🌸 Wave
What is Wave?
Wave helps you spend more time with your friends on the activities that you said you'll do together one day. This app is designed for mobile - you can try it out here!
The story behind Wave
I have a bad habit of forgetting to make plans with friends. We always say "let's do that" or "that sounds cool", then suddenly months have passed and we still haven't done the thing.
So, I wanted to build a tool for me to put all the ideas of what I want to do with my friends e.g. activities, restaurants and events. Currently, these ideas live in a screenshot or a note in my notes app - not very actionable or fun. The goal of the app was to help me answer two questions:
- Which friend(s) haven't I seen recently?
- What did we say we want to do?
What I learnt from university and previous projects is that functional prototypes are a much easier way to get an idea into the world. You can always make it look better later. The first iteration of Wave looks nothing like it does today - it was a list of friends with a list of activities. That was it. I went through about 17 iterations before finally landing on what you see today. Even the ships went from a name card to a floating circle then circle with an emoji before it became the hand-drawn illustrations.
As I was building, I thought it would be fun to experiment with a set of watercolour pencils that have been sitting in a drawer since I came back from Japan last December. I've always love arts and crafts, and making my own project was the perfect reason to incorporate physical illustrations into the digital world. So, in the spirit of play, I sat down one afternoon to experiment with different forms and colour combinations to see what style I liked best, before finally landing on the ships you see in the app.
Overall, I think this was a nice quick way to get back into dev and it was very fun to see the illustrations and animations get updated through each iteration. Now, onto the next project!
Dev notes
Features
- Add friends to your harbour, each one gets a ship
- Ships drift apart with time
- Unconfirmed activity ideas appear as bubbles in the sea
- Go fish an activity and catch a fish for your collection
- Complete activities faster to catch different fish types
- All data is stored locally on your device - no tracking and no sharing. Keep all your plans private.
Guide
Wave was built to be mobile-first so that I could quickly access it on the go.
Start by adding your friends to your harbour, they will appear as ships in the sea.
Then, add activities with or without friends. Unconfirmed activity ideas appear will appear as bubbles in the sea. Click on your ship to see actionable activities:
- Mark activities as done
- Find a friend for an activity
Marking an activity as complete will add that activity as a fish for your collection. The faster you complete activities, the more rare your fish will be.
Version history
V1 build time: 2026-06-24 - 2026-06-30
2026-06-30 V1 Launch!