I built a film camera app for my girlfriend launching soon
Hey
I'm Boran, solo indie dev. I built an iPhone app called NiCam and I'm launching on Product Hunt in the next couple weeks.
The short story: my girlfriend kept saying she wanted one of those old digital cameras with the tiny screen on the back. I didn't really get it. Then on her birthday, her best friend showed up with a scratched iPhone 6 she'd dug out of a drawer. The whole night people kept passing it around taking photos with it. Bad sensor, slow shutter, weird colors. And every single person at that table was losing it over the pictures.
I went home thinking about that for weeks.
The thing people loved wasn't really nostalgia. It was that nobody had to edit anything. You pressed a button and got something with character. No 14 sliders, no filter scrolling.
So I started building NiCam.
You open it, pick a film stock (Portra 400, Kodachrome 64, CineStill 800T, a few others), and shoot. The grain, halation, color science - all baked into the capture using Metal shaders, not LUTs slapped on top. No processing wait. Just point and shoot.
What I'd love from this community:
Honest feedback on the App Store screenshots - would you download it from the listing? Why or why not https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-film-camera-nicam/id6770661316
Follow me here on PH so you get a ping when it launches. Early supporters get 1 month free instead of the usual 3-day trial.
If you actually shot film back in the day, tell me what stock you miss most. Whichever one gets mentioned the most here goes in the next update.
This is my first solo launch. Bootstrapped, no team, just me and Cursor for three months. Any feedback - gentle or brutal - genuinely appreciated.
Boran
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