David Barnard
@drbarnard
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“Foremost expert on App Store minutia”―@BenThompson. Growth Advocate @RevenueCat. Host @SubClubHQ. Founder @Contrast. Featured in @nytimes @WSJ @TechCrunch etc
San Marcos, Texas
Joined July 2007
Just spent almost 3 hours nerding out on the past, present, and future of Apple developer relations with @gruber for a forthcoming @SubClubHQ podcast episode. Can’t wait to share it next month!. That was way more fun than anyone should be allowed to have at work.
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RT @flarup: Apple made a beautiful book about their hardware history. I still hope they’ll do the same for their interface design. Because….
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“I also now deeply understand why experienced business people have a strict “no assholes” policy. I always thought this was throwaway advice, but it only takes one lawsuit to make it clear how incredibly valuable it is to work with people you trust.”
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RT @joshdholtz: ✨ New Senior Product Engineer role at @RevenueCat . I’m hiring TWO on the Monetization team. ✅ 5+ years full stack experie….
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Our resident EU whisperer, @MrJefago, wrote about the latest DMA related App Store changes. TLDR ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
🇪🇺 Apple’s June 2025 EU update:. 1 entitlement for every link-out/alt-pay route.3 fees = 2% + 5-13% + 5% CTC (CTF ends ’26). @MrJefago: SMBs stay with IAP; big apps can test the 12% path. Details ↓ .
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RT @kylebrussell: Also if you’re exploring using Apple’s model in your iOS or Mac app this fall, I am one of very few people who has fine-t….
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RT @kylebrussell: New blog post on my experiments with Apple's new foundation model . I tried to make Apple's lil' model act like Golden Ga….
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RT @RevenueCat: Good morning New York! The Vibe Coding Catfe landed in the Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central Terminal, with coffee, pasties,….
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RT @lucasmoscon__: I'm buying a react native mobile application doing at least $2,000 in MRR. Do you know someone interested in selling?.
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RT @mcuban: When a large employer pays so little that their full time employees qualify for Medicaid , (or any public assistance ) we the t….
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I was on LinkedIn today (fishing for @SubClubHQ newsletter links) and looked at my own profile for the first time in a long time. Not the type of career path you typically see on LinkedIn…
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There’s a new option for automatic concentric corners — based on your layer’s distance to the nearest container. Now you can unbookmark that tweet with the formula you refer to. 🧵↓
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RT @sketch: That glass you’ve all been talking about? It’s available now in our latest beta. Take it for a spin and let us know what you th….
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RT @_chuckyc: working for this company makes it difficult to answer the question "What's your day to day like at work?".
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RT @leonsasson: @drbarnard all fun and games until an amortization schedule excel sheet has 300k rows.
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It was @leonsasson! And the accounting firm is actually an accounting SaaS:
Someone mentioned to me that they work with an outside accounting team that has a process for downloading Apple’s payment reports and shoehorning that data into a calendar month, accrual bookkeeping format. Was that you? Do you know who I’m talking about? Please reply (or DM).
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RT @mrexits: For the love of god please someone make this for the artificial intelligence moment right now
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My colleagues are insane. in the best possible way….
🌍Think you can build a paywall faster and better than anyone on earth?! Well then step into the ring for your chance to win $5,000. 💰💰💰.🤼♂️RevenueCat's World Paywall Speed Building Championships is part hackathon, part WWE main event, part e-sports fever dream. ⚡️You’ll be
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