You can now adjust your timer durations directly on the main screen. One of those features I should have added earlier, but hey, that's what beta testing is for!

App icon by Matthew Skiles! Really happy with the final result 👌

Designed the App Store Screenshots myself with @paper (really cool alternative to Figma!) 💪

I'm grateful for the fantastic feedback from beta testers on my Pomodoro timer app. It's amazing to have so many engaged people offering helpful advice 🙏 Now comes the hardest part: Prioritizing what needs to be done before launching v1!

Looking for some beta testers that want to try a new Pomodoro timer app! Reach out when you're interested helping me shape my new product ❤️

Implemented a super basic paywall for my upcoming Pomodoro timer app 🙌

Building An Indie App Business #81: Two Weeks To Launch: Design Struggles, Keyword Research, And The Final Push open.substack.com/pub/sebastia...

The best tool when researching App Store keywords for a new app: tryastro.app 👌

One of the last features I'm implementing: Adjusting the timer durations 👌

Playing around with different background animations for the timer. Is this too much? 🤔

"Composer 1"-Model + "Plan-Mode" in Cursor casually one-shotting features in 2 minutes that would have taken me a couple of hours (if not days) 🤯

In case you missed it: Check out my interview with IndieHackers where I talk about how I managed to build a successful mobile app business. www.indiehackers.com/post/tech/b...

Boring, but absolutely necessary feature: Added the ability to manage the available categories.

RevenueCat's documentation has improved since I last created a new app. I also really appreciate the dark mode 😅👌

Just bought a domain for my upcoming Pomodoro Timer app! I opted for the cheaper version... When the app is a success, I'll try to get the "real" domain 😅

Putting in a lot of effort and time into the Live Activities and integrating AlarmKit. Really happy with how it turned out now 🙌

Tried to come up with a basic light mode for my upcoming Focus Timer app. I am happy with it for now, but I'm sure there will be some improvements in the future 👍

Working on integrating the new AlarmKit API for my upcoming Pomodoro timer app!

Heading into the winter season strong with my app, HabitKit! Holding third place for the keyword "habit tracker" in the US App Store since September now 💪

Making lots of progress on my upcoming Focus Timer app. Still, so many things to do. Hope my tight deadline wasn't too ambitious 😬

Anyone else having problems after updating their purchases_flutter package to >9.0.0? My lifetime purchases were never consumable and I still get reports from Android users that they can't restore their purchase on another device 🤔

Made the "Streaks" card configurable (which weekdays should count towards the streak and how many hours you want to focus weekly)!

Because I get so many questions about this: I use @ShotsAppHQ for creating my product mockups 👌 One of the best product in the market!

Tried to come up with a cool "Streaks" card for the "Insights" tab of my pomodoro app!

Forgot how much fun it is to build a completely new app. You can work simultaneously on so many thing: Design, Onboarding, Pricing, ASO, Landing Page on top of learning a completely new technology 👌

POV: You had a productive day at work 👌

Decided to add a "Category Distribution" chart which allows users to see where exactly they are allocating their focus time 🙌

It has been some time since I've set up a new RevenueCat project. Sounds dope 🙌

More progress on the "Insights" view of my upcoming Focus Timer app. Swift Charts is an awesome library btw! 👌

Business idea for a talented designer: Make an icon library which has the same style as SF Symbols. Please tell me something like this exists. SF Symbols are great for system icons but it's heavily lacking in the lifestyle area.

Started working on the "Insights" screen for my upcoming Focus Timer app. What cool statistics do you think should be displayed?

Just had to think about it again: Ten months ago, my app HabitKit was featured in a "The Studio" video. This mention significantly boosted both downloads and revenue. I couldn't have asked for a better shoutout, and I'm incredibly thankful for that 🙏

The "Plan Mode" of Cursor made my productivity explode recently. It is SO much better than using the "simple" Agent mode. It 10x'ed my usage though and I'll have to pay extra soon. But totally worth it!

Building An Indie App Business #79: Sick Monday, Productive Wednesday: A Developer's Rollercoaster Week open.substack.com/pub/sebastia...

Tried to come up with a good way to assign a category to a focus session. This will be super important for the statistics screen later on.

"Happy Bootstrapping" Folge 143 mit @roehl.dev von HabitKit.app seit heute live! Themen: ➡️ Wachstumstreiber von 5K $ auf 30K $ MRR ➡️ saisonale Schwankungen und Challenges ➡️ Viraler Moment bei "The Studio" ➡️ Motivation ➡️ Times Square Billboard ➡️ neue App zum Podcast 👇

Always feels good to have my income diversified across two platforms!

Developed a minimal system to add notes to focus sessions. Great way to review what you worked on each day later!

I've set November 30th as the release date for my upcoming Pomodoro timer app. Announcing it now keeps me accountable and motivated to ensure it ships on time! 💪

Still trying to nail the timer view of my upcoming Pomodoro timer app. This is super hard, but I think I'm making progress!

Building An Indie App Business #78 Picking a Release Date and Making Progress On the New App open.substack.com/pub/sebastia...

Love how Cursor keeps introducing cool new features. It's been one of my biggest productivity boosts in recent years.

I just learned about the new AlarmKit API that comes with iOS 26 after building a focus timer app for the past three weeks. Super excited about it, I should have watched the WWDC videos before I started this project 😅

Tried to come up with a super minimal solution for showing details of a session in the "History" screen of my upcoming focus timer app. I think I'll leave it like that for now 🤔

This year has been AWESOME for HabitKit in terms of ASO so far. Top 3 for the keyword "habit tracker" 🎉

Playing around with different timer screen concepts... This is super hard, but I think I'm making progress 🤔

Trying to come up with a good-looking History list view for my upcoming Focus Timer app. Still a work-in-progress, but I like the general direction. What do you think?

Building An Indie App Business #77: Focus Timer Progress & Autumn Optimism open.substack.com/pub/sebastia...

The gold standard of how a native iOS app should look: Gentler Streak! I always come back to it when I'm out of ideas how to solve a tough UX or design problem!

I used some weird hacks, but I successfully added a DatePicker to the toolbar of the history tab. I love the iOS 26 default calendar look! 👌