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Active development: Apr 2024 – May 2024 · Removed from Play Store: 12 Jul 2025 (no longer maintained after full-time at Class)

Idea

Some people with cognitive or orientation challenges struggle with turn-by-turn maps that assume you can parse streets, landmarks, and multi-step directions. Get Home is a deliberately simpler alternative: save the places you already know, pick one, and follow a single large arrow that always points toward that destination. The product is not trying to replace Google Maps. It is a focused accessibility aid for walking to familiar locations — home, a clinic, a relative’s place — where the only question that matters is “which way do I walk right now?”

Implementation

Built in Flutter around two continuous phone signals: GPS position and compass heading. You can save multiple destinations as named coordinates. When a destination is selected, the app streams the device location and compass direction, then computes the bearing from the user’s current position to the target. The UI shows a large directional arrow rotated to that bearing so the person can keep walking while the arrow stays aimed at the destination. There is no turn-by-turn routing, no account system, and no social layer — by design. The hard part was keeping the arrow stable and readable with noisy compass and GPS updates, and making the destination list easy enough that someone can pick a place without digging through a complex map UI. I shipped it as a small personal accessibility experiment, then removed it from the Play Store later when I stopped maintaining store listings after starting full-time at Class.