Waves is an indie app for iOS, developed by one person with no background in software development.
Waves provides a unique evidence-based approach to creating a more mindful work experience for users, empowering them to identify sources of energy or stresses over time. Your Waves can highlight relationships between aspects of work you might not have noticed before, and provide you insights to help build emotional resiliency.
The developer holds a PhD in Organizational Psychology, spending years studying topics like: burnout, work-stress, recovery from work-stress, and work motivation. Over time, they created an approach to thinking about and tracking their daily experiences to help build a more mindful experience at work. Combining elements from across several theories, they developed a unique framework for thinking about the day-to-day experiences that leave a worker feeling drained or energized.
At first they used this framework to keep track for themselves on paper, but a curiosity about iOS programming lead them to start working on an app in 2022. Progress was slow, but by the end of 2023 a working prototype had been developed. A year later, Waves was ready to help other people. Launching in 2024, Waves is available on the iOS app store and continues to make steady improvements and updates.
Created in Swift with Ignite