: TestFlight beta
Capabilities: Live Activities updated through a stable activity ID, Webhook and API publishing, Local Mac MCP helper, Source-specific name and icon, Optional guarded deep links, Publish-scoped, revocable tokens stored only as hashes
Product page: https://andreas.ink/agent-alerts
Setup guide: https://andreas.craft.me/qtX8oWJYSSxbJ2
Human pairing page: https://andreas.ink/agent
Canonical agent instructions: https://andreas.ink/agent/instructions

## Product and Release Timeline

How Andreas's work moved from public-health software and broad product experiments into durable app families and reusable shipping systems.
Evidence snapshot: 2026-07-11T23:40:46.408Z
Coverage: 2020–2026
- 11 apps with distributed versions
- 146 distributed App Store versions
- 1994 visible build uploads

Focus eras:
- 2020 — Trust and public-health software
- 2021–2022 — Health sensing, accessibility, AR, and broad experimentation
- 2023–2024 — Durable product families and useful AI workflows
- 2025–2026 — Deep product ecosystems and reusable shipping infrastructure

The public dataset separates distributed App Store versions from development activity and treats GitHub repository activity as evidence of focus—not hours worked or productivity.
Timeline: https://andreas.ink/timeline

## Services

### Prototype to App Store
Turn a focused product idea into a usable iPhone version that can be tested, demoed, or submitted.

Outcomes:
- Scoped MVP
- Core iOS flow
- App Store-ready build path

Keywords: iOS prototype, MVP, App Store, SwiftUI

### iOS product rescue
Improve an existing app that feels hard to use, unreliable, visually uneven, slow, or difficult to ship.

Outcomes:
- Product audit
- Focused rebuild plan
- Polished interaction loop

Keywords: iOS rescue, product audit, onboarding, retention, analytics

### AI workflow integration
Design AI features that fit naturally into mobile products instead of turning every workflow into a chatbot.

Outcomes:
- Structured AI input/output UX
- Latency-aware states
- Useful product defaults

Keywords: AI workflow, LLM, structured outputs, mobile AI, SwiftUI

### Apple-platform systems
Build Apple-native product surfaces with HealthKit, sensors, accessibility, App Intents, widgets, and Live Activities.

Outcomes:
- System integration
- Permission-aware UX
- Accessible product behavior

Keywords: HealthKit, App Intents, widgets, Live Activities, accessibility, Core Motion

## Process

1. Clarify the first useful version: the user, first flow, riskiest assumptions, and what should wait.
2. Build the real iPhone flow with enough Apple-native system behavior to test or demo.
3. Handle polish, analytics, accessibility, error states, QA, and App Store readiness as part of the build.

## Contact

Email: me@andreas.ink
Fit call: mailto:me@andreas.ink?subject=20-minute%20fit%20call&body=Hi%20Andreas%2C%0A%0AI'd%20like%20to%20book%20a%2020-minute%20fit%20call.%0A%0AWhat%20I'm%20building%3A%0A%0AWhat%20feels%20stuck%3A%0A%0AWhat%20would%20be%20useful%20in%20the%20next%20few%20weeks%3A%0A%0AA%20few%20windows%20that%20work%3A%0A%0ATimezone%3A%0A%0AUseful%20link%20or%20context%3A%0A
Project brief prompts:
- What are you building?
- What feels stuck?
- What would be useful to have in the next 2 to 4 weeks?

## Machine-Readable Endpoints

- JSON: https://andreas.ink/api/content
- Plain text: https://andreas.ink/api/plain
- Search index: https://andreas.ink/api/search-index
- LLM map: https://andreas.ink/llms.txt