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?

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

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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.

Has anyone vibe-coded a Hootsuite clone yet? What are the alternatives? #VibeCoding

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Today is the day I get my final designs for the branding of my fitness app that I'm going all in on for the rest of the year. I used designcrowd.com as I didn't know what direction to go. Received over 400 unique designs in total #buildinpublic

Think you know everything about WebFonts? www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/y...

Deadlifts are the least enjoyable exercise I do. Absolutely hate them. Annoyingly, it's probably one of the most beneficial too.

Might have to get back into domain flipping again. Just checked my Google sheets and the last time I did this in 2023 I was in profit of 153%. Can be a small goldmine if done right

Just spotted a couple of holiday companies using the Ibiza final boss chap in their ads using AI. Am I right in thinking he should probably get himself a lawyer here and go after them? Chap definitely needs paying for this.

Anyone in a band that needs a domain name? domainlore.uk/oasis.co.uk Seems like it could fit a Mancunian band.

Looks like we've got a new spam template that's hammering my phone.

- Deftones in 2 days. - Oasis in 7 days. 16 year old me would lose their mind at that. Might need some recovery after this weekend.

Bought a site a while back that had been burned a bit. Fixed the basics and added some PSEO. I then added 25 internal links to 300,000 pages, and now we're making progress with indexing. Currently up at a 5,000% increase in impressions and a 1,900% increase in clicks since I took over this site.

Gave the new @villagecricket.bsky.social bat a really good go tonight. New high score! 67 off 47 balls. Then caught behind from a big fat edge. 🤣

Has anyone else noticed that Facebook is just the top posts from certain Reddit subs just a few hours later?

Thought I'd update my username over here 😊

Properly stepped up my training in March. Expecting way more than this from April with the cricket season starting.

Everyone is out here making Ghibli cartoon images, and I'm just trying to perfect the best Zoolander prompt.

I've bought hundreds of domain names in the past, most of them while drunk and on nights out. This one though... completely sober. There was no way I was letting this one get away from me. Absolute bargain for a first name domain too!🎉

Whenever I click this button, I go through 2 emotions. 🎉 Yay, it's shipped! 👎🏻 Ugh, I hope they don't reject the new version.

I go through far too many musical phases when coding as you can see here. I think today might be an Orbital sort of day though.

I feel like I just made my morning coffee, and it's now lunchtime. I should probably have some breakfast 🤣 Coding is good for making time disappear.

So many bugs with the Subway app. Previous app was so much better. Found one more today (Likely a dark pattern) ➡️ Choose redeemable rewards while you're waiting ➡️ Screen goes to sleep ➡️ Wake your screen to scan QR code, rewards are unselected Many people will have missed this and missed rewards.

Trading 212 doesn't make any sense. Set a buy on an asset for 8,950p, buy goes through for 8,950p Set a limit sell for something at 10,100p, sale eventually gets filled for 9,819p Don't get me wrong, happy with the 9.5% gain, but that's not the point. Might move back to IBKR

Is anyone making a decentralised Instagram at all?

When support tells you to contact support, that's when you know your support is a bot.

Erm... Ok. Is anyone else getting added to random lists all of a sudden? Apparently, I'm a porn bot 🙈

Cheeky Sunday tipple before we start the week heading towards my birthday.

10 apps are planned so far, I just need two more ideas. 5 apps have detailed project specs 3 are in progress and have a working MVP version. 1 app is nearly ready to go into testing when I stop adding new shiny features to it. Mainly discovering @revenuecat.com to help with IAP.

First 100 commits for 2025 in the bag

Some pretty spooky views on today's run.

It's wild that in 2025 Napster is the platform that gives artists more money for their streams.

Corporation Tax, VAT Bill and Self assessment, all dropping in Jan do not make for a fun month. I think I need to stock up on Ramen noodles.