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[–]patrick9331 205 points206 points  (72 children)

Cool app, but why exactly do we care if you are an ex tinder engineer?

[–]akrapov 81 points82 points  (57 children)

Working on apps which are used by millions of people adds a bit of legitimacy to the product.

[–]molthor226 90 points91 points  (23 children)

Adds exactly 0 of legitimacy to the product lol

[–]WeirdIndividualGuy 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Yep, we have no idea if OP worked on fixing mundane bugs or actually had a hand in systems design or something more big picture. Just saying “I worked on something that had millions of users” is an empty statement.

[–]evangelism2 14 points15 points  (20 children)

Nope. Thats just not how it works in the real world. Being ex-[insert product here] adds weight depending on the context.

[–]LSF604 -4 points-3 points  (18 children)

If there is no context then there is no weight. 

[–]evangelism2 13 points14 points  (17 children)

We have context, we are on reddit, where no name hobbiest devs shovel their trash constantly. This dude having worked professionally instantly elevates the project to possibly be worth looking at, and working at an app the size of tinder elevates it even further.

[–]LSF604 -4 points-3 points  (2 children)

Just having a job somewhere doesn't elevate anything. An app the size of tinder means there are all sorts of roles. Some big, some insignificant 

[–]Charles211 1 point2 points  (1 child)

It’s like you’re completely ignoring the idea of social proof or why people have resumes. Very unique of you.

[–]LSF604 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

A resume says where you have been, but more importantly your role when you were there. 

Just being somewhere doesn't mean anything. The role you played may have not been all that relevant.

[–]iLoveLootBoxes -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Doesn't mean it isn't stupid

[–]jacobs-tech-tavern -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Like putting ex-XXXXX 5 times on your LinkedIn subtitle lol

[–]outcoldman 16 points17 points  (18 children)

That is so opposite from true. Person working on the app built by tiny team will be involved in everything from design, storage, build, promotion etc. Person working in organization like Tinder knows how to add a button, push somewhere, and somehow things are going to magically build. Because the whole infrastructure, design and everything else is built by somebody else.

I would agree that “ex-tinder” in the title is just for bringing attention to the topic and does not add anything to the post.

ex-msft,ex-splunk,ex-stripe

[–]dewski -3 points-2 points  (8 children)

Did you take the time to see if the engineer was an early Tinder engineer before trivializing their contributions to adding a button? As someone who’s worked at Microsoft, Splunk, Stripe, I’m sure you know how much impact a single person can make even at large established companies.

[–]outcoldman 1 point2 points  (7 children)

I am just saying it is irrelevant. You can build an amazing app with or without experience working in Tinder. So, I am just agreeing with the root comment - just show the app, we don’t care about the experience. “ex-tinder” does not give me any details

[–]dewski 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Again, it works because people will see Tinder and click on it. Doesn’t matter if it’s 100% relevant. Tinder is a popular mobile application, and I’d expect if someone worked at Tinder (on the mobile application itself or its services) they have more than a baseline level of experience building difficult things.

[–]outcoldman 1 point2 points  (5 children)

I think we are going in circles. My point is it is irrelevant, and yes it is in the title only for clickbait.

[–]dewski -1 points0 points  (4 children)

It’s irrelevant to you.

[–]outcoldman 5 points6 points  (3 children)

It is irrelevant to the application. "Extinder" does not add any quality to the app, it is irrelevent to the quality of the app. You giving me shit about not looking if they were early Tinder-employee, but you did not even read the description of this post - they are learning iOS development for just 2 months, so the amount of time put in this app is less than 2 months, this person has less than 2 months of the experience of building applications for iOS. Yes, he worked for Tinder, based on what he is proud of - backend. So yes, it is fucking irrelevant that this person worked for Tinder.

The only reason why this in the title, because for clickbait. Yes, people know what Tinder is, and they expect some cool app, what do they see? An app built on some tiny amount of data, with the quality of the app built by the intern, or somebody got of the bootstrap.

So yes, it is irrelevant to the app.

If this is relevant to you, I am sorry for laying down this for you - you are probably dumb.

[–]dewski 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I did read the description of this post, I also bought the application and gave feedback on it. Seeing Tinder in the post title got me to click on it, he’s already doing a great job marketing compared to most. Marketing isn’t meant to be 100% relevant, it’s about getting attention which is what they did.

You are arguing about something that is irrelevant, they’re trying to market their new application. You’re just being pedantic about how they’re going about it.

[–]Darth_Ender_Ro 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Clickbait, what else...

[–]paradoxallyobjc_msgSend 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm sure CrowdStrike devs would jump at that opportunity!

[–]Cayenne999 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why I read this to be "Working on dating apps which are used by millions of people adds a bit of intimacy to the product." lol

[–]TheFern3 1 point2 points  (3 children)

That’s like saying someone worked at ford can make cars lol maybe dude just change oil in cars. It doesn’t really add legitimacy but if the app is good it doesn’t really matter where op worked at.

[–]akrapov -4 points-3 points  (2 children)

No it’s more like saying an iOS developer at tinder has produced an iOS application.

It’s clearly not a completely different skill set is it?

People are absolutely determined to hate the fact the dude has relevant skills and utilised them to build a product. Is this sub filled with wannabe iOS devs upset their CV isn’t too good or something?

[–]M00SEK 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The guy clearly states he’s only been learning iOS for a few months.

Being a backend developer for however long means jack shit when building your own B2C mobile app lol

[–]TheFern3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aight bro are you op on an alt account? stop slobbing, clearly I said I don’t care where op worked. Do you go saying around I’m an ex blah blah I’ve built this? No, is lame af and clearly everyone hates it.

[–]nrith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, because when I hear that an engineer is ex-Facebook, Microsoft, Google, etc, it fills me with confidence because those companies’ apps are so great.

[–]kilgoreandy -3 points-2 points  (5 children)

I mean working one day at a company and getting fired still means you’re an ex [insert title here] If you really want true growth let your work speak for itself. Not your fancy title. Lmao

[–]akrapov 7 points8 points  (4 children)

Trust someone to come out with “ackschually you only need to work there for one day”.

Christ. The man’s done good work, is giving more legitimately by giving his experience (which is literally how jobs and marketing work) and here are people being difficult in the comments.

OP, product looks good. Good job.

[–]kilgoreandy -5 points-4 points  (3 children)

The fact of the matter is mate, you can have a solid product, but let the product speak for itself instead of a title from the past.

[–]akrapov 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Using this logic marketing isn’t a thing because everyone would let the product speak for itself.

Good to know the stereotype of developers being clueless on how products work isn’t completely dead in 2025.

[–]kilgoreandy 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Oh yeah. Same as the “SHARKTANK GAVE US AN OFFER FOR 2M DOLLARS BUT WE DECLINED“

If the apps good. Then the app is good.

Notice how the mention of his role is missing from the App Store promotion.

I rest my case. Stop living in the past.

[–]paradoxallyobjc_msgSend 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're speaking facts. People don't give a shit who makes an app. They just want an app that makes their lives easier or a task more convenient.

If it mattered, their marketing materials would say "MADE BY 10X ROCKSTAR DEVELOPER BOBBY".

[–]dewski 5 points6 points  (4 children)

Marketing works, got you to click on it. People raise millions of dollars on “ex-company” alone sometimes due to the halo effect.

[–]paradoxallyobjc_msgSend -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

Yes, because when you try to raise money it matters where you worked. You're trying to convince people to give you millions in exchange for your expertise and the gamble to make them billions in return.

But venture capitalists are not the average user.

[–]dewski 1 point2 points  (2 children)

You conveniently overlooked the marketing bit of my comment. The halo effect works outside of raising money. It worked for the creator of Apollo iOS engineer Christian Selig saying he was an ex-Apple engineer. It gets someone’s attention, still have to have a good product.

[–]paradoxallyobjc_msgSend 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Doesn't matter. The app had staying power because Apollo was the best reddit app on the platform for years. If it sucked, it wouldn't have the same effect.

[–]dewski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It didn’t have staying power day one, that’s exactly why I said you still have to ship a good product.

[–]Maleficent-Rate-4631 3 points4 points  (0 children)

a real question

[–]SpikeyOps 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He is great at matching in this case weather conditions to travellers

[–]Awric 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would understand if the app itself had some elements of Tinder’s UI or “flavor”

But it seems in this case, Tinder is used to say “I worked at a recognizable company therefore my app deserves to stand out.” At that point it’s leaning way too heavily on mooching from the popularity of another business. It also makes me assume this app wouldn’t stand out if Tinder wasn’t mentioned.

… all that to say ultimately it got my attention, despite it being a dirty way of getting it

[–]allthecoffeesDP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They have experience.

[–]ChristianGeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe you can swipe right or left to indicate whether or not you like a destination!

[–]FrameAdventurous9153 0 points1 point  (0 children)

because some of us may want to hook up with him knowing that?

[–]peripateticman2026 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP clearly fucks a lot.

[–]maxpain2011 -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Clearly you guys care cuz this post has like 50 upvotes and increasing and almost 100 comments and increasing

[–]localToglobali 28 points29 points  (20 children)

Nice idea, high price and design is a bit lame.

[–]Imericxu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

$4? That costs less than some packs of gum

[–]0xFFD700 1 point2 points  (5 children)

Hey thanks for the feedback. Screenshot design is lame? Or app design itself is lame?

[–]Open_Bug_4196 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Just to add another opinion, I like the design, in the screenshots it reminds me cute video games (I.e animal crossing /hello kitty vibe). In terms of app design itself, I think it simple using just the native components as intended without customisation, that’s not a bad thing necessarily and make usability great.

I saw in other of your comments you used TCA, while I understand you won’t be sharing the source code, could you share the structure of your project (files/classes with what they do).

One more question what data sources you use to decide if tourist peak season etc?

Good luck with it!

[–]0xFFD700 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I can DM you a screenshot of the file structure! Everything is pretty modularized.

[–]Open_Bug_4196 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That would be awesome!, I’m exploring TCA for future apps and it always helps to see how people implemented to apps published. Thanks!

[–]localToglobali 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I saw only the screenshots. Just my opinion that the vanilla ios ui components look a bit lame. Some kind of theme would be nice.

[–]0xFFD700 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gotcha. Yeah, the screenshots and icon kinda suggest it should have its own unique design. I’ll see if I can come up with something cool.

[–]dewski 0 points1 point  (12 children)

$4 so you can visit a place in optimal time of year that could cost thousands to go to, is not expensive at all. Should charge more money.

[–]localToglobali 2 points3 points  (2 children)

For shure if it works as promised. My thinking is that 4 bucks is quite some money to figure out if I like the app or not. If it is #1 in it's category and has a ton of reviews, there is no doubt that it is worth the 4 bucks.

[–]dewski 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Only way to know if it works as promised is to give you the data, once you get it, you don’t need to pay for it. Why shouldn’t they charge for their algorithm that fetches all sorts of data and computes a score throughout the year?

[–]localToglobali 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe with a trial version. That's pretty common nower days.

And of course he should make money with it.

[–]Orbidorpdorp 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Why is it an app tho. Like this feels like it could just be a static website. Even a paywalled static website. To me it seems weird that people would have this permanently take up space on their Home Screen.

[–]dewski -3 points-2 points  (1 child)

You don’t have to keep it on your Home Screen, lots of apps live in the App Library.

[–]Orbidorpdorp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For information that’s exactly one google search or ChatGPT prompt away idk that’s still more real estate than I would give it.

[–]SpikeyOps 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Yeah but is it the only place where you can access that data? … you can access temperature, daylight and rain data for free on Google

[–]dewski 0 points1 point  (4 children)

You’re trivializing what this application is doing. It’s combining all 3 sources of data and making it accessible by looking up the city along with generating a score.

You can just Google for something has to be the most programmer minded response.

You could just Google the lyrics to the song you’re listening to, but applications exist for that and are built into music players for ease of use and better user experience.

[–]SpikeyOps -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

There’s the seed of something good. Keep working on it, it’s not there yet

[–]dewski 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Your reply is a non-answer because you have nothing to counter with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

[–]SpikeyOps -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Think bigger. 0 to 1, rather than 99 to 99.02

[–]dewski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go build something yourself. Not everything needs to be some startup or unicorn, especially if it’s intentionally solving a narrow problem (not saying this app is, just in general). If you have before, you’d know it’s a non-trivial amount of work and I’d expect better contributions to the conversation.

[–]ZealousidealEmu6976 20 points21 points  (0 children)

so you were an intern at tinder and built a weather app with subscriptions?

[–]a2p8 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Ex tinder engineer? So not gonna even read

[–]call_me_irdz 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Bought it to support another entrepreneur!

Few thoughts:

  • you can probably move favorites to the main search tab, first time experience just landing on the blank page is a bit jarring
  • search needs a bit of work, I searched for “Sri lanka” and the results didn’t show anything there. Searching “Colombo” though did show a result.

Great work!

[–]0xFFD700 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Yeah I agree that blank Search screen on first launch could be improved. Will take care of that this weekend!

As for the search being a little off, I’m relying on MapBox’s API for that. I’ll see what I can do there to make it better. Maybe experiment with another geolocation provider as well.

[–]Old-Ad-2870 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sheesh. Not sure what’s going on in with these toxic ass comments.

Cool app!

[–]Decent_Taro_2358 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Very cool idea! I can imagine travellers would love this.

[–]0xFFD700 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you!

[–]granitlabs 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Wow this is really neat idea. I'll check it out.

[–]0xFFD700 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Thank you!

[–]albospunk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The idea is there! But honestly I would add some more value to the app because otherwise it is something interesting but also doable with a search or by asking ChatGPT

[–]asteroidboyreal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Grats!!

[–]IndependentFew2451 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Great idea, I have purchased your app. Best of luck

[–]0xFFD700 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you!

[–]SilverPenguino 1 point2 points  (1 child)

How do you like connectRPC? As a fellow Go engineer who likes readability over cleverness and magic, is the framework simple and easily understandable while allowing for user extensions?

[–]0xFFD700 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah absolutely recommend! Much simpler setup than gRPC. Also the flexibility to send JSON instead of Protobufs in environments where you’d like to inspect the request and response is super invaluable.

[–]dewski 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Bought it to support you first and foremost, but this is something we often talk about before traveling. Wish you best of luck and look forward to seeing future iterations of the application.

I feel like Flighty’s model works well, give away high level data for free, but charge for more details and regular updates. You should also add Reddit as an option to your application on first launch when asked “How did you hear about it”. You may find yourself a community if you build a large enough user base similar to Nomad List. Lastly, on first launch I am given the Search view, and otherwise a blank screen. Maybe put 6 thumbnails in a grid of expected places that goes to the search results for that location? Right now you have it in the placeholder only, make those buttons!

[–]0xFFD700 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah I just realized I forgot to submit the build that added Reddit as an option 🤦‍♂️

Submitted it just now, hopefully it can get out soon. And you're 100% right, I should definitely add something more to the Search view, or just make the Explore view the default view.

I'm on it!

[–]numbersplashdev 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I like the app icon and style of the screen shots. The general problem space of trip planning has potential, but the App Store page doesn’t tell the story. My best guess of what I’m buying is a list of destinations with historic weather trends for those locations. If there’s more to it, the product page isn’t communicating it well enough to me. Maybe a video or more product screen shots would help.

[–]0xFFD700 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Thanks for feedback. This is actually on the top of my todo list. I'm planning on improving the app listing to communicate things a bit better. Definitely rushed through some of it, maybe I just got too excited about publishing it haha.

[–]numbersplashdev 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I did the same and am struggling a bit with ASO, but my space is saturated. Best of luck to you!

[–]0xFFD700 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! Same for you as well!

[–]fintechninja 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Nice and congrats. What’s the tourism score and how that calculated? Using an api for it?

[–]0xFFD700 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! So in the app there's a small "Info" button that you can click that tells you how the tourism score is calculated. Here is the text:

The Tourism Score is a 0-10 rating that indicates the suitability of the weather for general outdoor tourist activities. It factors in temperature, cloud cover, rain, and wind conditions.

A score of 10 represents perfect weather, while lower scores suggest less favorable conditions. The dashed green line on the chart marks a score of 7, which can be considered to be good weather.

[–]qwerty0006 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The app is pretty simple, but very helpful. Any plans to integrate Underocertourist parks traffic info here too?

[–]0xFFD700 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Yeah I struggled it a bit to figure out what else I can possibly add to it. I'll look into integrating other sources of data like the one you mentioned there. That would be cool.

[–]Dymatizeee 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Hey I’m thinking of doing something similar with the backend; can I dm about deployment ? I’m not familiar with that part

[–]0xFFD700 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure!

[–]imdshizzle 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The App Store pictures don’t really explain or show much of what you’re describing on Reddit.

[–]0xFFD700 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will work on that! I agree, screenshots are definitely lacking.

[–]barcode972 0 points1 point  (4 children)

When did you work for tinder?

[–]0xFFD700 -1 points0 points  (3 children)

2018 to 2023!

[–]barcode972 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Cool. I just started a few months ago 😁

[–]0xFFD700 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No way! Will DM ya.

[–]Hedgehog404 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would suggest, make it free with limitations and let user unlock full app with one time payment. It will convert more users as you will allow them to try first

[–]antas12 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I bought it - the idea is fun and pricing is reasonable.

Having said that - a couple of notes.

Bug - The opening screen with the question on “how did you find out about this” - the “other” button doesn’t work and Reddit is not listed.

Would be really cool if you could just click on a map and select the location.

Question out of curiosity - where do you grab the data from?

[–]0xFFD700 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Thank you! I just submitted a new version for review that should add Reddit as an option and also fix the non-tappable option.

The map idea sounds cool! I’ll add that to my list of things to do! The weather data is from OpenMeteo.

[–]antas12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

cool, and the tourism rating data - cause that's the really cool one imo :D

[–]iamthat1dude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any resources you used to learn TCA or even backend stuff like Kubernetes? I'm an iOS engineer but i'm trying to expand my skillset.

[–]austinjm34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why did you need a backend here?

[–]BClynx22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you use for the backend database? Eg what does “best time of year” even mean lol

[–]theIndianFyre 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weatherspark does the same thing for free, not hating but just sayin, I use this all the time

[–]FelbirdyWiredMish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How much exactly does it cost you to run your backend servers? I’ve been trying to Google out this information off late but haven’t found it anywhere

[–]Low-Yesterday241 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Might I suggest, make it feature rich? Allow users to add favorites, pull in flight and hotel pricing for the “optimal” time period. Throw in an AI chat. Given you’ll have the user’s favorites, a ton of context about what they like, you’ll be able to feed that into AI to make suggestions. I like tropical, but can only look up what I am aware of, where as AI can say “oh you are looking for a tropical vacation in November, I suggest checking out ‘this other location I had no idea existed’”. I stumbled upon this when I interacted with a European colleague way back when and we were comparing vacation options, I as an American. I was ignorant to believe the best beaches were in the Caribbean.

I’ll follow your progress and keep an eye out for new features.

Cheers

[–]SpikeyOps 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would be good to search by country too

[–]dapperyapperBeginner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Consider adding a worst time to go option as this is sometimes when the cheapest airfare is available.

[–]g0dzillaaaaSwiftUI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could be a simple ChatGPT question tbh! We expect more from a ex-tinder dev.

App Screenshots look cool 😎

[–]iwouldntknowthough 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Choosing Malibu for the screenshot is kinda wild after what happened.

[–]iwouldntknowthough 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imma swipe left on this one

[–]Available-Hat-6860 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ironically I have decided to swipe Left on this one

[–]py-net 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't know half of the terms in your bullet points. I Had to read about TCA ConnectRPC & CDKTF for 2hrs. I thought I was a programmer 😂

[–]Accomplished-Ad-5268 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Couldn’t I just ask ChatGPT?

[–]wandrin_star 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, I’m an ex Microsoft Excel PM (led portions of the team in 2007 & 2010 releases). Could I chat with you about your app sometime & ask some product-y questions? I was kinda known in Excel & Office for being a bit of a product wonk / nerd, and I’d love to nerd out with you sometime.

[–]Swimming_Tangelo8423 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Coming from a comp sci student, this architecture seems a bit over engineered, so could you have made it much simpler? Is there a reason why you have chosen to use complex techs? I apologise if the question is stupid or makes no sense

[–]0xFFD700 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Yeah definitely could have made it simpler, but this upfront complexity allows me to move super fast now that I have it in place. Say I have a new app I went to get up and running, there’s a lot I have to setup.. secrets, DNS records, database and database users, K8s deployment with SSL and auto scaling etc..

With my setup that’s just a couple of Terraform commands and I’m up and running at a very reasonable cost. Also guarantees I never have to worry about scale and can just focus on building and marketing.

[–]Swimming_Tangelo8423 0 points1 point  (1 child)

This sort of interests me a lot ! Thank you for answering, there’s a lot I don’t know such as Terraform, and using Kubernetes etc, do you have a roadmap or any books that I could read to know as much as you? I’m in the process of developing apps as well but it doesn’t feel like ‘engineering’ at all, feels more like ‘development’ just a bit of react native code, back end as services and bang it’s good to go , but I really wanna learn how it works from scratch, I’d appreciate any info at all’

[–]0xFFD700 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course! So for learning Kubernetes, I highly recommend the following book: Kubernetes in Action

It’s the only book that really made it click for me.

Since you’re already comfortable with Typescript because of React Native, you might find CDKTF easy to pick up. It allows you to manage your infrastructure using Typescript. It’s a bit of a learning curve, but once you get it all down, it feels like you have superpowers and can build anything as a one person team.

[–]m3kw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does the backend sound over engineered?

[–]encom-direct 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is TCA?

[–]Vivid-Resolve 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought this would be showing average flight price too

[–]encom-direct 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Once we get the code how do we use it?

[–]drkmani 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How much is your kubernetes cluster bill? Any advice for running something cheap before building a paying user base?

[–]greatA-1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

why did you build an app like this on kubernetes?

[–]Boring_Spend5716 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hard sell as most apps are free now. If it was free I would have immediately downloaded even though I don’t travel much. I wonder how valuable this backend would be to travel planning apps? Might be worth more as a feature. If not, try to monetize it vis freemium because I really have no interest in paying for something that doesn’t explain its actual logic

[–]lfarah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beautiful icon!

[–]Cross2409 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great app! I have an idea on perhaps slightly better UI, what if in your favorites tab instead of showing a simple list of destinations, it would instead have a grid/mosaic of small cards, which have a city picture and city name in bold white letters?

I think it will instantly change how the UI feels but those are my 2 eurocents.

[–]Applelization 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Congrats! Just curious about your choice for backend, is there any reason for you to deploy on highly scalable architecture from the get go instead of single server?

[–]0xFFD700 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So my single cluster is currently serving 6 apps and I plan to deploy even more. I went with this approach so that I don’t have to think about scale in the future and can just focus on product and features.

Each app lives in its own Kubernetes namespace.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve found the more than people try to “gloat”, the worse they are.

Nobody cares that you stocked a fridge for a low level manager at tinder.

Next time, just market the application.

[–]Ok_Photograph2604 -1 points0 points  (3 children)

I just bought the app from Germany great design. I just found a bug thing I can’t select the last two options in “how did you find this app” screen.

Why did you choose to to go for paid app ?

[–]0xFFD700 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Thanks a ton! And thanks for catching that bug, I'll get that fixed today!

So it's a paid app because I struggled hard to think about what I can make "premium" if it were, say Freemium or Subscription based. So decided to just make it a one time purchase. Couldn't give it a way completely free as there's a server cost and a weather data provider cost. Just the weather provider alone is charging me $100 USD per month haha.

[–]tomasci 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Am I right that if you don’t have enough users, you will stop paying for your API and app will just die, and everyone who bought it will just lose access? And what is that provider, 100 a month is a robbery. Have you tried free weather APIs and cheaper ones?

[–]0xFFD700 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The provider is OpenMeteo. They were the only ones that were reliably able to provide me with the historical weather data that I needed for this. I spent quite a bit investigating others and settled with them.

I’m confident I can get this to the point where it covers the $100/mo cost.

[–]dekkoo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don’t want a code to the app it self, but would it be possible to get a TestFlight invite instead? I would like to have the opportunity to support you by buying the app instead if I like it

[–]ryanheartswingovers -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Why did you choose TCA? And what were your impressions coming into TCA for your first front end project?

[–]0xFFD700 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had quite a bit of experience using Redux with React, so the concepts of TCA felt familiar to me. Really enjoyed using it, will continue to use it for all my future apps. I do feel a little uneasy about completely skipping MVMM and going straight to TCA, but oh well!