Apps That Surprise
By Olivier Overstraete
Projects
In recent years, I have been involved in both personal projects and commissioned assignments. The personal projects encompass the full spectrum of development, from conceptualization to design and coding. Nearly all of them spring from a deep fascination with specific technologies and a strong desire to gain hands-on experience with them. In contrast, the commissioned projects involve me offering my services and putting forth my utmost effort to elevate these products to the next level.
Our projects
Complication Lab
Complication Lab gives everyone the power to create their own watch complications and widgets. Choose from 20+ data types, including heart rate and blood oxygen and style it yourself!
Carousel Pro
With Carousel Pro, you can easily make slideshows of your most loved memories. Add pictures to the Carousel and you’re ready to play them right from your Apple TV.
Radio Belgium
Listen to the best Belgian radio stations with your Apple TV.
This app includes radio MNM, Studio Brussel, Q-music, JOE fm, Radio 1, Radio 2, Klara, Ketnet Radio and Sporza.
Commissioned projects
Nowjobs
I'm involved in the Nowjobs project since 2016, providing useful product and UX guidance as well as active development services.
OpenMotics
I'm involved in the OpenMotics project since 2019, protecting the user expierence of the domotics platform.
Our discontinued projects
Paper Planes Retro
Paper Planes Retro is a retro arcade style casual game. Fly with your paper plane between the obstacles and collect coins. Challenge your friends and try to beet them to be the first on the leaderboard.
Live Screens
With LiveScreens you can bring cosiness into your living room. Listen to a crackling fireplace or relaxing waves on a beach. Or maybe you want to transform your television into a fishtank. You can do it all with our app!
Parking Knokke-Heist
Use this app to find parking spots in the town of Knokke-Heist, Belgium. This app includes information about the different parking zones and everything else you need to know.
Stamps
The coolest sticker pack for iMessage finally arrived!
Place a stamp on your friends’ message that says it all.
Complication Lab
Available Now On Your IPhone And Apple Watch
Complication Lab gives everyone the power to create their own complications and widgets.⏺ Choose from 20+ data types, including heart rate and blood oxygen.
⏺ Style it yourself
⏺ Keep track of your goals
⏺ Create your own color palette
⏺ Create a many complications and widgets as you want
⏺ You have the freedom to find the perfect combination that fits your styleOur app takes full advantage of the power of the new Apple Watch Series 7 and the latest new features of watchOS 8. We support the Apple Watch Series 4 and up.Complication Lab uses your Health and Activity data that’s available from your phone’s Health app to populate your beautifully designed complications and widgets. As privacy is at the core of our DNA, we do not collect any of this data.The app will be updated frequently with new features and Health data types.
NEW: Support For Widgets
With our second major release, we brought our customisable options our users have been loving to widgets. This release adds up to our goal to make it easier to track the Health data that matters the most to you.We support both small widgets as widgets who take advantage of your screen’s full width. Both sizes support the same broad range of Health types that we brought to our complications. We’re confident that you’ll love it.
What Differentiates Complication Lab From Others In The Same Category?
1. The customization aspect. Apple Watch is Apple’s most personal product, and we felt severely constrained by the amount of freedom we could have with our watch faces. In order to express ourselves to the fullest, we needed tools and more flexibility. Complication lab provides those tools.2. Monitoring our health at a glance at all times.3. We help you achieve a goal that’s tailored to you.
About The Developers
We’re a young team of 2 befriended developers: Louis, the youngest graduate of the Italian Apple Developer Academy and Olivier, previous WWDC scholarship winner.We are both from Flanders, the Dutch speaking part of Belgium.Fun section
Olivier started out collecting watch bands, but when that got out of hand, he needed even more customizations. To take his watch game to the next level, every aspect of the watch should have the option to be tweaked. After more than 2,5 years of development, complication lab is our collective vision of what the ultimate personalization studio should be: no compromises.
Carousel Pro
Carousel Pro, share your pictures from the big screen.With Carousel Pro, you can easily make slideshows of your most loved memories. Add pictures to the Carousel and you’re ready to play them right from your Apple TV. If wanted, it’s also possible to change your Carousel’s settings such as the transition between the images.You can also use Carousel Pro for professional purposes such as playing the Carousels in your shop’s window.
Carousel Pro also features professional settings like setting a start and end date for every picture.If you don’t have an iOS device available, it’s also possible to upload photos using our website CarouselPro.com.
Radio Belgium
Paper Planes Retro
Paper Planes Retro is a retro arcade style casual game. Fly with your paper plane between the obstacles and collect coins. The more coins you collect, the more paper planes you can buy. Challenge your friends and try to beat them to be the first on the leaderboard.
This app has been discontinued and is no longer available.
Stamps
An iMessage Sticker Pack
The coolest sticker pack for iMessage finally arrived!
Place a stamp on your friends’ message that says it all.
This app has been discontinued and is no longer available.
Live Screens
With LiveScreens you can bring cosiness into your living room. Listen to a crackling fireplace or relaxing waves on a beach. Or maybe you want to transform your television into a fishtank. You can do it all with our app.We also have several special video packs such as a “Winter pack” packed with winter and Christmas videos and a “Cities by drone pack” that flies over the most appealing cities.The latest addition to our app is the “Nature Pack” with beautiful videos from National Parks all over the world!
This app has been discontinued and is no longer available.
Parking Knokke-Heist
Use this application to find the perfect parking spot in the city of Knokke-Heist, Belgium. It shows you the different parking zones and its prices, underground parking lots and more.
This app has been discontinued and is no longer available.
About Me
So, who am I? Who's Olivier Overstraete?I am an independent mobile app technologist who embraces challenges without hesitation.My journey commenced in 2015 when I taught myself how to program in Swift, Apple's coding language. I garnered recognition and was awarded scholarships twice for Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in 2016 and 2017.
Picture with Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, at WWDC 2017
Picture with Craig Federighi, Apple’s Senior Vice President Software Engineering, at WWDC 2016.
Following my graduation, I played a crucial role in launching Nowjobs, a startup that created a mobile app simplifying staffing solutions. A company that I'm still with today.
Group picture of the Nowjobs crowd on an Oktoberfest event in 2022
In 2018, I relocated to California to undertake an internship at my beloved organization, Apple. This experience was invaluable, providing me with a wealth of technical and non-technical knowledge.After the internship, I returned to Belgium to engage in freelance work on various projects for international companies.
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