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Your own Mint Island grows and levels up as you record.
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Record each treat with a photo, and rate three feelings on a five-leaf scale.
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Every record becomes a specimen card in your collection.
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Catch the fleeting chocolate-mint moment — before it melts.
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Inspiration
I love chocolate mint so much — but the moment you eat a mint treat, it's gone. I wanted a cozy place to catch that fleeting moment and keep it, like pressing a flower into a specimen book.
What it does
- Record any chocolate-mint treat with a photo, and rate three feelings on a five-leaf scale: mint-ness, excitement, and "want it again".
- Each record becomes a "specimen" card in your collection.
- As you record, your own Mint Island grows and levels up, with little mint dwellers appearing.
- 100% free to the end. No ads. No account or sign-up. All data stays on your device.
- Optional: "buy the creator a mint" — a small ¥300 tip. Each tip welcomes a special crowned mint dweller to your island as a keepsake of your support (up to three). All core features stay free.
How I built it
The app is a vanilla web app — plain JavaScript, HTML and CSS, with IndexedDB/localStorage so everything stays on-device and offline. I wrapped it as a native iOS app with Capacitor, and the optional tip is a consumable in-app purchase powered by RevenueCat. I built it solo, as a non-engineer, with Claude Code.
Challenges I ran into
I'm not an engineer, so shipping a real iOS app was completely new territory. App Review taught me a lot — removing price words from screenshots (Guideline 2.3.7), adding a camera-usage description to fix a crash, and setting App Availability before release. Native-vs-browser differences (the "tell a friend" link and on-device backup) also needed native handling inside the Capacitor WebView.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
I actually shipped my own app to the App Store — live worldwide in 175 countries — as a solo non-coder, and it keeps its promise: free to the end, no ads, no sign-up.
What I learned
The whole journey from a web app → Capacitor → App Store → live, including how to stay calm and recover from review rejections.
What's next
Keep growing the island — more kinds of specimens, small seasonal touches, and new mint dwellers to meet.
Built With
- capacitor
- css
- html
- indexeddb
- javascript
- revenuecat
- xcode
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