Started removing some sound effects last night to help troubleshoot bugs that have popped up during our closed beta for COPY. Crazy how much usability is lost without the little beeps and boops that start to become tiny indicators that "it's working". 🔉 #BuildInPublic #IndieApp #software #design

Just found one of my favorite Sonique skins from the "geocities era" of the internet 😂 I was always drawn more to Sonique than Winamp. Was bummed when Lycos shut them down right as Sonique 2 was starting to pick up some momentum during early development. #BuildInPublic #IndieApp #software #design

current status: making a walkie talkie app in 2026 and explaining to people that no, it's not a phone app, and no, it's not discord, and yes the skins are the whole point, and yes i know that sounds weird, just trust me. #BuildInPublic #IndieApp #software #design

every messaging app is optimized for the same thing: making you feel like you need to respond right now. COPY doesn't have read receipts. no typing indicators. you talk when you want, listen when you're ready. #BuildInPublic #IndieApp #software #design

as we've been building COPY, @atippins.bsky.social has focused mainly on the skins and skinning engine. this week we wanted to see what it takes for someone else to build a skin from scratch. needless to say, the engine is working. fun to see how this one evolved 🔥 #BuildInPublic #iOS #IndieApp

i'm glad one of us is good at THE SOCIALS 😂@atippins.bsky.social articulated our experience building COPY perfectly. I LOVE making software. Always have. But COPY is more than that. It's a creative outlet I haven't been able to exercise in 13 years of B2B software.

what if your walkie-talkie looked like it was designed for the grid 💅 #BuildInPublic #iOS #IndieApp #UIDesign

while we focus on the core experience for COPY, @atippins.bsky.social and i started to explore monetization approaches, and kinda love this one: skins as the whole business model. app stays free, cosmetics are paid. no subscriptions. ever. #BuildInPublic #iOS #IndieApp #expo

went down a crazy rabbit hole for how winamp and sonique architected their skinning engine back in the day. fascinating to find that by Winamp 3 and Sonique 2, they had essentially settled on a very similar XML based skinning approach. #BuildInPublic #iOS #IndieApp #android #expo

we're bringing skins back to software 💅 COPY is a walkie-talkie app for iOS @atippins.bsky.social's been cooking on the first batch of skins. If you want to help us test, sign up for early access: getcopy.app #BuildInPublic #iOS #IndieApp

Just catching up on the game awards. When the orchestra starts playing and @snowbikemike.bsky.social casually unbuttons his jacket to signal something hype is about to drop. 😂 Moment of the show. 👏

Took the last few weeks off of @budglets.app development as annual planning has ramped up at work. Still been able to get a little work in! Added support for savings accounts and savings goals. Commissioned a design friend to create a Duo type mascot. #BuildInPublic #iOS

One of my must have utilities every time a set up a new Mac. One of the killer feature they don’t mention is that it will enable your keyboard volume keys if you have speakers hooked up to an external monitor.

The earlier you get people using what you've built, the faster you'll get out of your own head, and find those showstoppers to adoption 🙂

Edit transactions starting to feel smooth. Syncing engine has been stable. And my first Smart Insight is almost ready. So close to opening up the beta group 😎 #BuildInPublic #iOS

Still a work in progress but transaction syncing is starting to feel good 😎 #BuildInPublic #iOS

Best part of #ios26 release day are all the new app updates. It’s like geek Christmas. Excited to see what everyone has been cooking.

Huge progress on Budglets this weekend! First iteration of the transaction sync engine. New color/design system. Played with layouts on the budglet envelopes. Feels like it’s starting to come together 😍

Started vibe coding a fun little private social app to share movies, shows, books and eventually podcasts you’re into with friends. Amazed at how good Claude code is 🔥

Best feature of macOS 26 beta: sms sign-in code auto-fill now works on 3rd party browsers 🥰

Loved the movie, F1 so much. Simple plot. But fun as hell. And Hans Zimmer! 🎵

Just donated! Love this ❤️

This is really, really good!

please tell me @snowbikemike.bsky.social is playing this on stream 🤞

Hyper Light Breaker from @heartmachine.bsky.social is already soooooo gooood. (And hard 😂) Can’t wait to see the game evolve throughout early access. If you played Drifter, the little easter eggs add so much.

I can’t stop playing 😍

I've had Kinda Funny playing in the background on the TV for so long they've essentially raised my kids 😂. Congrats on 10 years, @gameovergreggy.bsky.social Shoutout to that time you and the crew came to AZ and were spreading the smiles in full Greggy mode. Basically the perfect day.

✅ Combines souls-like and metrovania elements. ✅ Warrior cat companion ✅ Stop motion animation, art style and effects inspired by HR Geiger and Roy Harryhausen?! SOLD. On sale in a bundle with Trek to Yomi which has been on the list too #indieGames

Been playing a lot with front-end in windsurf - just using ai prompting to get the results I'm looking for. Figuring out how to work WITH the AI agent vs just telling it what to do makes such a difference. Few tips that I've picked up on recently... 🧵

I remember when @theverge.com was created by an amazing group of journalists leaving Engadget, starting with This Is My Next. It’s been one of the few sites I’ve visited daily for the past 13 years. I love how they’ve bet on themselves, and not the algo. Subscribing was a total no-brainer.

Spent the night playing with @windsurfai.bsky.social - having an agent fully set up your dev environment locally is magic af. Went from idea to some rough front end prototypes in about 2 hours 🤯

Some slight refinement to the hero tracking UI, allowing the player to now attribute a win to a single hero, while still displaying who else they played during that match.

Got hero selection and stats working earlier tonight. Need to make a few tweaks after using it during my last game sesh. Thinking I might need to attribute a win to a single hero to make the stats easier to understand. But now that I have hero data - the fun insights work can begin 🤓

Still trying to figure out what the three seashells do 😂

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Rewatching Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol and I forgot how fun this one was. Surprised Brad Bird doesn’t get more directing gigs. I think I’m one of the few who enjoyed Tomorrowland too. #Filmsky

Such a great tip. Thanks for sharing, @addyosmani.bsky.social

Bluesky continuing to bring the old-school twitter-like iOS UI playground vibes

One of the most essential pieces of software I've installed on my Mac in years 😂 🎉

Hey @minabach.bsky.social ! Love what you all are doing with duck.ai! Been a huge fan since you rolled it out 🙂

The amount of tools, apps and utilities that are popping up around Bluesky give me hope it’s more than a short term blip in the social media scene. Reddit and Twitter conveniently forgot how much an open API helped them reach the scale necessary to monetize their user base.

Hero selection is coming along nicely! Added a tabbed UI and broke out the tracking function from the session stats. Things were starting to get a little too crowded. #overwatch2

When you get under 1 million tokens for your monthly allotment on bolt.new

Runasapi is such a good map in #overwatch2 - makes playing Push infinitely more fun

One of those threads you come across that makes you wish Bluesky had a way to save posts (beyond just likes 😀)

One of my fav ways to speed up development and save tokens on @bolt.new -rapid UI prototyping with Claude Artifacts. Share some quick wireframes or describe the idea, and within minutes you've got different options to play with. Here's 2 iterations of the hero stats view I'm working on, from Claude

Built a fun little mobile companion app for tracking your #Overwatch competitive grind! Introducing owtracker.app (still in EARLY beta - be gentle 😅) Two weeks of work with @bolt.new and I'm pretty stoked with how it turned out 🎮 Sharing the journey + tech details in the thread below ⬇️ (1/6)

Hey @bolt.new - ❤️ the new netlify integration for persistent single site deploys! Question: if I change the site name in netlify, will it still deploy to the correct site ID? Or will that break my ability to continually deploy to the same site?

The fact that @eve6.bsky.social is here is all I needed to stick around

This place just needs the 'ol fail whale to fully realize it's destiny 😂