Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is on an app-building spree. After releasing a Bluetooth-based messaging app referred to as Bitchat earlier this month, this weekend Dorsey revealed one other app referred to as Solar Day that ostensibly helps customers monitor UV publicity and Vitamin D consumption.
The brand new app is obtainable through TestFlight on iOS, and its code is on GitHub for anybody to clone.
Like different builders, Dorsey is driving the vibe-coding bandwagon. However as a substitute of utilizing Cursor, Claude Code, or Windsurf, he says he’s utilizing an open-source coding instrument referred to as Goose.
Solar Day is easy to make use of. It exhibits you the UV Index on your location together with particulars like cloud cowl, dawn, and sundown timings. You may select your pores and skin kind from six choices, and what sort of clothes you’re carrying. Based mostly on these parameters, the app will calculate how lengthy you possibly can expose your pores and skin to daylight earlier than it begins to burn.
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The app additionally exhibits your minimal vitamin D consumption. Begin a session by tapping on the “Observe UV Publicity” button, and after the session is ended, the app will present how a lot vitamin D you’ve gained all through the session, and within the day.
