A quick update on where things are at

I’ve been sitting on the PrayerShare project for a while now. And honestly, part of the reason it hasn’t moved as fast as I wanted is that I got stuck on something kind of dumb — I was convinced I needed to build it as an iOS app first.

That made sense in my head. PrayerShare is the kind of thing that should live on your phone. It’s personal, it’s quiet, it’s the kind of app you open during a moment of stillness. An iPhone app just felt right. So I kept putting it off because I didn’t have the right setup, didn’t have a MacBook, and Swift development wasn’t something I could just jump into from anywhere.

So it stalled.

The Pivot I Should Have Made Earlier

Here’s what I’ve been learning: almost every app starts as a web app anyway. Whether you’re using a platform like Median.co to wrap your web content into a native iOS and Android shell, or you’re eventually going full native — you need the web layer first. The logic, the interface, the experience. That has to exist before anything else does.

Median.co kind of made this click for me. It’s a platform that takes your existing web app and converts it into a real native app. And when I realized that’s how it works — that the web app isn’t a lesser version of the thing, it is the foundation — it changed how I was thinking about the whole project.

I don’t have to choose between web and iOS. I build the web app well, and the path to iOS opens up from there. That’s just the logical starting point.

Getting the Feel Right

The other piece I’ve been thinking through is design. PrayerShare isn’t supposed to feel like a productivity tool. It’s not supposed to feel like social media. It needs to feel calm. Grounded. Like a space you actually want to open when you’re trying to be still and pray.

I’ve been using Design.md to work through that — specifically their questionnaire process, which helps you define the emotional vibe of an app before you start making visual decisions. That’s been genuinely helpful. Instead of just picking colors and fonts and hoping they feel peaceful, you’re actually reasoning through what the experience should feel like and working backward from there.

Where Things Are Headed

So that’s where I’m at. PrayerShare is moving forward, starting with the web app. The design is going to be thoughtful and intentional — built around calm, not chaos. And once the web version is solid, Median is one option for getting it onto the App Store without having to rebuild everything in Swift.

I’ll keep updating here as it progresses. Nothing too polished — just where things are and what I’m learning along the way.

More on the PrayerShare project as it develops.