Side Project Spotlight

We have made progress on our new fitness app, currently codenamed, "Bento Fit." This week we provide an update about the UI, using local Swift Packages for modularization of the codebase, creating custom HealthKit metrics, thoughts on data persistence and syncing, and next steps. Plus, tangents about running local LLMs, the fortunes of COBOL programmers, and some really bad monetization ideas. If you want to get into the headspace of some developers working on a side project, this was basically our project meeting recorded, so enjoy, tangents and all!

## Show Notes

- Bento Fit Progress Report

- https://9to5mac.com/2025/02/08/indie-app-spotlight-bentocraft/

- Temp App Icon

- Very basic layout for home view

- Settings view placeholder

- Add view placeholder

- HealthKit permissions

- WatchKit integration

- SPM refactor

- https://www.swiftystack.com

- Aaron running miles by week adventure

- Stats we want to focus on

- Heart metrics

- Running miles per week

- Caffeine / nutrients consumed

- Impromptu monetization discussion

- Customized metrics for IAP

- How to save preference data

- Shared keychain items

- Swift Data / CloudKit

- NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore

- Tangents on Cobol, PS5, etc.

- Next Steps

- Explore app’s personality using Sketch

- Add HealthKit metrics

- Add tests

- Xcode Cloud setup

- Add ability to add/remove cards from UI

- Wrap-Up

- http://phillycocoa.org

- Not a Sponsor: https://miovino.app

## Chapters

00:00 Introductions

01:09 Catch-up on Bento Fit History

07:12 Bento Fit Progress Update

09:03 Bento Fit Progress: Local Swift Package Refactor

14:22 Bento Fit Progress: Custom HealthKit Metric

17:26 Exploring HealthKit Metrics

24:03 Tangent: Bad Monetization Ideas

26:07 Tangent: Studio Display is Still Expensive!

27:24 Tangent: More Realistic Monetization Strategies

28:50 Dogfooding the Prototype

31:04 Data Persistence and Syncing Strategies

39:33 Tangent: Local LLMs

44:48 Tangent: The Fortunes of COBOL Developers

47:40 Bento Fit Next Steps

01:00:53 Wrap-Up: http://phillycocoa.org

01:01:14 Not a Sponsor: https://miovino.app

01:03:56 Tag

Intro music: "When I Hit the Floor", © 2021 Lorne Behrman. Used with permission of the artist.