Kris Slazinski ☮️
@KSlazinski
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👨🏻💻 UX Designer / iOS developer📱Creator of @moons_app @numi_app @skoro_app @emo_app_ @wins_app_ 🎸 @ZeroMusicArt @Quadroom 🎨 MA in art 🌱 Vegan
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📊 May update on my App Business:
• $250 Proceeds in 1 month.
🥳 New record! And this time with no ads.
• 41 subscriptions of my apps.
My goal is 1000 by the end of September. Who believes I can do it? 😅
Link to my apps:
👉
#buildinpublic
#indieDev
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👋 Hey, iOS developers.
In case someone doesn’t know about this…
You can add “App Uses Non-Exempt Encryption” to your Info.plist. After this App Store Connect will stop asking you if your app is using cryptography, every time you upload new build to TestFlight 🙂
#iOSdev
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Stats from first day of my iOS app on App Store.
Sold to 5 people (only 20% of this is my wife 😆).
0 crashes 🥳
Proceeds: 4$.
Now you may think: “4$? That’s not a lot”. But it’s my first money as an iOS developer. It’s one small step for mankind, but one giant leap for me 🧑🚀😅
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If you rely on system colors, when you design or develop your iOS app, it is worth remembering that UIKit and SwiftUI colors are very different from each other.
UIKit colors are much more saturated. Please compare on the screenshot.
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🥳 Finally! It took me 21 weeks! 😅 But my first iOS app
@SkoresApp
has finally paid for my yearly Apple Developer account! 🥳
And I have first 2 cents I can keep for myself 😅
📱Link to the app:
#iOSdev
#indieDev
#success
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😅As iOS apps are still not a sustainable business, I need to remind myself about the progress. My 3rd month was $8.14. Now I started October with $10.80 in 1 day.
Also, I’m still not a millionaire. But since I crossed $1K how can I call myself? Thousandaire? 🙃
#buildinpublic
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🚀 I finally reached my goal! 🥳
My iOS apps generated $1000 of Proceeds (that’s after Apple’s share).
I needed:
📆 1 and a half year
📱 4 apps
💚 Your support
Thank you!
🔗 Link to my apps:
🤔 What should I do next?
#buildinpublic
#indieDev
#iOSdev
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After around 12 weeks since the release, my iOS app
@SkoresApp
made me $50.
I’m half way to my first goal of $100 from iOS development.
As a reminder - yearly Apple Developer fee is $99. So this would be actually $1 profit for me.
#indieDev
#buildinpublic
#buildinginpublic
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💻 PRO TIP 🌟
If you want to localize your iOS or macOS apps, there is a very cool website where you can check translations of many labels and text strings from Apple’s own apps and OSes:
#iOSdev
#indieDev
#buildinpublic
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It took me around 13 months to get first $500 from the App Store 🙂 For some it may be slow. For some it’s fast. But we all deal with different things in life, so I’m just proud of myself.
📱My apps:
#iOSdev
#indieDev
#buildinpublic
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I wonder how many of you indie iOS developers know that Apple gives you $100 for Search Ads to promote your apps 🤔 I didn’t know this until recently.
#iOSdev
#indiedev
#marketing
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📊Monthly App Store stats. $731 in total from my apps.
Moving up, but not every month is a new record. And that’s fine. I am enjoying the journey and I really love
#iOSdev
so far ☺️
📱My apps:
#buildinpublic
#indieDev
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👋 Hey, iOS developers, UI and UX designers.
In SwiftUI you can use SVG images instead of PNG images with 1x, 2x, 3x scales.
Just set Individual Scales. And turn on Preserve Vector Data. Please compare the same scaled image without and with this option. And the needed settings.
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🚀 Moons: Time Tracker 🌝
My new app is now available on the App Store! 🥳
Download now:
📲
🤩 50% off on all plans in the first week!
Your support means the world to me. Please spread the word and share this post! 🥹
#BuildInPublic
#iOSdev
#IndieDev
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Seriously… This single thing is the worst part of iOS development! 🤪
You can debate with me. I won’t change my mind.
Apple, please let us disable this thing. My app is not an Apple Watch app. Why do I need to see this so often? Why it takes so much time? Why why why?
#iOSdev
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🥳 I did it, folks! I finally released my 4th iOS app.
To check it out for free, just head here:
To celebrate 1st release, Wins+ is available today for only $0.99 😱🤩
#indieDev
#iOSdev
#goals
#wins
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Over 3 years ago I’ve started to learn SwiftUI by making my own apps. For over 3 years I am working on the app that I will release in the next few days
It was fun. It was not easy. Sweat and tears. Many times I wanted to quit. But it’s almost ready now. Few days left.
#indieDev
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What are your
#goals
for 2023?
Some of my goals:
• Release my 4th iOS app
• Get first $1000 from my apps
#indieDev
#buildinpublic
#iOSdev
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👋 Hey, iOS developers. Did you know that you can use a tool like free DB Browser for SQLite to see the data from Core Data from your device or simulator? Super useful when you work with Core Data
Here’s an example screenshot with my
@SkoresApp
database:
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My first ever Pull Request on GitHub has just been merged to main branch 🤓🧑🏻💻
I can go to sleep now ☺️
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Someone said that men with abs are hot. I misheard and… I made more apps 🫤
So here it is! Meet Numi, my new top secret iOS app 🥳
📱
#RT
#PleaseRT
#indieDev
#iOSdev
#indieHacker
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🚀 Today’s inspiration:
Paul Hudson
@twostraws
Living iOS legend. Blogger, author of many Swift books & Swiftly Speaking podcast. Creator of Unwrap app (like a Duolingo for Swift). I wish Apple’s docs were more like his blog. Thanks for everything, Paul!
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😱🤯 I just made… half million dollars on my apps?! What?! 😅
Yearly subscription of my app Wins is $5.99. Someone just bought it and Apple shows me I made $506K! 🥳
🚀Link to Wins:
#buildinpublic
#indieDev
#success
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👋🙂 Hey, folks.
I just published a new article on my blog. Maybe someone will find it useful.
UI resources for iOS developers and designers
#iOSdev
#buildinpublic
#uiux
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If you are a Junior or Aspiring iOS Developer and wonder if you should learn SwiftUI - Apple said very clearly that this is the future.
Source:
It can take time. And many IUKit apps will not go away soon. But the future is clear - SwiftUI.
#WWDC22
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💦 Drink more water, folks. I’m currently at hospital with kidney stones. Don’t worry, I’m feeling better after painkillers. But a friendly reminder - drink more water 💦😉
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👋 Hey, indie
#iOSdev
folks!
You should definitely try to contact users who left a 1⭐️ review of your app and try to convert it to 5⭐️ (which I did few times).
But one time the review was simply not true. And I reported this to Apple and they removed it.
#buildinpublic
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🥳 My 2nd iOS app got accepted! 😃
Folks, meet Emo ☺️
Emo is a simple app to help you keep track of your emotions and improve your
#wellbeing
It’s very affordable. There are no ads and no hidden payments.
📱Link to the app:
#indiedev
#RT
#PleaseRT
🥳 Emo app is now on the App Store!
You can now track your emotions easily to better understand yourself and improve your
#wellbeing
📱Link to the app:
#indieApp
#RT
#PleaseRT
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🥳 In the last week 3 more people bought my iOS app
@SkoresApp
The same time, only 1 person bought Twitter.
I have prepared some charts to visualize how big deal this is 📊🤓
Please check out my app on the App Store:
#indiedev
#marketing
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🤪 Dear Sir App Store Connect,
Is it really necessary to log me out every 5 minutes? Even during screenshots upload?
Sincerely,
iOS developer
#iOSdev
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😱 New iOS app coming soon!
That is... if Apple accepts it 😅
Please keep your fingers crossed 🤞
#indieDev
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📊 $64.53 from my iOS apps in January. Not as great as $108 in December, but still much better that previous months.
All my 3 apps are Paid. My next app will be Free+IAP to test different business model. Planned release: February.
#buildinpublic
#indieDev
#indieHacker
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🥳 I did it!
+ My total Proceeds from the App Store: $201 in 8 months
+ October was my best month so far with $37.90
- I needed 2 apps to reach these goals:
@skores_app
@emo_app_
- My growth is still quite slow
Next goal: $50 in 1 month 😱
#indieHacker
#buildinpublic
#iOSdev
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🚀 I’m getting closer to reach 2 of my goals for this year:
💻📱$1K from my apps
👥🐦 5K followers on Twitter
What will happen first? 😱
Tracked with
@wins_app_
#wins
#goals
#GoalSetting
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Shoutout to Apple’s team who made Memoji animations on Log In Screen on macOS.
My 2-years-old niece loves it. Her favorite part is when “baby is hiding”. We’ve waited for this 10-15 minutes… 3 times! 😅 Every time we had so much fun and laugh 😆
🌞 Happy Sunday, everyone!
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I just published my new article:
“How to migrate NSPersistentCloudKitContainer to App Groups”
#iOSdev
#buildinpublic
#indieDev
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🥳 I just reached my first milestone: 10 active subscriptions. I have 5 iOS apps on the App Store, but only Moons has subscriptions:
Now why didn’t I add subscriptions to all of my apps day 1? 😭😅
#indieDev
#buildinpublic
#startup
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Aaand… I crossed $5 Daily Average Proceeds with my 3 iOS apps 🥳
Does it have a name? DNRR? Daily Non Recurring Revenue? 🙃
📱App Store:
#buildinpublic
#indieDev
#indieHacker
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🚀 My next goal 🚀
1000 subscriptions of my apps by the end of SEP this year.
Just starting. 18 subs currently. I will be sharing my progress and steps I took to get there.
Wish me luck 🍀🙂 Ask me anything
📱My apps:
#indieDev
#buildinpublic
#startup
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1 More Day is… NOT the name of my new iOS app 🙃
It’s simply 1 more day until I will reveal the name.
I’ve been working on this app for more than 3 years and I really can’t wait for tomorrow 🥳
#buildExcitementInPublic
#iOSdev
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📊My monthly App Store charts
🥳I hit new record in August:
$129 from my iOS apps in 1 month
Starting next month, I will be sharing stats with my Search Ads expenses as I will use all of my free $100 credit very soon
📱My apps:
#buildinpublic
#indieDev
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🥳 New record! $114 Proceeds from my apps in 1 month
👍 There is clearly some growth here
👎 It’s still slow and $114 a month is still not huge money
TO DO:
- Update current apps
- Improve ASO
- Finish 5th app
My apps:
#indieDev
#buildinpublic
#iOSdev
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When you think that your downloads are going up…
But it ends up as a middle finger 😅
#iOSdev
#indieDev
#buildinpublic
#jokeinpublic
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One of my dreams is to meet my
#iOSdev
friends from around the world in real life.
Today I had a pleasure to meet
@rudrankriyam
in Bangkok, Thailand. It was great to talk to you, Rudrank and I can’t wait for another meeting 😀
And we met Pikachu! 🙃
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📊My App Store stats. $67.80 in March. $551 in total.
My 4th iOS app is almost finished and should be released in April 😊 This will be my first Free+IAP app, so I will be testing new business model soon 🤓
My apps:
#iOSdev
#buildinpublic
#indieDev
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😱 Wow! I have +500 followers 😱 Thank you very much for all your support. I will continue to share my journey of designing and building iOS apps.
❤️ Have a great weekend, everyone!
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💻 In SwiftUI there is a very easy way of changing submit button on iOS keyboard from gray “return” to blue “done”. Just add this line to TextField:
.submitLabel(.done)
There are few other options to choose from. Easy way of improving UX of input fields in your app 🙂
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App Store Connect app is really unusable last few days. Super slow. Trends tab is often not visible. If it is, not all stats are displayed.
I really wish that
@apple
will improve this app soon 😕
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🥳 New milestone. More than 100 paying customers. Thank you to everyone who bought my
@SkoresApp
☺️
I’m also getting closer to my first $100 earned as iOS developer 😁
📱Link to the app:
#indieDev
#iOSapp
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It was a long and amazing year.
• I finally met with my parents after 2 years.
• My band
@Quadroom
released first single.
• I’ve released my first 3 iOS apps
@skores_app
@emo_app_
@numi_app
• I’ve made many new friends. Truly amazing people 💙💙💙
I can’t wait for 2023 🥳
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It was a good day yesterday for my Twitter growth 😀
Magic of
#buildinpublic
✨
Lately I tweeted about my latest article and my financial results from selling my iOS apps.
📱More
#iOSdev
articles coming soon!
#indieDev
#Growth
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Everyone tells me I should make my app Freemium. But so far I’m persistent and want to keep going with Paid app.
And I’m getting closer to have my first 100 paying customers 😃
I’m also looking forward to have my first $100 as an iOS dev. After I’ve spent $99 on dev account 😅
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🥳 Finally it’s here! My 2nd article about iOS development. I will be very grateful for any comments.
"Outlined TabItem icons in iOS"
via
@hashnode
#iOSdev
#ux
#buildinpublic
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😅 Last 2 weeks were not easy. I tried a few things and it didn’t work well. I was a bit down.
But my apps just generated $54 in the last 24h. Can I have more days like this, please? 🙏
It’s a small, but a win that I really needed.
#indieDev
#buildinpublic
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Sometimes we do something later than planned. It’s OK.
🎓I’ve finished high school 1 year late. I’ve graduated from university half year late.
🎸It took my band 20 years to record our first single.
📱I’ve released my first iOS app at 39.
Don’t worry. Just keep going 😊
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🥳 My app
@emo_app_
is 1 week old. Here are my App Store stats. 23 units sold. $18 Proceeds.
Most (or all?)
#indieHackers
know this chart. Starts great and drops in the next few days. This week I will show you how to get more sales later with
#ASO
Stay tuned! 🙂
#buildinpublic
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I had a busy January, so I am a little late to the party... But here is my summary of my indie app business in 2023 after exactly 2 years on the App Store
Feel free to ask if you have any questions.
#buildinpublic
#iOSdev
#indiedev
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👋 Hey, indie iOS developers.
Friendly reminder that on the App Store you only add keywords in 3 places:
- App name
- Subtitle
- Keywords list
App description is only for people, not for the search engine. App Store will not extract keywords from there.
#ASO
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📊My weekly App Store stats.
19-25 December 2022.
• 47 sold units
• $75 in 1 week 🥳
It’s my best week ever on the App Store 🤩 It’s mostly thanks to
@numi_app
which is responsible for most proceeds.
📱
#indieDev
#indieHacker
#buildinpublic
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Social media is full of success stories. But I’m here to tell you that app business has its ups and downs. I didn’t sell anything in the last 24 hours.
If this happens to you, it’s normal. Not every day is a win. And we need to keep going despite it 💪
#buildinpublic
#indieDev
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😀 That’s a great start of 2024 for my app business!
I earned $34 in just one day, on January 1st. While $34 may not seem like a huge amount, let's compare it to January 2023 when I made $64 in the entire month.
📱My apps:
#indieDev
#buildinpublic
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Today I’ve added swipe to delete action on ListView in my
@emo_app_
Adding alert with confirmation improves
#UX
To make it work good in SwiftUI, you need to use:
- .swipeActions, not .onDelete
- .tint(.red), not .destructive
- withAnimation around delete
#iOSdev
#buildinpublic
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📊My November App Store stats. New best month 🥳
My apps generated $215 Proceeds last month. New business model of my 5th iOS app Moons looks promising.
Feel free to ask me questions 🙂
📱My apps:
#indieDev
#buildinpublic
#indiehackers
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📊My monthly results are in. In February I made $151 on my iOS apps.
Less than in January. More than in February 2023. So this time I will let all you optimists and pessimists decide if it’s good or bad 😅
My apps:
#indieDev
#buildinpublic
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📱Summary of my 1st year on the App Store.
My proceeds were growing slowly each month and I was hoping to make $50 in December. But it didn’t happen😔
I made $108 instead 🥳, $342 in total in 2022. Thank you to everyone who helped me!🙏
Ask me anything🙂
#indieDev
#indieHacker
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🥳 I just got 578 PLN from Apple for my apps
@skores_app
and
@emo_app_
That’s around $127.
3rd time I’m getting money as an iOS developer.
I know it’s not much. But it’s getting better. And I am proud of myself, because this took a lot of work this year ☺️
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📊My App Store Proceeds look better after
@numi_app
release. Even though
@skores_app
is still my best seller. And
@emo_app_
adds few $
My Daily Average is up to $4.80 in the last week. Still far from sustainable business. But I am happy about this small win 😃
#indiedev
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In SwiftUI you can use a combination of Text view, VStack and HStack to… wish everyone a happy time with their families and friends 🐇🥚❤️
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😱🐍Honestly, maybe I will never feel truly comfortable in Thailand.
We just had a snake… at home… on the wall… behind our wedding photo 😱🤯😵💫
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I work part-time as UX Designer. I also make my own iOS apps.
@skores_app
and
@emo_app_
so far. And I love that!
But honestly, lately I am struggling with burnout. I didn’t run out of ideas. But did run out of energy. It’s time to rest and recharge. 2 nights on this island now.
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🥳 I finally added iOS widgets to
@wins_app_
Something that was requested few weeks ago.
The biggest struggle was database migration to the App Groups. I’m thinking about writing an article about this as it’s not a very well documented topic.
#iOSdev
#BuildInPublic
#indiedev
🚀 With Wins 1.5 you can now use iOS widgets to improve your motivation and maximize your chances for achieving your life goals.
Link to the app:
#wins
#goals
#productivity
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I just learned that we don’t need to switch run destination to “Any iOS Device” anymore when we Archive our iOS apps in Xcode 🥳
You can learn more about the “Simplified app distribution” from this WWDC video:
#iOSdev
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🥳 It’s published!
My first interview as an iOS developer and indie maker! 🤩
I am really grateful and honored that my friend Khoa
@onmyway133
invited me and gave me an opportunity to share my story 😀
#indiehackers
#indieDev
#iOSdev
#buildinpublic
3, 2, 1 then we start 🎉
Welcome to the first interview in the Indie Interview series
Today I'm happy to get you to know more about
@KSlazinski
, how he went from painting, screenwriting to indie app development and music band 🎸
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👋 Hey, iOS devs.
When you work with CloudKit, you should understand difference between Development and Production Environment. And you need to know that TestFlight works with Production Environment.
It is worth to read this article from Apple:
#iOSdev
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🥳 6 months! My app
@skores_app
is now 6 moths on the App Store. $128 in total so far ☺️
Few things I’ve learned:
✅ Twitter is great marketing tool
✅ ASO - translate your metadata!
✅ Consistency is important. Don’t give up
📱
#indieDev
#buildinpublic
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🚀 2022 was a very productive year for me. I reached 4 life goals: released first 3 iOS apps on the App Store and 1st single of my band.
3 achievements in 2023 so far. Few other in progress.
I use Wins app to track my goals:
#wins
#goals
#buildinpublic
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Do you have an impostor syndrome sometimes? And if so, how do you deal with it?
Asking for a friend… 🥹👉👈
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My 3 main income streams:
🎸 Music: $2 in 4 months
📱 iOS app: $41 in 7 weeks
💻 UX Design: $35/hour
Which thing should I focus on? 🙂
I work up to half-time to have more time for iOS app and music.
#IndieMusic
#indieDeveloper
#buildInPublic
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😅 It finally happened. After 2 years on the App Store. After 4 apps and countless versions…
My first App Store rejection 🥵🥶😵
But fear not! I will add this missing link to my Paywall and try again 💪
#iOSdev
#buildinpublic
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🥰Thank you, everyone! 🥹
For all your likes, comments and shares. Thanks to you, yesterday’s release of my new app Moons was really great!
After 24h:
28,129 impressions
662 link clicks 🤩
🌝
#buildinpublic
#indieDev
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👋 Hey
#iOSdev
folks. What is this strange animation when I open a goal sheet?
Is this a bug or an iOS 17 feature? As you can see on my video not all sheets have this extra scale animation.
I haven’t seen this before Xcode 15.
#buildinpublic
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😍 Wow! 1024 people follow me. Whole kilobyte! 😱 My last few months on Twitter were really great:
🫂 I’ve made many new friends.
🙏 Many people helped me and I’ve helped a few that I could.
💬 We had many interesting conversations.
I would like to thank you all for everything!
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🙏 I think it’s good time to tell you how grateful I am for you. For this community 💜
A few days ago I posted my app’s ratings. 9 in total. 1 in the USA (1 star).
2 days later, I have 21 in total. 5 in the US (average score is up to 4.2).
Thank you 🥹
#buildinpublic
#iOSdev
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📊A little late this time (busy week). My monthly stats on the App Store.
$77 Proceeds in October. I know I know. It’s better than 0. But it’s far from a good business. And I hope that my 5th app (and 1st one with subscriptions) will change this ☺️
#buildinpublic
#iOSdev
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🥹🥰 I woke up today to find out that I have more than 700 followers.
It seems that sleep is good not just for our health 😉
But seriously - thank you, everyone! ☺️ I am very happy that you’ve decided to join me in my iOS dev and UX journey 🧑🏻💻📱
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I told staff at the hotel that I’m vegan. So the chef cooked something especially for me.
Cabbage fried with… butter, I think. It tasted like butter.
I can share the recipe if you want:
- cabbage
- butter
🤣🤣🤣
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🚀 Today’s inspiration:
@DonnyWals
Very friendly and helpful iOS developer from Netherlands. Blogger. Author of books about coding. Expert on Core Data and Combine framework. His Core Data book was one of my best investments in education:
#iOSdev
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