Back to Portfolio
Glasskartan icon

Published

iOSAndroid

Glasskartan

Sweden's ice cream map — find, review, and share the best glass spots

Download on the App StoreGet it on Google PlayWebsite

Year

2025

Status

Published

Platforms

iOS / Android

Stack

9 tools

Glasskartan

Loading preview
App landing page
Loading preview
Map of ice cream stores
Loading preview
Shop card

Project Brief

What the page is proving

A quick read before the evidence: product move, workflow, tension, proof, and stack.

01Product move

Sweden's ice cream map — find, review, and share the best glass spots

02Core workflow

Interactive map with 338+ ice cream spots across Sweden

03Design tension

Manually vetting 1000+ user-submitted ice cream spot suggestions for accuracy and quality

04Proof path

Featured in Macworld Sweden, Kristianstadsbladet, and Sveriges Radio P4 with 5 visual captures.

05Technical shape

React Native / Expo / TypeScript / MapKit / Mapbox

338+
Ice Cream Spots
Top 10
Food & Drink, iOS 2025
15000+
Downloads
3
Media Features

Case Study

From brief to ship

A sharper read on what mattered, what got built, and why it moved the product forward.

01Context

The product promise

Glasskartan started as a simple idea: make it easy to find great ice cream anywhere in Sweden. It grew into a full community-driven platform where users share photos, rate shops, and leave reviews — while business owners manage their own listings with real-time opening hours, flavor menus, and push notifications. The app reached Top 10 in Food & Drink on the iOS App Store in its first summer.

Glasskartan is a crowd-sourced ice cream map app for Sweden. Users discover ice cream shops, gelaterias, and kiosks nearby — browsing flavors, toppings, opening hours, user photos, and reviews. Business owners can register for free to manage their presence, send push notifications, and reach new customers directly through the platform.

02Interaction

What the experience has to do well

01

Interactive map with 338+ ice cream spots across Sweden

02

User photo sharing, ratings, and written reviews

03

Detailed shop pages with flavors, toppings, opening hours, and contact info

04

Favorites list to save and revisit top spots

05

Business dashboard for owners to manage listings and send notifications

06

Community-driven data — 4600+ ice cream occasions logged by users

03Execution

The hard parts worth solving

01

Manually vetting 1000+ user-submitted ice cream spot suggestions for accuracy and quality

02

Building automated content review pipelines for user-uploaded photos using LLMs

03

Scraping and cross-referencing data sources to verify business details like opening hours and menus

04

Scaling from a personal side project to a nationwide platform in a single summer

04Outcome

What shipped better

01

Featured in Macworld Sweden, Kristianstadsbladet, and Sveriges Radio P4

02

Reached Top 10 in Food & Drink on the iOS App Store within weeks of launch

03

Grew to 338+ verified ice cream spots covering Sweden from Smygehuk to Haparanda

04

Built an engaged community contributing 1000+ location suggestions and 4600+ ice cream occasions

Product Tour

Screens that sell the work

01 / 04

Timeline

The build thread

Milestones read as product decisions, not diary entries: where the work started, what changed, and where it landed.

  1. 01Midsommar 2025

    App launch on iOS

  2. 02Jun 30, 2025

    Reached Top 10 in Food & Drink on iOS App Store

  3. 03Jul 8, 2025

    Featured in Macworld Sweden

  4. 04Aug 14, 2025

    Featured in Kristianstadsbladet

  5. 05Aug 23, 2025

    Featured on Sveriges Radio P4

  6. 06Spring 2026

    Glasskartan 2.0

Next Stop

Try the project

Download on the App StoreGet it on Google PlayWebsite