Five years ago, today, a TikTok video changed my life.

While Widgetsmith launched on Sep 16, 2020, it wasn't until the 18th when it had its viral moment on TikTok and meteoric rise to the top of the App Store.

I wanted to observe the occasion with a little retrospective of my memories from that day and the journey to it.

Little did I know then that my professional life would become helping millions of people make their home screens “Aesthetic AF”.

(131M so far[!])

https://david-smith.org/blog/2025/09/18/widgetsmith-at-five/