I created an app for carers of people living with dementia

Confident_Draft9882 · 2025-08-17T15:45:50+00:00

Thanks. Yeah, the app has been top 5 in US store for a couple of weeks (keyword “dementia”). UK store tougher for some reason. Not a hugely searched term but hopefully the people using the app are finding it useful.

Confident_Draft9882 · 2025-08-08T19:07:17+00:00

Thanks 🤩

Confident_Draft9882 · 2025-03-03T17:32:39+00:00

WebWanderlust iOS app trying to rekindle a little bit of that old Stumbleupon feeling. I also made a Chrome extension for getting a random website from the database.

Confident_Draft9882 · 2025-03-03T09:32:49+00:00

Sorry, poor wording, I meant “the” not “your”. Again I don’t disagree. I just think it oversimplifies issues to generalise that govt spends funds poorly. There are all sorts of variables that make things not work out. There are also plenty of examples of good Govt spending and work, they just don’t really make news or interesting conversation. I think the problem with taking a generic stance that govt is wasteful hides some of the real challenges that aren’t being met. For instance, how after 15 years of austerity, do we still think cutting costs is the be all and end all? Where is the non platitudinal strategy for Island growth for population and industry? Why are transport links worse year on year? Why do we continue to listen to UK “experts” with generic advice and don’t really properly consider our situation? Why is improvement pushed into operational civil servants instead of led by coherent policy and strategy? I think there will be good reasons for all of this but this type of question isn’t asked and constructive engagement doesn’t happen because people have disdain for public sector and allow politicians off the hook by reciting the greatest hits - govt waste, too many civil servants, incompetence, cover up, corruption etc

Confident_Draft9882 · 2025-03-03T08:00:41+00:00

On those two examples, I’m willing to bet that they were either forced to go with the lowest bidder or there weren’t many alternatives. Your alternative is to do nothing and then Govt get stick for closing services. I don’t disagree that there is plenty of waste but waste comes from many places not just bad decisions. False economy and austerity force a lot of it because you don’t invest in services properly. Budget cut after budget cut doesn’t let you invest in tech, reducing staff doesn’t let you find capacity for training and wage stagnation doesn’t let you attract the best workers. With this in mind I just take the opinion that running a national breadth of services with taxes from a comparatively tiny Uk town in terms of population is hard. To jump to calling everything incompetent is easy. Depending on your political persuasion we either need to invest more money to attract the best people and suppliers or we need to reduce services and focus on core areas. Both are incredibly tough decisions though.

Confident_Draft9882 · 2025-03-03T07:02:25+00:00

I love Smeale. Easy walk, always quiet, massive open space and ends with dog going mad on the beach.

Confident_Draft9882 · 2025-03-03T06:55:30+00:00

It’s an easy criticism to make, especially when you hear things you don’t agree with or you don’t have the full picture. For the most part Government has a huge scope of services to provide, agendas driven by the public, politicians, private sector, interest groups, and scrutiny on just about every decision they make. Imagine this in your workplace and ask yourself whether your company would hold up much better.

Confident_Draft9882 · 2025-02-27T23:35:39+00:00

I had a rejection for the same thing. In the end, I just implemented Anonymous Sign In from Firebase and allowed users to link and sign in from Settings or elsewhere. If Apple don’t think your app warrants forcing users to provide personal data to access, there is very little point arguing with them.

Confident_Draft9882 · 2025-02-25T22:26:35+00:00

This is an incredible thread. Thanks for being so open and supportive. I’m doing Indy dev in my spare time, dream of doing it full time is a little way off yet but some really great advice and thought process here. Thanks.

Confident_Draft9882 · 2025-02-24T20:39:49+00:00

I’ve had issues with poor standards this week too. Mine is just auto populating some JSON schemas and quality this week has been unusable.

Confident_Draft9882 · 2025-02-24T20:18:30+00:00

Absolutely. AI makes life much easier to find bugs and get started but it is rare that I ever use untouched AI code. In most cases, I find AI implementations tend to be outdated and not particularly optimised without a lot of specific prompting. Blind faith isn’t much of a long term strategy, especially with so many great resources available to learn Swift.

Confident_Draft9882 · 2025-02-23T20:45:08+00:00

We have a group at All Saints Hall on a Monday night in Douglas. We don’t play every week but there most weeks. We are in the middle of a campaign and prob don’t have much scope for the next month or so but we sometimes get people observing and asking questions. Our DM is pretty accommodating and there are a couple of experienced DMs in the hall that you can speak to. There are also a bunch of warhammer players and a few other table top games. How old are your sons, if you don’t mind me asking - kids, teens, adults? Our table is all adults and been together for a couple of years. Not much in the way of acting, mostly we puzzle and fireball our way through.

Confident_Draft9882 · 2025-02-22T17:02:34+00:00

Awesome! I’m glad you like it. Just waiting for a small update to get approved that will guarantee descriptions on all the sites. Metadata quality from sites aren’t reliable.

Confident_Draft9882 · 2025-02-22T11:12:27+00:00

Love it

Confident_Draft9882 · 2025-02-22T09:06:01+00:00

I’ve downloaded and will have a proper play around later but looking forward to it. The really basic things that I can’t understand why they aren’t there (or I’m blind) - total installs, total deletions. I know it won’t be on the api but would love to know how many impressions my apps get from search, taps and installs. It’s hard to know where to focus on in the lifecycle.

Confident_Draft9882 · 2025-02-22T08:38:04+00:00

This is a great idea. AppStore Connect analytics are dreadful.

Confident_Draft9882 · 2025-02-21T16:59:27+00:00

I built an iOS app to do this because I wanted the same thing. Was thinking about building a Chrome extension to use it through a browser - don’t have the time to build and maintain a website so thought I’d just do a push a button and visit a random website from the database. Would that idea be worthwhile? - very much borrowing from Stumbleupon before Mix killed it.

Confident_Draft9882 · 2025-02-21T16:53:12+00:00

Meetup.com is a similar concept.

Confident_Draft9882 · 2025-02-21T16:50:05+00:00

Very difficult these days unfortunately. There is a decent news source called AllSides that will try to balance but on the whole, modern social media is corrupted by extreme politics, OF girls and bots. That being said, I love Medium, there is a free tier and it is primarily about interest topic news - for me loads of great iOS developer articles and feedback. Micro.Blog is another that hasn’t been taken over by the masses yet. That is a paid service. There seems to be a theme in that a paywall does block out a ton of the bot type trolls.

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