# Surrly

A solo-built iOS dream journal on the App Store — designed, coded, and shipped in three months.

- Role: Builder
- Company: n/a
- Project type: Side Project
- Duration: Summer 2025
- Scope: Product strategy, UX/UI, AI-assisted engineering, iOS development, release workflow, launch
- Contributions: Built and shipped the app solo — from product idea to App Store release and a growing user base
- Live: https://www.surrly.com/
- Canonical page: https://skruglov.com/projects/surrly/

Most people lose a dream within minutes of waking up. Surrly was a summer side project: a gentle iOS journal for capturing dreams and reading them back with AI. I built it alone over three months in 2025. The app is on the App Store now, and the audience is still small, but it keeps growing.

![Surrly — dream journal home screen]()

**Video.** Screencast of capturing a dream in Surrly and reading the AI interpretation.

![Surrly — AI dream interpretation]()

> The core loop had to feel quiet, not like a productivity app. Voice or text, a few taps, done. The home screen shows recent dreams without pushing you to write more than you want.

![Surrly — journal entry flow]()

**Video.** Onboarding tour for Surrly, shown as looping Lottie animations.

> AI interpretation was the part I was unsure about. I wanted readings that felt thoughtful, not like generic horoscope copy. Each entry pulls themes and symbols from what you actually wrote, not a fixed template.

![Surrly — app experience overview]()

> I used Cursor and other AI tools heavily while building, but the release work was still mine: App Store listing, onboarding, subscriptions, crash fixes. The project was a test of whether I could take something from idea to a live app people would download.