Hangar

Hangar is a mobile-first idea parking app built for those random “wait… this could be something” moments. Instead of letting ideas disappear into WhatsApp chats, messy notes, screenshots, or memory, Hangar gives users a dedicated space to quickly capture them and revisit them later with context. ✈️💡

At its core, Hangar works like a personal holding bay for unfinished thoughts. Users can save an idea with a title, description, priority level, tags, images, and even a voice note, making it easier to preserve not just the idea itself, but the feeling and context around it. The app stores everything locally using SQLite, so ideas remain available on the device even without a backend or internet connection.

What makes Hangar interesting is that it does not treat every idea like an urgent task. Some ideas are not ready to be built immediately. Some need time. Some need to be revisited when the user has more clarity, energy, or resources. Hangar embraces that by helping users park ideas now and intentionally return to them later through local reminders.

The current MVP includes three main screens: a home dashboard for browsing saved ideas, an add-idea flow for capturing new concepts, and a detail screen for reviewing the full context of each idea. Users can attach images, record a single voice note, assign priority, add tags, and schedule repeating reminders for saved ideas. This makes the app especially useful for developers, creators, students, founders, and anyone who constantly has ideas but needs a better system for holding onto them.

Technically, Hangar is built with Expo, React Native, React Navigation, NativeWind, Expo SQLite, Expo Image Picker, Expo AV, and Expo Notifications. It currently works as a local-first capture tool across iOS, Android, and web, with voice recording supported on mobile platforms.

The long-term potential is where the project becomes even more exciting. With features like editing, search, filtering, structured tags, smarter reminder controls, idea statuses, cloud backup, export options, audio transcription, and “idea of the day” resurfacing, Hangar could grow from a simple capture app into a personal idea incubator.