My bike map app just hit the App Store
Sarah Ritter, Product Manager - AI builder · Published October 21, 2026
A product manager built a map for one small town. It works with no signal, asks for nothing, and exists so her family can bike to the playground and then to ice cream.
I finally got my app approved in the App Store. It's called Bike Brevard Map, and if you visit Western North Carolina this fall you might find it useful.
It shows ice cream, playgrounds and local businesses, and the bike path that links them. Brevard has a greenway and a lot of places worth biking to, even with small children in tow. Biking to the playground and then to ice cream has helped my little family enjoy this town, and I wanted something that would encourage visitors and local families to brave the same small adventures.
The app draws the 3.5-mile Brevard Bike Path end to end, plus the three connectors riders actually use to get past where the pavement stops. Twenty-eight destinations you can switch on and off by category: ice cream, playgrounds, breweries, bike shops, repair stations. Turn on what you want and the map shows only that, in the order you'll reach it, with mile markers. There are nine curated rides, from a 3.8-mile spin downtown to a 15.5-mile loop, each with distance, riding time, difficulty and a stop-by-stop itinerary.
What it doesn't do matters just as much. No account, no sign-up, no ads, no tracking, and it never asks for your location. The whole map is bundled into the download, so it works out in Pisgah with no signal and costs nothing to run. It covers Brevard and nowhere else. That's deliberate. A map made for one town can know things a map of everywhere cannot.
I've spent most of this year building with AI tools and I won't pretend it was smooth. Earlier this spring I was working in Claude Code, Warp, n8n and Supabase, using Claude like a senior architect guiding me through the back end. Some days my brain hurt. Claude once "creatively" moved a navigation item and skipped a whole feature, which was on me for skipping my usual documentation. I still find myself asking the design thinking questions: does this add value, what does the user really need here? That part is still my job.
Getting through App Store review took over a week and felt a bit like paying an entry fee. But it's live. Download it, bike to the playground, get the ice cream.
Get Bike Brevard Map on the App Store
As told to Allison Esposito Medina for Willa Magazine.
Tools used
- Claude Code
- Supabase
- n8n
- Warp
- Magic Patterns
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