Crafting apps in public
🏁
@GPCalendarApp
($942): Formula1 on mac
🏀 AlleyOop: NBA live on mac
⚽ CupBar: Euro2024 on mac
ex 5y Android engineer
@spotwallet
@ZeratoRSC2
Il est possible de tips les créateur de contenu(blog, youtubeur, Twitter...) avec leur crytomonnaie (BAT) pour tester un nouveau genre d'internet model ne se basant plus sur les pubs. Tu peux allouer un montant par mois en fonction du temps passé sur des sites indés c'est top 👌
I shipped my MVP without
- Analytics 📊
- Crash report ❌
- In-app auto-update ♻️
- In-app support 💬
- Languages translation 🌍
...but still get 300$ in the first week ✅
so, just SHIP 🚀
#buildinpublic
🚀 Today, I'm launching my very first app as indie developer.
A macOS menuBar app for
#Formula1
Calendar:
🏁 Races times
⏱ Practices & Qualifying times
Easily accessible from your desktop.
🔥 (FREE for the next 48hours)
👉
#buildinpublic
#FrenchGP
I'm no longer employed.
After 5 amazing years as the Android engineer
@spotwallet
, my very first job, it's now time for new adventures in 2024 🚀
I might try to go full indie
unless I find an amazing mobile app startup to (remotely) work with 😊
I have to say,
@lmsqueezy
new product form is near perfection 👏 Much more precise.
The only thing I miss from Gumroad is the Purchasing Power Parity toggle.
#buildinpublic
@tibo_maker
I took inspiration from Flappy Bird for my very very first android project (10 years ago 🫠) at university!
Based on phone sensors
(don't judge the graphic please 😆)
Introducing Cup Bar ⚽
(After 7 days In Review with Apple...)
Don't miss any Euro2024 matches (left) with my free mac menu bar app:
Calendar and results one click away 📆
Mac Notifications 🔔
Mac Widgets 🖥️
Local times ⏰
Support every World Cup and
@letriplesept
Dans un hôtel 5 étoiles de ma ville (sans piston, en mode yolo), j'ai eu 50 balles de pourboire d'un russe pour avoir mis ses valises dans le coffre de sa berline mdr
🔥 I'm building in public a new little mac app in the next 24h
💡Idea: a simple reminder (notification) based on user input like "Football match in 4 hours".
⏳ I will report every hour my progress on this thread
Follow to stay up-to-date! 👇
#buildinpublic
iOS devs with a Lifetime option in your app:
is it a "Non-Renewing Subscription"
or "in-app purchase" type?
Apple reviewer just rejected my lifetime offer😅
#iosdev
#buildinpublic
When you finally go to bed after hours not quitting fixing this nasty bug
then you wake up and solve it in 5 mins with another approach.
#buildinpublic
🔥 MVP is done (48 hours late)
Basic features I wanted:
🔔Set notification reminders by natural language like this:
🗣️ "in X secs/mins/hours"
🗣️ "next Monday at 6pm"
🗣️ "Today at 14h"
...
🗑️Cancel scheduled notif/reminders
💾 Save reminders upon restart
#buildinpublic
🔥 I'm building in public a new little mac app in the next 24h
💡Idea: a simple reminder (notification) based on user input like "Football match in 4 hours".
⏳ I will report every hour my progress on this thread
Follow to stay up-to-date! 👇
#buildinpublic
Sunday is for hiking with the dog 🐶 🌳
Now back to work on
@NotifyMate
.
I should have submit it to App Store since weeks. Was afraid to ship
#buildinpublic
finally entering the
@RevenueCat
#ShipATon
⌛
Better late than never (ending September 19th)
I had many ideas on my list but this one just popped up yesterday when trying my new bike 🚴
Perfect challenge for me who struggles to ship MVP😅
An app to globally track where you
I was feeling less motivated these days
but I just saw all the amazing testimonials on the Reddit post again
motivation over 9000 now 🔥
few examples 🤩👇
#buildinpublic
24h after GP Calendar launch:
👀 1k3+ views of landing page
🥳 312 downloads (including free ones)
✨ 22% conversion
🙌 $94 in sales (people who truly wanted to pay for it!)
❤️ So many feedback and love from F1 fans
#buildinpublic
#openstartup
#F1
Just exceed my goal of the month 🥳
It marks my best month since starting indie 🙂
very happy as I doubted I could not make it!
(with my little niche mac app )
#buildinpublic
🚨 Big update for
@GPCalendarApp
:
🥇 Driver standings
🥇 Constructor standings
♻️ Auto-update for future updates (after this one!)
Please download the new update from your Gumroad library (DM me if needed)
#F1
This is how I force myself to ship fast tiny updates instead of a big one.
📆 Schedule updates with:
- 1 new feature max
- 1 (re)design thing max
- 1 or 2 bugs fixes
and you?
#buildinpublic
Just some different scenarios you can see in my upcoming
#NBA
app:
- ongoing game live score
- half time
- finished game (blurred score to not spoil if you want)
wdyt?
#buildinpublic
I had an acquisition offer 💸
It was after only few days I launched
@GPCalendarApp
last July, someone wanted to buy it.
Offered me at first a very low amount and final offer was $2000 💰
Still did not want to sell my app♥️
#buildinpublic
Ok I might mute ‘GPT4’ word at this point.
Not because it’s not that impressive.
Because too much anxiety for not diving into this AI rabbit hole as indie maker.
Keep focusing on my little silly apps 😅
🤯 wow, blows my mind.
So yesterday, I posted a sketchy screenshot of my app in relevant subreddits just for the experiment.
🔥 100k+ views
❤️ 100+ comments & feedback (& love!)
I guess that's a good idea validation.
Makers, do not underestimate reddit.
@marc_louvion
+ on iOS you will probably be amazed how people are used to buy in-app purchases for everything.
(way more than Android)
This is IMO a big move for you startup to now have this distribution channel as well
🏁 Formula 1 is back on Saturday!
I will hard work on
@GPCalendarApp
every day until lights out 🚥
Day 1:
→ Create my own API as backup
→ Notifications when races start
→ Release update on gumroad for 2024 calendar
#buildinpublic
🙏 I'have been accepted to attend as developer
@hackJunction
2018 in Helsinki, biggest hackathon in Europe! First time for me there i'm so hyped! 🤓
Thanks guys and see you in Finland 🙃
#Junction2018
It's 'Ready for sale' for 48hours+ now.
Can see it on Top Chart "Sports" (ranked
#19
) and with a permanent link.
I guess the indexation in "Search" takes longer!
#buildinpublic
#macos
It’s been In Review since 3am.. it’s 7pm CET.
Should I be worried? 😅
What are they doing with my app
(Been rejected 6 times in a row, I have good faith on this one! 🤞)
#macdev
#buildinpublic
38 hours straight of coding and 2 hours of sleep (that photo was taken after the first sleepless night 😅) deadline is here at
#Junction2018
. We are competing in the
#HackTheSauna
challenge from
@VaisalaSuomi
. Exhausted af but for my 1st time at
@hackJunction
it was awesome 👌
🥳 The app is officially profitable after 48h (even with full free access available!)
💸 104$ revenue
🍏-99$ Apple Developer Program cost
= Profit of 5$ 🚀🚀🤘
I used to go daily on Product Hunt back in 2018 while student.
It inspired me so much.
Sad it’s turning into this bs. And Nico did not even talk about bots in PH killing the competition.
Maybe
@UneedLists
from
@T_Zahil
is a good option? At least he’s trying something else.
Fuck you
@ProductHunt
💩🖕
I will probably get banned from there because of this post, but fuck it, it's time to stop lying to your users
First,
@iamjasonlevin
showed how it was on the inside (imagine the CTO not knowing the
#1
person in the audience. Still not sure if it was
🤯 THIS is the true game changer for non-designer indie maker.
Midjourney generating your app icon
"detailed iOS icon of a cartoony FIFA world cup trophy --v 4
Which one do you prefer?
#buildinpublic
#midjourney
Indie business - July Report
x12 revenue 🤯
Ok it was ‘easy’ though…
0€ May
5€ June
60€ July (+1200% 🔥)
not sure it’s gonna x12 again in August 😅
#buildinpublic
@CryptoRusk0f
@phantom
Hello RuskOf,
dans ma petite startup 🇫🇷 chez
@spotwallet
, on est aussi multi-chain, super facile à utiliser (d'après nos users!) et on offre des features liées au NFT assez poussées 🥰
Le tout en natif sur mobile (+ extension chrome si besoin!)
Ouvert aux feedback 🤝
Something I want to improve in 2023:
🫱 Helping more devs on StackOverflow.
After 6+ years as Android developer,
I'm starting to feel confident enough to be helpful on some very specific topics I encountered.
👋 As everyone is enjoying this new
#MiamiGP
I want to launch a little side project in a weekend only.
📆 A macOS menu bar for
#Formula1
calendar in SwiftUi
👇 I will keep track of my progress here and
#buildInPublic
if anyone interested (forcing me to ship it in 48h 😅)