It’s Friday. What have you been working on for the week? Show your work - loud and proud! #buildinpublic #indiedev #sideproject

New HIG just dropped #hig #appdev #chatgpt #openai #ai developers.openai.com/apps-sdk/con...

New update for Time Out in review after shipping stuff, breaking stuff and then immediately going on holiday 🏝️😬 #iosdev #indiedev #buildinpublic

Current “To Do” list after 2 weeks off 🫠 #iosdev #devlife

New idea time ✨ As an iOS dev, to see my full user acquisition journey, I need to check App Store Connect + Firebase + RevenueCat. So I’m building FunnelKit where you can plug all of your existing tools together to see the full picture. tryfunnelkit.com #iosdev #analytics #appstore

When you start ranking above @timeout-london-rss.bsky.social in the App Store 😎 #ASO #indiedev #appstore

Shamelessly stolen from Reddit, incredibly accurate 😂😂 #sideproject #indiedev

Ahhh just the best notifications to get #ios #iosdev #indiedev

Today’s challenge: figuring out why some of pages for trytimeout.com have stopped indexing 🤷‍♂️ #seo #indiedev #webdev #iosdev #buildinpublic

My setup for the week with Time Out #buildinginpublic #iosdev #screentime #indiedev

The updated onboarding flow for Time Out!! #iosdev #indiedev #buildinpublic #solopreneur

iOS devs: what do you use to track a funnel from App Store page view right the way through to onboarding steps and onto in app subscription purchase? Right now I’m using GA for tracking onboarding steps, RevenueCat for purchases and then just eyeballing App Store analytics for page views. #iosdev

Gradients updated. So screenshots updated. Some nice improvements to Time Out. Check it out. 👇👇👇 ‪https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/time-out-lock-apps-for-focus/id6738120947‬ 👆👆👆

Check out the latest version of Time Out!! 👇👇👇 apps.apple.com/us/app/time-... 👆👆👆 #screentime #iosdev #indieapp #indiedeveloper

Is it just me or has iOS app review slowed down a bit? Nothing like the old days of multiple days, but still over 24 hours now? Maybe I’ve just had a few bad runs #iosdev

Time Out goes purple! Big update in for review. Check out the app here 👇👇👇 apps.apple.com/ie/app/time-... 👆👆👆 #buildinpublic #indiedev #screentime #productivity #iosdev

Starting small but dreaming big! 📈 6 clicks might not look like much, but every SEO journey begins with a single step. New weekly articles dropping every Monday - let's turn those 2.4K impressions into clicks! 🚀✍️ trytimeout.com #SEO #ContentMarketing #indiedev #BloggingJourney #DigitalMarketing

With basically no marketing, Time Out has crossed €100 in revenue!! Lots more features to come, and also stronger marketing efforts 💪 #indiedev #sideproject #iosdev #screentime

Am I wrong or can you not easily use the SF Symbols app with the new Icon Composer? Feels like SF Symbols should be embedded in the Icon Composer… #wwdc

The FoundationModels framework being free to run is pretty sweet, but I guess that makes sense seeing as it’s in device. Wonder how good it is out of the box 🤔 #wwdc

I’m in!

Time Out has a website! Which I probably should have built before launching the app, but my developer mind makes me build first and market later… anyway, check it out here. trytimeout.com

It’s here! My app Time Out has just launched. Manage your screen time with it by locking apps behind exercise goals or setting schedules for apps to be available throughout the day! Download here apps.apple.com/ie/app/time-... #ios #iosdev #indiedev #indieapp #screentime

My emotions!! Getting close to launch #ios #iosdev #indiedev #screentime

Nice little update to the Time Out beta. Now you can group apps you want to block into Block Lists. You can then associate Block Lists with system focus modes, blocking those apps when the focus mode gets enabled. #buildinpublic #ios #iosdev #indie #indiedev

After listening to the latest podcast from @theverge.com about teens flocking to their site after searching for “TikTok AppStore”, only to be left commenting on a story thinking it was a new social media app, all I could think of was this theonion.com/teens-migrat...

They also have an iOS SDK which is equally valuable! Well worth taking the time to check out how people use your app

Why are they even bothering? And how can the likes of Meta happily sign this while also getting rid of fact checkers in the US. Just weird

Beta testers continue to grow!! Couple new features coming soon to the beta before going for full V1 release. Come join the TestFlight and the fun!! 👇👇👇

Thanks for all the interest so far! Got a few testers from this post. If you know someone who wants to improve their productivity by moving more and being on their phone less, get them to test out TimeOut!

Come check out the beta for my new app Time Out! Time Out lets you lock apps behind an exercise goal. You can also use more traditional time based locks. TestFlight link here 👇👇👇 testflight.apple.com/join/CnzCzKqe #buildinpublic #ios #iosdev #beta

TIL that setting `isHidden` on views inside a stackview is cumulative, meaning if you set `isHidden = true` twice, you'll need to set `isHidden = false` twice to make it visible again 🤯 Bug open for 8 years and still an issue www.openradar.me/25087688 #ios #iosdev #uikit

Keep ‘em coming folks! Got a nice number of testers would love a few more!

Newest version of Time Out is up for people to jump in and test. Beta link found here 👇👇👇 testflight.apple.com/join/CnzCzKqe #ios #iosdev #buildinpublic #indiedev

Folks, I’ve got a public #TestFlight link to try out Time Out for anyone interested. testflight.apple.com/join/CnzCzKqe Go nuts! #ios #iosdev #buildinpublic #beta #screentime

Wow ok so #TIL that non optional types in Core Data can actually be nil! Looks like Strings and Ints can default to "" and 0, but if you use something like a Date or UUID it could just be nil at some stage in runtime 🤯 #swift #coredata #iOS #iosdev stackoverflow.com/questions/44...

Sunday evening 👌 #ios #iosdev #indiedev #whiskey

Guess it’s time to show my work now that I’m waiting for TestFlight beta approval. Meet Time Out: the app blocking app with a twist! Instead of just adding time locks for apps, Time Out lets you lock apps behind a daily exercise goal! #ios #iosdev #buildinpublic #indiedev

Yessss! Finally got the long awaited Family Controls entitlement! Beta here we come! #ios #iosdev #buildinpublic

Xcode randomly hiding schemes has been a massive pain for the last few months, so finding this as a resolution has been so awesome!! #iOS #iosdev #xcode forums.swift.org/t/xcode-seem...

Still waiting, and “support” have just stopped replying. This is infuriating primarily because I got the entitlement early for the main app, just forgot I needed it for the DeviceActivity extension. And it’s just a black box waiting for a reply #ios #iosdev #FamilyControls #apple

Anyone know how I can run more than one app extension at a time from Xcode? I’ve got main app plus 2 extensions and would like to be able to run them all at once #iosdev

Anyone know of something that aggregates and categorises new products on the likes of product hunt or the “show” section of hacker news? Would be interesting to see the changes in start up categories over time

To be fair, the part that always trips me up here is when you have to add a hosted privacy policy 🙄 #iosdev #BuildInPublic

Asking Apple support for the status of my entitlement approval for Family Controls… so helpful 🙃 #iosdev #indiedev

And now that I’m more on BlueSky than Threads, I’m starting to get the Threads notifications that were “picked for me” I.e. just notifying me that someone I follow posted 😮‍💨

Love when people jump on the opportunity to build their answer to missing features 👏 #ios #iosdev #indiedev

Don’t get me wrong, I can’t imagine you’re going to come away from this with the Mona Lisa of app icons, but for getting something out there quickly, this is pretty handy! #ios #iosdev

This is pretty sweet! #IndieSky

@robertlin.bsky.social hey would love to be on your buildinpublic starter pack!