Snop – capturing AI prompts whilst running on Lakeland fells

A quick look at Snop, a local-first iPhone app for capturing prompts and ideas for AI agents on the go, then using them back on the Mac. Discover what works (and what is hard) when designing and shipping an AI-adjacent indie app during Shipaton.

Peter is a product designer, creative technologist, and strategic thinker with over 15 years of experience designing products and platforms for brands like Spotify, Meta, the NHS, and the BBC.

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1. Snop Capture prompts on the go. Use them on your Mac. Peter Koraca
2. About me
3. Peter Koraca I’ve been helping organisations design and ship data-driven and AI products that actually work for over 15 years.
4. Peter Koraca I run a collective called Creative Crow – what we do sits between product, design and engineering: and when we do our job right, those three align and something magical happens.
8. Peter Koraca I run ultramarathons in the Lakes District
9. The Problem
10. My best ideas never arrive at my desk
12. 1. How to quickly capture the ideas and prompts? 2. How to organise them and keep the inbox tidy?
13. Apple Notes get really fiddly Todoist wants everything to be a task Sending myself messages just feels insane (:
14. The Solution
18. That’s it
19. Lock-screen widget
20. (Siri) App Intents
21. Menubar item
23. The Journey
24. Jul 12th Striding edge, Helvellyn
25. Build a prototype Typically I’d ask users… but this time I was the user Test with users Test with users
28. Apple only vs Cross-platform
29. Swift+SwiftUI Expo+React Native
30. Swift+SwiftUI Electron + React
31.  Apple only vs Cross-platform Native feel, micro-interaction quality, iCloud
32. days
33. weeks
35. Annoying lessons learned: 1. Don’t use iPhone, Mac or iPad in subtitles 2. Don’t submit iOS and Mac platforms AND a subscription product all at once 3. Add link to terms of service to description
36. days
38. July Foundations, Version 0 August Monetisation & Platform experiments Design System Version 1 September Widgets, Siri intents, bug fixes Mac menubar improvements iPad layout Design polish, animations We are here ( iPhone Duo Apple watc
39. Get in touch, Try Snop
40. Snop.dev Capture prompts on the go. Use them on your Mac. Peter Koraca