Infral Labs
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Building mobile apps that earn their place quietly over time
Lately, building has felt less about shipping and more about staying. Trust doesn’t seem to come from what an app can do on day one, but from carrying it long enough to explain why it behaves the way it does. I’m still sitting with that.
Building this has been a reminder that a working app isn’t the same as an earned app. We’re slowing down in places on purpose to see if trust shows up where speed usually does. No conclusions yet.
Lately I’ve noticed we’re making the product calmer as the tech gets louder. Fewer features. More constraints. More explaining why something is happening instead of promising fixes. Not sure yet if that’s brave or risky, but it feels right.
Forgot to account for the empty state on equipment scanning. If you haven’t added anything yet the scan just silently does nothing. Ended up adding a ‘hey add something first’ gate. Not elegant but better than users thinking it’s broken.
Working on PodSetup keeps reminding me how situational help really is. The same guidance that helps in one room can be distracting in another.
One thing vibecoding hides until it hurts: Environment variables don’t automatically mean secure. In Expo, anything prefixed with EXPO_PUBLIC_ is deliberately shipped to the client bundle. That’s not a leak. That’s the design.
I’m noticing how often early product decisions are really decisions about what to ignore. Most of the work isn’t adding, it’s deciding what doesn’t need attention yet.
Delete the app, lose your data. That’s the current state. Working on iCloud backup now. Should just work. No account, no login
I keep noticing the same pattern across products: too minimal feels careless, too complex feels disrespectful. The hard work is finding the narrow middle where people feel capable.
Mobile phones aren’t acoustic measurement tools. They’re not going to be. So the question became: What’s still useful? General placement. Broad EQ direction. Room treatment priorities. Not precise dB values. Not exact Hz filters. Directionally useful guidance.
Still trying to figure out how much help actually helps in a mobile setup. Too little breaks confidence. Too much breaks flow.
The problem isn’t podcast gear. Every room change breaks confidence. PodSetup only works if it restores that confidence.
Debating whether to ship PodSetup Studio as soon as core guidance feels solid, or hold for another pass on edge cases. Curious how others think about that tradeoff.
PodSetup Studio started from an IdeaBrowser “idea of the day.” The core problem: recording setups break down the moment creators change rooms or locations. We’re building a mobile app to reduce setup friction so creators can focus on recording, not the setup.
Building in public at Infral Labs. First app: PodSetup Studio — a mobile app helping podcasters and creators get better recording setups without the guesswork. We’ll share what we’re building and what we learn along the way.
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