In 2017, what was supposed to be a relaxing surfing trip to Sri Lanka turned into the beginning of a two-year battle with anxiety and depression. One morning, I hit my foot on an underwater stone while surfing. At first, it seemed like a minor bruise, but the warm, humid climate slowed the healing, and it developed into a severe infection.
When I got back home, I could barely walk without pain. After months of antibiotics and treatments, the infection finally healed—but by then, anxiety and depression had taken over. I started experiencing constant shortness of breath and heart palpitations, even during light exercise. I spent countless hours in doctor’s offices, undergoing tests, but was always told I was “fine.”
I’ll never forget the worst moments—lying awake at night, convinced I was having a heart attack, rushing to the ER only to hear the same thing: “Your heart is fine.” The fear didn’t go away, and I felt more trapped than ever.
For nearly two years, I struggled to find answers and solutions. Medications didn’t help me. In fact, they just made things worse and left me feeling numb and brain-fogged.
It took time and a lot of adjustments, but I eventually managed to completely overcome anxiety and depression. It’s been more than 5 years now, and I’m feeling better than ever. I still vividly remember the incredible moment when my natural serotonin production restarted after gradually coming off the meds. I began waking up happy and energised instead of totally depressed and exhausted. Even simple things, like listening to music, gave me happy tingles I hadn’t felt in years.
Looking back, I realised how much faster I could have recovered if I’d had the right knowledge from the start. One of the main turning points for me was recognising the importance of my gut microbiome and how it impacted my mental state. This led me to methods for uncovering and tackling the deeper causes of my anxiety—not just managing the symptoms. Understanding how my anxiety triggers worked and learning to neutralise them gave me the clarity and tools I needed to finally move forward.
As I got better, I started noticing more and more TikTok and Instagram videos about anxiety, and what struck me the most were the comment sections. So many people were sharing their struggles—describing their debilitating anxiety symptoms, and expressing how lost they felt in finding answers. It reminded me so much of my own painful journey and made me think that perhaps I should compile my insights and share what helped me recover.
So I decided to team up with clinical psychologists and make an app that I wish I had when my anxiety & depression kicked in. The goal is to help others avoid the trial-and-error I went through and provide tools to manage anxiety that are based in the latest research.
Furthermore, a University of Toronto study revealed that 72% of participants fully recovered from anxiety when following well-rounded treatment plans, showing that most people can find their way to recovery. These principles became the foundation of Calmer.
I’d love to hear your thoughts and experiences with anxiety, and answer any questions—your feedback can help us improve the app and reach more people in need.
100% AI for the cover photo. If you look at their other blog posts it looks like Uber eng doesn't care. They use lazy AI generated images (not even decent attempts at it) for all blog post cover images.
Oh wow. There's a clear trend in that data with newer winners being cheaper and cheaper to make. The clearest proof of the democratization of animation I've seen.
And wow animated movies used to be expensive. I think Netflix's Arcane and Blue Eye Samurai are also part of a new wave of great animation for teenagers/adults that is happening because technology has made it more economical.
It's a 4 letter word, commonly used in internet slang to refer to a good film.
I saw the announcement pretty early on and when I started typing in "kino" into the App Store search, the first autocomplete suggestion was the rest of the app's title in the listing "- pro video camera", and if I clicked that one it showed the app first (well, first result after an ad)
It's improved as people download it, the root comment by petercooper though found it at position 5. It's also not just a 4 letter word search it was the full app name which is where I was saying it was particularly bad. That's 17 letters not counting spaces and an exact match, that should be a really strong signal even with a brand new app that the person is looking for that app.
> commonly used in internet slang to refer to a good film.
This is a great app. I've also been looking for a better image search for iPhone.
The only thing that I think could be improved - allow loading original images in the search results. If you are using iCloud to store the images then only the small cached versions are returned.
In the latest version, you can run the app to network in order to download iCloud photos, but this will only happen when.
1. the photo is indeed stored in iCloud
2. Your search results include this photo
3. You went to the photo details page and clicked the Download from iCloud icon
Only then will Queryable request network permissions in a pop-up window. After granting it, you kill the app, reopen it, and it will automatically download from iCloud.
That’s not how it work for mobile platforms. Developers usually set the targets correctly, so incompatible devices can’t install the app, rather than relying on the users to read some text in some website (not appstore where they install it).
AFAIK you cannot set arbitrary compatible devices. You can only set UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities, which are quite limited[0]. There is a required capability for `iphone-ipad-minimum-performance-a12`, but not for A13.
And also if you already have the app in the App Store, you can only relax these requirements. You cannot add new ones as that could prevent users who already bought the app from launching it.
BTW the minimum requirements are listed in Queryable's App Store description as well, although I would consider putting them on the very top.
