The Winning Widget of St. Jude/Relay FM Fundraiser Monitoring
A few weeks ago I shared my custom Pyto widget that automatically pulls from Relay FM's Tiltify page for their annual St. Jude Children's Research Hospital fundraiser, and shortly after that I shared Zach Knox's iterative improvement on the same concept. Well, now we've both been completely eclipsed by a lovely group of developers from the Relay FM members Discord, who quickly created a bespoke iOS app with native, customizable widgets all entirely dedicated to monitoring the fundraiser's progress. You can join the app's TestFlight beta to add its delightful widgets to your home screen. The app supports widgets of all sizes, displaying the total fundraiser goal as well as milestone progress, and even has notification support when reaching a milestone, "significant amounts" (like $250,000), or a custom dollar amount of your choosing.
The team behind this app has far outstripped what Zach and I cobbled together with mediocre scripts and middling widget design, and you should all go give the app a try if you want to keep an eye on the Relay FM community's donation progress. Oh, and you should go donate right now to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital — they do phenomenal, lifesaving work in kiddos with cancer all at no cost to their families. What better cause is there to give your money to? If you are reading this blog post, there's a good chance you are about to buy an expensive Apple product next week — figure out the sales tax on that purchase and go donate it to St. Jude.