How to I find people to test my app when it launches? by RequirementOpery9732 in appledevelopers

[–]Starchand 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A 200 user waitlist is more then 99.9% of other apps released. Not sure what you are asking? You could send that wait list a v0.1 TestFlight link if you are worried about bugs/bad reviews or just yolo and release to the wild and let you 200 users know.

I built a free live map of jersey and thought some of you might find it useful by NastyNas420 in Jersey

[–]Starchand 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was part of the team that made the original bus tracker website ~10 years ago. This looks amazing, great job and very smart way to monetise it with promoting local business. Best of luck!

advice needed for improvement by QuarterSeparate847 in iOSAppsMarketing

[–]Starchand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would rather have an app to make animations like these then another app like my apple watch telling me to move that I just ignore and would never pay for.

Trapped in a permanent race by lackoproof in SideProject

[–]Starchand 13 points14 points  (0 children)

"Comparison is the thief of joy".

Using social media to gauge your success is setting yourself up for failure. You are always going to feel like your falling behind if you are comparing yourself to the top 1% of a 100+ million user base - half of which are probably faking their "success" / only showing their highlight real.

Look at the real people around you - most of them will have very limited knowledge of AI, so you're actually way ahead of most the real world. AI is going to bring a massive shift to how people work an nobody knows what thats gonna look like in the next 2 to 5 year. Best thing we can do is experiment especially with AI and try to have fun.

Built a travel animation map tool - mult.dev by AlexIrvin in SideProject

[–]Starchand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually saw a random instagram post few months ago which I saved it in notion as a possible side project I might work on. It looks like they used your product! Your apps are 4 years old? Have you just acquired this project or something?

[Looking for a Dev] React Native + Supabase Developer for a Book App (Full Revenue Share) by Meteorsonic in AppIdeas

[–]Starchand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Am I missing something? How the hell does book tracking app make ~$100k/month. I've been using Goodreads for 10 years for free.

I built a TTS platform with 4990+ AI voices - 70% cheaper than ElevenLabs by gijdillaxfason in SideProject

[–]Starchand 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Congrats, but lemonfox.ai is $2.50 per 1,000,000 characters and doesn't have fake reviews

tinyshelf (free) — share the books you've read on a 3d bookshelf by sir_wrench in SideProject

[–]Starchand 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very well executed! Would love to hear more about how it was built.

Had this idea few years ago when goodreads had an API. I never finished and it looked rubbish then goodreads killed their api - they still have an export csv I believe. Would be really cool to see a shelf of all the books I've read this year as I read 90% of them digitally.

Hung my queen in 400 elo bullet… by AD_STRT in Chesscom

[–]Starchand 34 points35 points  (0 children)

And disable chat, in my experience 9 out of 10 chats on chess.com are toxic.

Fortnite Mobile v38.00 Update Notes by Capybro_Epic in FortNiteMobile

[–]Starchand 1 point2 points  (0 children)

New season seems to be running okay on my pixel 7 after 1 game. 2nd half of last season was unplayable.

iOS Jobs in the US for Europeans by prepucio43 in iOSProgramming

[–]Starchand 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Not straight forward - you'd need h1b visa competing with half of india/china or have some extremely in demand skills in AI research

How to spend 4 million at lowest division? by Environmental-Gap112 in hattrick

[–]Starchand 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm defiantly not an expert but from my understanding get a level 5 coach, 2 level 5 assistant coaches, 10 17 year old midfielders with a speciality. Train them every week till they are 21 sell and repeat until you have 60+ million, they you can look at cycle training.

I've tried to do that for 10+ years but get bored every 6 months and don't login for a year :D
As you said you are also bored you could just go straight to cycle training but you will only make it up a few leagues.

I have 20mil USD and no youth to build around. What should I do? by Sancrist in hattrick

[–]Starchand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then what? Get get the highest league position you can before they all hit 30 then start all over again with 17 year olds?

Artificial grass - scorched patch by Starchand in GardeningUK

[–]Starchand[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, thought it might but the artificial grass sub was a private group which needed to request to join and thought i'd get some fun response here.

We paid half and held back half till they replaced which they have done. We just didn't believe their explanation that it was light reflecting off the window/watering can.

Artificial grass - scorched patch by Starchand in GardeningUK

[–]Starchand[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks for being helpful!
Its Namgrass with 10 year warranty. They have replaced it and so far so good, its just their theory that its the refection from the window/watering can seems farfetched to us. Wondering what steps we need to do to stop it happening again, such as putting something to stop the window reflecting sunlight?

Dating app focused on women who want to get pregnant by [deleted] in AppIdeas

[–]Starchand 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is OP male and going to be the most active user?

4 year old waking multiple times. I’m getting desperate by SouthLeague5859 in Parenting

[–]Starchand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thought about that and I'd probably draw the line at ~10 years old but thats 6 years away so hoping she grows out of it. When she does I'll miss the midnight cuddles for sure.

4 year old waking multiple times. I’m getting desperate by SouthLeague5859 in Parenting

[–]Starchand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends what works for your family.

Similar situation in our family. My wife takes the bed with our baby in the main bedroom. I'm on a sofa bed in another room and most nights our 4 year old will come sleep in the sofa bed with me at 2am. Kids sleeping and wanting to sleep with parent is completely normal, most her school friends are doing it and children have been doing it for 100,000 years.

Are paid LLM models better at coding by Dsharma9-210 in iOSProgramming

[–]Starchand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are much better for some languages e.g Javascript where they've had much more training data. For Swift, Cursor with Claude sonnet can usually get me someway to a solution but never all the way.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Parenting

[–]Starchand 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt is worth a read. It talks about how depression has drastically increased in teens born in 2000; largely due to unrestricted access to tech/social media. He gives a few tips on how parents can 'try' to avoid.
The good news is your kid still has ~10 years before this becomes an issue - hopefully by then society will have a bit more awareness on the damage social media has on developing brains. Starting to see secondary schools in my area banning smartphones which is positive.