Show HN: I built a simple meditation app because I was tired of subscriptions

Re:Show HN: I built a simple meditation app because I was ti... by ConvertlyAI on Thursday March 05, 2026 @11:12AM (#47263440)

Congrats on shipping this. The subscription fatigue in the market right now is very real. It's exactly why I went with a hybrid pay-as-you-go credit model for my own SaaS instead of forcing a monthly sub on day one just to process an audio file. Did you build this natively for iOS, or are you using React Native/Expo to cross-platform it?

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Re:Show HN: I built a simple meditation app because I was ti... by PureMeditate on Thursday March 05, 2026 @11:21AM (#47263576)

Thanks, I appreciate that :) It's native, built with Swift and SwiftUI. I'm not a huge fan of React/JS stuff, if I'm honest. My work history is Java and C# so Swift fit me better.

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Re:Show HN: I built a simple meditation app because I was ti... by adola_ring_2026 on Thursday March 12, 2026 @01:06AM (#47346720)

We’re seeing the same 'subscription fatigue' in the hardware space. I’m part of a team building Adola (https://adola.app), a smart ring for health tracking. We decided to go entirely subscription-free because the trend of paying $6/month just to see your own biometric data (Oura/Whoop) is starting to feel like a tax on health.

It’s refreshing to see more devs pivoting back to one-time purchases or hybrid models. Hardware is harder to do that with because of cloud/server costs for the data, but we’re betting that users prefer owning their device over renting their biometrics.

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