Blog: App-maker
My challenges as an independent app-maker
A couple of years ago I started to learn to code with Flutter and dart in order to code my own mobile application, Tribe Check. In addition to learning the technology, and before my product was available to all on the stores, I encountered many challenges, technical, of course, but also administrative. Here is an overview of my main challenges as an independent app-maker, starting as a digital designer!
Tribe Check at Geneva Digital Health Day 2025
I will be presenting my mobile app, Tribe Check, at the Geneva Digital Health Day 2025 on May 22nd.
In just 5 minutes, I’ll pitch how Tribe Check provides a safety net for vulnerable individuals—and how it can support doctors, nurses, and healthcare professionals in following up with at-risk patients. The goal: making sure that if something happens, someone knows and takes action.
From UX to app-making: a self-taught journey
After about 20 years as a UX Designer, I started feeling this eager to actually make something. Not a mock-up or a wireframe. The real product. 3 years later, my first app is live on the Play and App stores, I am working on a PRO version and starting my first ever PR campaign to promote it and reach my users. From learning to code with Flutter and dart to how ChatGPT and Copilot helped me through that journey, here is a summary of how it went.