Manuel Zarroca

Hey everyone!

My name is Manuel and I'm a high school student and founder of @Nomadful (nomadful.io), a mental health app available on iOS, and coming soon to Android. Working on this app for the last year has been an enlightening experience for me and I couldn't be more grateful for all the acquired knowledge, so I've made a short recap for this project, on a one-challenge-one-milestone basis.

1. Registering a company and maintaining a business: being underage makes this process insanely difficult. For context, I live in Mexico and I'm 17 years old. To register a company here, I would've had to make any of my parents one of the owners, and then they could entitle a minor to own a share of that company. I wanted a little more independence and flexibility, so ended up registering a business in the UK, where I own an address. Furthermore, registering the company in the UK was nearly 6 times cheaper compared to Mexico and I pay 10% less taxes.

2. Signing up to developer programmes: this was everything but seamless. After about two months with back and forth conversations with Apple, we finally came to an agreement where my mom basically signed and provided documentation on my behalf. After that, paying the application fee was a nightmare. I only had credit cards from Mexico and they wanted a UK card, but after various tries, their payments portal finally accepted my card.

3. Finding time between school and weekends: school itself is already demanding here, and I had lots of projects coming up almost every month, and most of the times I thought my weekend was free, it didn't turn out to be the case. I often work on the project during vacation.

4. There are some things I still can't do: being patient is definitely the hardest challenge. I still can't publish the app on android, open a bank account, or cash out my earnings. But in the end, I've learned that I'm just 6 months away from solving these issues, and I know being patient will pay off.

@mat_sherman and I have been talking about meditation and I was remembering I had tested out @Calm and @Headspace. I searched forums and see references to these in convos 5 years ago. They still seem like the main contenders, but I also just downloaded @Insight Timer App @Breathwrk and https://www.meditatehappier.com/ too.

Anyone have experience with any of these? I'm new to meditation, have tried it a few times but have yet to build a habit and need to! Any recs are greatly appreciated!

Hello there!

It's been quite some time since I launched Nomadful for the first time here on ProductHunt, and just last week I re-launched the app to share some of the latest features with you guys. This is also my first post on the thread so sorry about that little cold-email-like vibe. I promise this post will be brief!