Attempt to build a navigation app (did not finish)
A poster tried to build a navigation app with Manus but spent a month of credits and over 8 hours without a working app.
What they did
A commenter described using Manus on their first day to build a navigation app with live maps, lane guidance, and voice directions. The agent iterated through repeated debugging and five APK builds: fixing Expo Go crashes, guiding the user through EAS CLI builds, changing how the API key was embedded, removing the live map for a static one, then trying a WebView-based live map; the user did the testing and rebuild steps.
How it went
After more than 8 hours and 8,100 credits, they still did not have a working navigation app. Search eventually worked, but navigation kept crashing, and one temporary version only showed a static map with text directions.
Worth knowing
The clearest catch was cost and time: one failed first-day attempt used an entire monthly 8,100-credit allocation and ran past 2:41 AM.
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A commenter described using Manus on their first day to build a navigation app with live maps, lane guidance, and voice directions.
The agent iterated through repeated debugging and five APK builds
A commenter described using Manus on their first day to build a navigation app with live maps, lane guidance, and voice directions.
A poster tried to build a navigation app with Manus but spent a month of credits and over 8 hours without a working app.
A commenter described using Manus on their first day to build a navigation app with live maps, lane guidance, and voice directions.
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- In registry since
- Oct 12, 2026