Two apps that have been on the workbench for a while are now far enough along to talk about. They have nothing in common except that both exist because a number somebody else controls is annoying.
Fuel Meter
Fuel prices in North Macedonia are regulated. The Energy Regulatory Commission sets one maximum retail price per fuel for the entire country, every Monday, in force from 00:01 the next day. It is published as a decision. Everybody eventually finds out the number.
What nobody publishes is what the number is made of. A litre of BS-95 is a stack: purchase cost, excise duty, VAT, the retailer's margin, transport, and levies. Those components are knowable and they are the interesting part — they are why the price moved, and who it moved for. Fuel Meter reads the decision the moment it goes up and breaks the price open.
Around that: every filling station in the country on a map, a tank and trip calculator, and a full year of price history, so you can see whether this week is unusual or just Tuesday.
It will be released under its local name, Гориво Метар, in Macedonian and English, for North Macedonia only. The prices are national and set by Macedonian regulation, so there is genuinely nothing for the app to show anywhere else. Other markets may follow under the Fuel Meter name if we can find the same quality of source data.
Clear Roam
The other one is the roaming bill. You land, your phone attaches to whatever network shakes its hand first, and two weeks later a number arrives that bears no relationship to the data you actually used.
Clear Roam is a data eSIM app: pick a country or a regional plan, install it with one tap, and land connected. No physical SIM, no contract, no bill arriving after the holiday is over. The catalogue in the current build covers 197 countries across 233 destinations, and there is a regional tier for trips that do not respect borders.
The constraint we set ourselves is that you should see the total before you pay, and see what you have left while you are travelling. That sounds like the minimum. It is not what the incumbent experience does.
Timelines, honestly
Fuel Meter is close — the web version is essentially done and the Android build is not far behind. Clear Roam is further out; the app runs today but the commercial side is not finished, and we are not shipping an eSIM store that cannot guarantee the plan you bought.
Neither gets a date from us until it has a build we would put on our own phones.