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18 points by mikecaulley 2255 days ago
Two weeks ago when walking around my neighborhood I noticed a strange amount of teddy bears placed in the windows of homes. When I got home I searched the internet and found https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/style/teddy-bear-scavenge... describing that this was being done to provide additional entertainment for people going on walks during these times of social distancing.

This past week I decided to repurpose some old code into an app that would allow me to keep track of the teddy bears I found while on my own walks. It's quite simple but I hope others can get some enjoyment out of it! :)

Here is the Apple App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/teddy-tracker/id1507523019

3 comments

I just saw a teddy bear make an appearance in a neighbor's window and I thought it was a one-off. No idea this is a larger-scale scavenger hunt.

It's nice to see a positive story every and now then -- and the UI on the iOS app looks great!

This is cool. Would you be ok open sourcing the base boilerplate?
Let me look into what effort it would take to clean up the code and put it on Github. I'd be happy if it helped others starting a project. It heavily utilizes ReSwift and SnapKit, two libraries I wanted to gain some more experience with.
Would definitely appreciate it. Ooh nice I would be keen to see how you implemented those libraries.

I’d love to create a few little ideas using the base concept.

Great idea, well-executed, and very creative! I love it!