Aporix Ships — A Marketplace for Ideas, Validated Before Code
Most ideas never get built because the people who have them and the people who can build them never meet. Aporix is an iOS app that fixes that — idea owners post, developers discover, and empathy counts turn into a public demand score. After months of building and an Apple review cycle, Aporix is now live on the App Store.
Aporix is live on the App Store. This is the short version of a longer build — a mobile-first marketplace where ideas don't die in notebooks because no one who could build them ever sees them. The premise: separate the idea from the implementation, and let the market speak first.
In my freelance work I sit in both seats. Clients show up with ideas but no engineering skill; engineers I know have skill but no idea that excites them enough to build. The bridge between the two is rarely price — it's validation. No one wants to build for free, and no one wants to pay to build something that might have zero demand. Aporix makes that validation the first step, not the last.
The core mechanic is the empathy count. When an idea is posted, other users can tap "I want this" — not a like, not a bookmark, a public signal of demand. The number is visible on every idea card, and developers browse ranked by that signal. Ideas that resonate climb; ideas that don't, stay quiet — which is also information. It turns gut feel into a tiny market.
Stack: React Native (Expo) for iOS, a shared TypeScript Turborepo monorepo so the landing-page Next.js app and the mobile app reuse the same domain types, Supabase for auth / data / storage, and RevenueCat for subscription entitlements. The monorepo was the single biggest structural decision — "add a field" becomes one edit, not a race condition between two codebases that will have drifted by Tuesday.
Shipping to the App Store required a different rigor than shipping a web app. Privacy disclosures have to match what the code actually does. In-app purchase flows must be testable by a reviewer whose sandbox does not mirror a real user. User-generated content needs a moderation path from day one, not bolted on later. None of this is surprising in retrospect — but nothing about web deploys prepares you for it. The review cycle is deliberately slow, and unforgiving about any gap between what an app claims and what it does.
What I'm watching now: how early users actually post — do they describe ideas in enough detail for a developer to act, or do they drop one-liners? How empathy counts distribute — do a few ideas dominate, or is attention spread? And whether the move from "I want this" to an actual build happens without me stitching it manually. The app is live; the real product starts now. Download link below — feedback of any kind is genuinely welcome.