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Retiring my family one-by-one by building consumer apps (and a business my kids can inherit).

Joined February 2022
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Chris
2 months
Decided I’m taking a break from X. I stopped posting consistently anyway and every time I open the app now I wish I hadn’t. It’s taking my time, my happiness and I actually believe working in silence has way more weight for me personally. Im having a detox, deleting the app
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2 months
I never made the switch away from cursor, I never had any reason to. Maybe I’m not a ‘power user’ like the Claude bois will claim but I use it every day and I’ve still not tried anything better (for consumer apps). I also still don’t know, or care, what an MCP is 🤷‍♂️
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2 months
Things in AI change so fast In July, everyone switched from Cursor to Claude Code In September, everyone switches back from Claude Code to Cursor or Codex after Anthropic allegedly decreased the quality of responses to save money 2 months!
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2 months
Decided to switch from @plex to @jellyfin after 8 years or so. I always run my server on a raspberry pi with two hard drives attached and unfortunately plex just breaks every 6 months or so and I have to reinstall the server. I’ve heard JF is lighter, so let’s see 🤷‍♂️
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2 months
Changed this to wake the table when the doorbell detects motion so by the time the doorbell is pressed it’s already been woken up by the person approaching the door. Still not cast iron but it works. Home assistant for the win.
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2 months
Yesterday I completed my initial build of a smart screen for my video doorbell. I wanted to achieve this workflow: - video doorbell is pressed - tablet in hall shows a live feed - after 40 seconds, tablet goes back to sleep It works well, but the video doorbell does take a
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3 months
lol
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3 months
I often forget that I created a free web tool for finding gradient inspiration for SwiftUI projects
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3 months
I now have a small fleet of three robots in my house. Two vacuums, one on each floor, and our newest member which is our new lawnmower. Doesn’t do great on thick grass but for weekly maintenance it’s excellent 💪 I’m being nice to them before the uprising.
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3 months
Until this week I had never once heard of App Mafia or any of the lads involved. I feel like I’ve been living under a rock.
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3 months
Ok I’m on £3k MRR. I know this is a good place to be. But I’ve been here for a year with very little movement. With purchases I make about £4k per month. What is your biggest piece of advice for me to grow to the next step? I’ve tried releasing tons more apps this year and
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3 months
Space raiders and cupcakes are not good for muscle goals apparently.
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3 months
2024 total earnings vs 2025 so far. On track to double what I did last year. Hoping for the same again next year 🙌
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3 months
Time to get in on the Bible app trends. Few more tweaks to make such as text to speech and more note and highlight options, but the AI integration works perfectly.
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3 months
Quite pleased with these app screenshots for my latest app. I also enjoyed asking Tesla what he thought of Elon Musk commercialising his name 😅
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3 months
working in silence > building in public
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3 months
I’m already regretting deciding to publish apps to Android. My iOS apps are all native Swift so I had to embed a new workflow for Android (react native with expo). The process so far has been slow, clunky and not at all user friendly to developers. I’ll iterate and release a
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Chris
3 months
Is this 'you have to wait 2 weeks with 12 testers enrolled' rubbish normal for new Google Play developers? I have it sorted, but it's annoying having to wait 2 weeks!
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4 months
I’ve vibe coded my most popular app onto cross platform using React Native (Expo). I plan to release it on Android this week after I sort the @RevenueCat integration and paywall this weekend. Let’s see if we really are leaving money on the table only coding apps in Swift.
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4 months
Just inspected the page source on OpenAI as the dashboard seems to be down, and saw this in the console. Nice touch @OpenAI
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