I've just had to pay off 😭 HMRC Corporation Tax 😪 HMRC VAT Bill 😖 Business AMEX Bill 😵‍💫 HMRC Self Assessment Bill 😮‍💨 Personal AMEX Bill Please help me through these difficult times by purchasing my most expensive domain names or making an offer on them. 🤣

One final early wake up on a Sunday in 2025 to lace in my racing chip onto my race shoes. Lets see if I can even get close to my PB.

Yeah, the image-sharing feature of my app, which has preset sizes for Insta, TikTok, Facebook is good and all... but check out the video creation I've just added too! 🔥🔥 I think I like this part of the app more than the rest of the app 🤣 #buildinpublic

If there's one thing I'm making sure is perfect in this app before launch, it's the workout sharing. Just finished creating pre-built Instagram and TikTok layouts so users can share their workouts and hopefully help drive new users into the app.

Not sure if it's a bug or a feature, but during the @setreps.app development, it consistently wants me to train legs. 🤣 My legs are fried from Zwift!

This is the same Adobe that "achieved record revenue of $5.99 billion in its third quarter of fiscal year 2025, which represents 11 percent year-over-year growth, or 10 percent in constant currency." Insane revenue, but we're still going to charge you more.

Fitness is one of those non-negotiables that goes on my calendar. Adding Zwift this week just helped me level up on that too.

Might need to double check my birth certificate.

Looks like I bought some bootleg product off Amazon a while back. They've just found out and refunded me.

Bought some jeans similar to what I used to wear in the 00s. Yep, that's my foot compared to the bottom of the leg. Wide bottom jeans are back!

Two race medals in two days. Followed by two days of full access to Alton Towers for all runners as a perk of entry. A hard 10km yesterday in 50:48 An equally as hard 5km today in 23:42 Two very sore legs in the morning I think.

Just blocked out my calendar with current client work up to May 1st. 🎉 Pretty nice being self-employed and having this stuff pretty much guaranteed. It does mean it reduces a lot of my time to work on my personal projects, though 😢 That'll have to move to a few evenings a week.

Been doing this with a terminal command for years on Mac. Just a small command that uses SIPS to convert images into a different format in batch. Turns out I can just convert images from the right-click menu

Gonna try and use Paraspeech for an entire day today. That also includes this post. The latest version is absolutely brilliant. I want to see how high I can get this cost saving.

Do I have anyone in the UK called Louis on here? Just spotted your dream domain name is up for auction for an absolute bargain. Recently picked up my firstname as a .co.uk earlier this year. You can't let an opportunity like this pass you by

Updated colour theory for 2025. You know it's right too.

The first "UK Porn Block" / "Child Safety" data breach is out. https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/oct/07/discord-data-breach-proof-of-age-id-leaked I knew it would be quick, but not that quick.

Anyone ever tested sending this back to Claude? Am I cooked?

Definitely need to promote my apps waiting list. Also need to build the social media accounts out. Also need to actually build the app! Some of this will be getting outsourced very soon. 👀 #buildinpublic #mobileapps

Yeah, time to add a WAF rule in Cloudflare to see who from China is a real human. Very abnormal traffic that.

What are you all using for paywalls in mobile apps? - RevenueCat - Adapty - Superwall These seem to be the big three unless I've missed some. #reactnative #expo #mobileapps

Please buy my domains so that I can then, in turn afford to buy other domain names. Currently for sale StarGirl.co.uk LoudShirts.co.uk TheTeaCup.co.uk LegalWeed.co.uk MatchdayMerch.co.uk #domainnames #domains

Always a fun day.

Old iOS - Boring slider New iOS - Fancy bubble glass slider thingy Waiting for someone to release a UI Kit now to add backwards compatibility effect to older versions of iOS. #buildinpublic #expo #reactnative

This Nano Banana camera is pretty insane. Mobile browsers only, though. https://v0bananacam.vercel.app/

If you find yourself suddenly looking for an alternative to NextJS, I highly recommend Astro. https://astro.build/ I've been using this for years now to create rapid frontends for my and my clients' sites. Time to start seeing what sort of backend applications I can make with this now.

Been waiting for a project to update for the last 20 or so mins. Didn't actually merge the pull request in. Think it's time to stop for the day...

So much cross-device testing is needed on mobile apps. Not sure I'm a fan of all these different rounded corners on the new iPhones. Would love my component border rounding to match the device, but that's just me being really picky. I do like the glass/blur effect I've added to the app, th...

Well that's a new record on the Garmin sleep score. I get the feeling somewhere in the 8-9 hours mark is the magic marker.

Everything behind SetReps runs from here! This is going to be one huge, comprehensive database of exercises when I'm done! If there's one thing I don't mind using tools like Claude code for, it's pulling together simple admin interfaces to create a frontend for Supabase tables. #buildinp...

How long does it usually take for AdSense ads to be reviewed? It's been years since I last ran any ads.

Did a small bit of research on Apps in the Fitness industry using SensorTower. Picked a selection of the top apps August data 🍏 2.9m downloads, est. revenue of $6.4m. $2.19 per download 🤖 4.4m downloads, est. revenue of $1.4m. $0.31 per download The scale of this industry is something else!

I've bought two single purchase items of software over the last 2 weeks. First on being Rotato - https://rotato.app/ Second one being Paraspeech - https://paraspeech.com/ I miss buying something once and owning it. MRR models seem to have taken over.

Garmin users. Why does 100 sleep score feel impossible? The highest I've ever had is 97 Did a 10k run yesterday followed by another 15k steps at the zoo and then an early night still only 94.

Imagine building an independent app for one of the largest community events in the world and it getting acquired by the company that heads that up. Well, the unofficial 5k app for Parkrun just got acquired by Parkrun. https://www.parkrun.com/?p=31820 Really enjoy that app. Great to see!

1999 - Notepad 2001 - Frontpage 2003 - Notepad++ 2005 - Dreamweaver 2008 - Sublime Text 2016 - VS Code 2025 - Cursor What does your Web Development journey look like?

Literally every day...

React Native / Expo devs. Does anyone know of any really good examples of Expo apps that are also using Apple Watch?

Literally every day...

The fitness app market is reportedly up to 345 million users, with 100 million users engaging with an app daily. It's valued at $8.1 billion in 2023 and is estimated to rise to $19 billion by 2030. This market is huge! Imagine owning 0.0001% market share of an industry of this size.

Anyone after a job blocking scrapers? https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4301103801 Too soon?

Absolutely going to use this expo component to make my app look super slick on iOS. Fingers crossed, the effect works just as well on Android, too. https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/blur-view/ You can see it working on the footer of this screenshot.

"Here's how I got the average SERP position in Google to skyrocket in 2 days. Buy my course 👇🏻" You know it's coming, don't believe the nonsense. This is because Google dropped the parameter to stop scrapers from gathering 100 results at a time. Impressions are down a ton, which is causing ...

Not sure I trust my AI call note taker any more...

That took what felt like forever to get approved! Feel like not enough people know about the Apple App Store Small Business Program and are still paying 30% commission on sales and in-app purchases. https://developer.apple.com/app-store/small-business-program/

Today marks the end of the cricket season for this year. Another year down, another year massively improved. This now means I get back on average about 8 - 10 hours per week 🤣 That's stacks of additional hours to work on my apps. Although I should probably still take Saturdays off 😅

Overdue invoice chasing time of the month. Five of these are from the same client. For some reason, they love to let them build up and pay me in one block when I chase. 😂 Might have to switch them to a one-off 6-monthly payment twice a year.

Just found a rapid way to knock out superb-looking video demos. Never spent £69 on a pro license so fast in my life. Nice one rotato.app ! Also, here's a sneak peek of my onboarding for @setreps.app #buildinpublic ish.

Not surprising really... meiert.com/blog/html-co...

I really love building apps. I especially love it when you get really good error feedback to help you diagnose.