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p/significant-otterTap your Apple Watch to share your mood with your partner 💑
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Andrés Monroy-Hernández

Significant Otter - Tap your Apple Watch to share your mood with your partner 💑

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Simple app that reads your ❤ heart rate to generate a cute otter representing you. Tap to send your otter to your significant other. It's like a friendship bracelet meets a mood ring on your Apple Watch.

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Vlad Arbatov
Nice idea and cool app (probably), can't try it though. Why do you restrict access to US only?
Anna Filou
@vladzima exactly what I was wondering :/ what's the point of region locking this?
Andrés Monroy-Hernández
Maker
@vladzima @anna_0x The app uses Apple Health data (e.g., heart rate) to generate the animation on the device (not on the cloud). Still, the rules on how to deal with that type of data in different geographies seemed complex enough to lead us to keep it US-only for now. Thanks for the interest, though! We'll consider opening it more as we continue to experiment.🙏
Vlad Arbatov
@anna_0x @andresmh Thanks for the explanation! You can open it to Russian store, I can assure you nobody will care about a heart rate data ;)
Anna Filou
@vladzima @andresmh well, if Apple Health itself is available on every country, then I see no reason why your app cannot 😉 You said yourself that the user's heart rate does not leave the device anyway. The service is provided by Apple, and not by you. So it seems like you're overthinking this.
Ryan Hoover
Adorbz. Any plans to build an iPhone (non-Apple Watch) version of this, @andresmh?
Andrés Monroy-Hernández
Maker
@rrhoover thanks for the question! It's actually an iPhone app because Apple does not have watch-only apps yet. The iPhone-only experience works, but it's really optimized for the watch experience.
Ryan Hoover
@andresmh ahh of course. Thanks for the reply.
George Bougakov
@rrhoover @andresmh actually you can create independent watch apps since watchOS 6: https://developer.apple.com/docu...
Andrés Monroy-Hernández
Maker
We started by wondering how one could use the Apple Watch beyond fitness tracking, and to support social connection. We created this simple app for couples to be in touch "from the heart," watch to watch. The app generates a cute animation representing what it infers you're doing/feeling. You can then can tap to send to one (and only one) person. It's still experimental, but would be great to hear what you think! It's available only in the US for now.
Chris Dancy
@andresmh The original THREE ways to use Apple Watch. 1. Precise time keeping 2. An intimate NEW way to connect 3. Comprehensive Health and fitness tracker. Apple Watch was always desired for "From the Heart" people just stopped focusing on that side of it. Thank you for brining it back to some many who may have forgotten about why we use tech in the first place, love.
Justin Cranshaw
My partner and I have been in the beta for the last few months. We love how easy it is to feel connected and together, even when we're both busy or in meetings! It doesn't hurt that animations are also adorable. 😍
Sven van der Zee
F*cking cute
Lindsay Fuce
I've never even had a slight inclination to buy an apple watch. Until I saw this 😍
Haily Clarke
its so cute
Laura Vasquez
I love the idea! I hope that you can make it available globally one day! I am in Colombia and would love to try it with my SO.
Kyrylo Taranenko
Congrats with the launch! The idea is simple and great! Kinda reminded me about this (yes, Black Mirror reference):
Farid Bonawiede
I want to try it, but it is not available in Sweden. Why not?
Oben Isik
Sounds like a cool idea! But I could not install it. Because Apple Store gave me This App Is Not Available To Your Store error. My store is Turkey, why is that?
fred aka (Beasty)
not available on French App Store :(
ruslaniv
I'd love to try it, this is truly innovative approach to an established platform and exactly what more developers need to be doing besides fitness/weather/steps. But you geo-locked it and I see no reason why you would do it. I presume you are just accessing the data Apple watch provides via some kind of API, so it's their problem, not yours. Every smart alarm and fitness app accesses the heart rate data, sends to the cloud and whatnot.
Guido Crego
?makers why is it not available in Argentina? :(
Nik Laufer-Edel
@andresmh can you explain the privacy implications of this app? Does health data leave my device?
Andrés Monroy-Hernández
Maker
@nikdotca the health data stays in the device and it's used to generate the animation. The id of the animation (not the health data) travels to partner's device via the cloud, and its deleted from the cloud once it's viewed. Thanks for the question!
Hasan Diwan
Is it open-source so I can verify that my wife's heart rate doesn't leave her phone with this app?
Arjun Kalburgi
Can you post the animations! I'm an android kid and animation fan. YouTube? Or upload them to Product Hunt?
Mandy Rixon
When will this be available in Australia?
Lisarna Wynyard
Looks awesome, but it isn't in my app store. Looks like a few people have had the same problem: Geo locked to the US App store. I'm in New Zealand - go on unlock it!!! Please?
ALAYNA BOONE
I have a brother named Ryan