AWEROK Is Live: The Oshkosh App I Always Wanted to Build
It's here. AWEROK is now available on iOS and Android. If you're flying into Oshkosh this July, it was built for you.
This is the post I've been waiting months to write. AWEROK is a modern companion app for the world's biggest fly-in: the full event schedule, a live map of the grounds, shared planning with your crew, and a home base that ties your whole week together. Free to download on both app stores today.
But the honest origin story starts somewhere else.
Why I built it
AWEROK is my blog and my brand, and I wanted an app to go with it. Not a brochure in app form, but something people would actually open, something with a feature good enough to pull them in on its own. A brand is only as strong as the reason people have to engage with it, and I wanted to give people a real one.
I already knew what that feature should be. Oshkosh scheduling has been a problem I've been turning over in my head for years. Every trip, the same friction: hundreds of events, a clunky way to sort through them, and the nagging sense that I was missing sessions I would have loved if I had only known they existed. I had quietly designed and redesigned the fix in my head more times than I can count.
And yes, the state of the apps we are handed did not help. Bad apps drive me up the wall, the supposedly professional ones that still fight you at every tap. I've long said I could build something better. AWEROK was finally the reason.
What AWEROK does
Home is where you land when you open the app. A live countdown to opening day, your upcoming saved events and schedule one tap away, the latest posts, and a quick path to follow along and grab merch from the AWEROK Hangar. It is the dashboard you will check every morning of the show.
The Schedule puts every event in one place. Filter by day, type, interest, and source, search for anything, and bookmark the sessions you do not want to miss. Hundreds of forums, sessions, and workshops are finally easy to navigate.
The schedule feature I am excited about is On My Radar. A plain list of events is the easy part. The real challenge at Oshkosh is not finding an event, it is not missing the one that was perfect for you. On My Radar reads what each session is actually about, its title, description, and speakers, and surfaces the ones genuinely similar to the events you already care about. Not keyword matching, real relevance, so it catches the forum you would never have thought to search for.
During the show, AWEROK switches to live mode. Home puts a Happening Now button right up front, and the same view lives in the Schedule, surfacing the events kicking off in the next two to four hours so you always know what is starting soon. Sort it by distance, and it puts the closest events first, which is exactly what you want when a session lets out, you have a free hour, and you want to find something good near where you are standing.
The Live Map keeps you oriented. The grounds are big, and it is easy to lose track of where you are. The map shows forums, food vendors, exhibitors, and other points of interest, with your own location updating in real time. Less wandering, more time at the things you came for.
With Friends is for the people you go with. Build shared event lists, see who is going to what, and plan the week as a group instead of a dozen separate text threads. Oshkosh is better with your crew, and this keeps everyone on the same page from arrivals to the last forum of the day.
How it came together
Here is the part I am most excited to talk about.
The first line of code was committed on February 20. I have a demanding day job, so every bit of AWEROK was built on nights and weekends since then. A full, polished, cross-platform app in that window, as a side effort, would not have been possible for me a couple of years ago.
What changed is how I write code. I had been watching AI reshape my own development work, and I believed it was a bigger shift than most people were treating it as. But believing it and proving it are different things. AWEROK gave me a real project, with real scope and real stakes, to push on that belief and find out how far it actually goes.
What I found held up. For my entire career, there has been a hard ceiling on what one person can ship, simply because there are only so many lines of code I can personally write. That ceiling has not disappeared, but it has moved dramatically. I built AWEROK with Claude Code, and I cannot say enough good things about it. It lets me amplify and multiply myself, and it has me building with the energy I had early in my career.
I will be sharing a lot more about how AWEROK came together in the coming weeks: the architecture, the choices, what worked, and what I would do differently. If you are a builder sitting on a someday idea, the ceiling has moved further than you think.
More than one week
I built AWEROK for Oshkosh, but also for shows. Under the hood, it is designed to support other aviation events too. Hence, the Schedule, the map, the planning, and On My Radar are not a one-off for a single week in July. Oshkosh is where AWEROK starts, not where it stops.
That is the point of doing this under the AWEROK name. The blog, the brand, and now the app are one and the same, and the app is built to grow with them. This launch is the first event, not the last.
Get AWEROK
Download it free on iOS and Android at awerok.com/app. Build your Schedule, map your week, and bring your crew along.
See you at Oshkosh. Let's go flying.
