TapadayAppsOllie Tyler
Creative technologist building AR filters, apps & games for artists, influencers and brands.
Projects
TapadayApps
Check His HairlineApps
GeoStickyApps
AR Product VisualisationAppsApps
Tapaday
A daily minigame app that puts you head-to-head with your friends once a day.
- Role
- Solo: design, development & marketing
- Platforms
- iOS, Unity
- Results
- 1,000+ beta users in week one
- Year
- 2022
Tapaday was a daily minigame app for iPhone. Each day everyone got the same new one-minute minigame, and friends were ranked against each other on a daily leaderboard. Ollie made it as an experiment in whether a BeReal-style daily app could work for games; Euronews described it as taking cues from BeReal but giving users "a random video game every day".
Ollie designed, built and marketed it on his own in a month, using Unity (C#) with a serverless Node.js backend. He announced it on TikTok in September 2022 with a video captioned "Please don't sue me BeReal", which has more than 410,000 plays and 64,000 likes.
In its first week of beta, while still iOS-only on TestFlight, Tapaday reached more than 1,000 users with no money spent on marketing. The app has since been removed from the App Store.
About me
Hi, I'm Ollie Tyler.
I'm a creative technologist with 10+ years in AR. My filters have been viewed more than 32 billion times across TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram, and I'm a Snapchat ambassador. Through my company, tnySocial, I build custom apps, games and AR for artists, influencers and brands, made to fit their brand and their audience. Before that I built AR campaigns at Zappar and led AR development at Poplar Studio. From London, based in Los Angeles.