Show HN: Tiny FOSS Compass and Navigation App (<2MB)

As a FOSS maintainer myself, I recommend you to charge (a small amount of) money for the app. People could always compile and run the app themselves still, so paying for the app is a clear way to support the project. I see that you have donation on your page, but it rarely happens that people donate. Just my 2 cents.

I found MB Compass a few weeks ago and it's been very helpful for everyday things. For example, I just moved to a new apartment and I used the app to identify which room would get the best sunlight for my office. Works great!

As part of the MBCompass v2 proposal, I’m working on:

- Waypoint tracking (with GPX import/export support)

- GPS speedometer

- Offline maps with offline POI search using GeoPackage (an OGC-compliant standard supporting spatial queries)

I’d love to hear your thoughts or suggestions your feedback is really appreciated!

A feature I have been looking for:

Let me indicate a location and point an arrow at it!

Neat. If you want to make it more practically useful you will need to include some kind of magnetic compensation map. That's one of the reason navigation apps usually are a bit larger, they require a lot of data to function well world wide. Best of luck with this, it looks very promising!

Nice. Without trying it, just by looking at screenshots, I wonder how your navigation works.

Are you calculating the route or just pointing the user in the general direction?

It's incredible how small apps get when you throw away all the bullshit: useless frameworks, ads, third party libraries that require you to include a huge binary.

People are always amazed when i show them my apps are 2-5 megs, and that's because there's 2-5 megs of assets.