It was such an amazing opportunity to meet
@tim_cook
earlier this month ahead of
#wwdc23
and show him my
#swiftstudentchallenge
app project. I'm so gratefully for all the experiences and the people I've met during dub dub!
My upcoming app "Thoughts — Inspiration Manager" now syncs via iCloud and can run in full-screen on iPad! The version is live on Test-Flight and I've added a few more Beta slots:
Looks like there will be a developer kit for Apple Vision Pro, if I can apply I'll definitely try to get one — I'm really excited for this new platform!
My app Thoughts is featured on the App Store in 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭
It makes me so proud to see my app highlighted like that! 🥳It's been quite a journey from when I started working on it 1.5 years ago! Can't wait for whats to come :)
Early check in at
#WWDC23
today was so great! I loved meeting so many fellow developers and student challenge winners, hope to meet many more tomorrow! I’m so ready for the Special Event
Got to hold an Apple Design Award today. A block of solid metal, feels so great! I hope to win one of these one day✨Congrats to all Apple Design Awards Winners this year!
Just weeks before
#WWDC23
Apple did another press release. Looks like they have so many things to share at WWDC that they can’t fit everything in. Also notice the button, do we get an updated design language with more depth? I’d be down 🙌🏻
- macOS got much more attractive for game develops with the Game Porting Toolkit. DirectX (!) games can be ported to the Mac, I expect a lot more of great games on the Mac!
- lots of new SwiftUI APIs that allow develops to make great apps for the Mac!
Today is the Day! My app Thoughts is live on the App Store🚀 and already in the category Charts in Germany :D If you've got a minute today, I would highligh appreciate if you could leave a review for the App🙌✨
As we get ready to kick off
#WWDC23
tomorrow, I met with students from all over the world who are creating apps that turn iPhone into musical instruments and bring the experience of reading braille to iPad through haptic feedback. Excited for what's to come!
- Lock Screen now looks similar to iPadOS
- widgets are cool, don't know if I'll use that, I like to keep things clean
- new FaceTime features are amazing
“Apple’s quality in its products is resembled to full extent in Apple’s interior design.”
This is a really great article about the interior design at Apple Park and other Apple buildings by
@lucajonscher
I've been building a little something these past three days and would love some feedback from early beta testers. DM me if you'd like to try this out and help build the best quote manager.
I'm a winner of this years
#swiftstudentchallenge
! This is so amazing, there years in a row✨There were so many great submission, congrats to all the other winners🥳 And to those who weren't selected, even submitting is a great achievement and there's always next year!
I’m among the
#swiftstudentchallenge
Winners again this year 🎉 Not a distinguished winner though 🥲 Congrats to all other winners, I’ve seen so many amazing submissions this year!
I'm proud to be selected as a
#swiftstudentchallenge
winner the second time in a row! My submission was an iPad app teaching typography basics in an interactive and fun way.
Remember what inspires you✨After 10 months of development, my app "Thoughts - Inspiration Manager" is now available for PREORDER on the App Store! The public launch is next Tuesday, Oct. 3rd 🚀 Preordering and sharing would hugely support this project🙌
Last year at
#WWDC
the Vision Pro was the biggest announcement! What is it going to be this year?
AI due to market expectations? iOS 18 redesign? visionOS 2? Next-level iPadOS?
So excited!!
My app Thoughts was part of
@indieappsanta
on Dec 10th and ranked up in the charts—hitting
#3
in Reference in Germany and the top 20 category charts in the US with 16K downloads in one day!
I've started adding Collections to my upcoming app Thoughts. Collections act like inspiration sources, so for example, you would create a Collection for a book you're getting a lot of inspiration from. And collections will make creating new Entries a lot quicker, stay tuned...
On my way back home from day 2/2 spend in San Francisco - I really like it there, would probably be second place in my personal favorite cities list after Verona and before New York.
Now I’m so hyped and ready for
#WWDC23
This year, I've build a Sampler 🎵 for the
#swiftstudentchallenge
:D It allows you to create music by creatively manipulating and replaying pre-recorded sounds. I'll share a demo video of the app in a couple of days :)
Meanwhile, here's the code:
I've utilized iOS built-in text recognition to allow scanning text so that you can save the highlights of physical books you're reading in Thoughts✨
Preorder now:
I’ve just visited Stanford University, what a great place, would be worth spending a whole day - but heading to SF now. So great that I had planned two days to explore the Bay Area before I’ll be primarily around Apple Park starting tomorrow
Received the Swift Student Challenge swag from
@Apple
today. A big thank you, love the beanie! Congrats to all the other winners, next week is going to be awesome!
#SwiftStudentChallenge
#WWDC21
Just unboxed my
#WWDC23
swift student challenge swag ✨ The parcel was delivered to my parents so I had to be a little more patient :D Worth the wait, thanks
@Apple
🙌🏻
I've spotted Thoughts in the "New Apps, Features and Content" section on the App Store in Germany🥳 Not the big featuring I hoped for, but still great :D
Thoughts is now available on visionOS and offers an all-new Immersive Feed as well as the option to place Inspirations in your room. You can now enjoy your Library of Inspirations at massive scale on Apple Vision Pro.
All done!
🟢 Finish app development
🟢 App Icon design
🟢 App Store previews & text
🟢 Submit for review
I've made great progress on my Typoversity project today. Here's an example App Store preview image, I'm pretty happy how they turned out.
#buildinginpublic
This marks my final submission, 4 out of 4 from 2021-2024 (you can be a swift student challenge winner up to four times). I’ve certainly learned a lot and the
#SwiftStudentChallenge
has always been a great motivation to keep improving my skills!
I’m among the
#swiftstudentchallenge
Winners again this year 🎉 Not a distinguished winner though 🥲 Congrats to all other winners, I’ve seen so many amazing submissions this year!