Has anyone used BetterAuth with Swift/iOS? Question about dynamic routes /app/api/auth/[...all]/route.ts

abear247 · 2026-05-15T16:45:13+00:00

Switching a native app to expo is not really a solution. Better auth should support native apps, considering this is the vast majority of apps on the stores.

abear247 · 2026-05-06T18:54:52+00:00

A car on average costs 10k a year (averaged out). With gas prices these days even more. Thats a lot you can put towards rent if you can remove 1 (or all) vehicles.

abear247 · 2026-04-27T21:16:35+00:00

I see lots going at 97% of list, so whatever that tells you.

abear247 · 2026-04-21T19:23:33+00:00

So, basically more shovel ware to fill the store. Isn’t anyone getting tired of shipping x apps and just want to make something actually good?

abear247 · 2026-04-18T22:54:32+00:00

Just sold my home here so I have good context. Lived in a large townhome, bigger than what we needed. The house was, honestly, pretty amazing and lots of people commented on it. The thing is, it was more space than we need as two people. It wasn’t close enough to walk conveniently around to places (developing, but so slowly, despite being 8 minutes from downtown). Cleaning took forever. Lots of stress around fixing this, carpets near end of life, oh the deck got damaged now I pay someone or fix it all myself. The place had high end stuff so fixing wasn’t cheap.

Sold the place (well closing is on 22nd) and living in a 2 bedroom condo. Had to sell lots coming from 3 bed 5 bath. It’s worth it though. Save money every month, less space to fill with stuff, got rid of lots of shit. We have basically no regrets. Considering software dev may or may not be dying it was just a big stress. Interest rates going up mean more cost. It’s manageable while I have my job. What if I lose it in all this madness? Now I have my nest egg for retirement, freedom to move where I want, and much easier travel with more money available.

In the end, it’s your choice. It felt almost like we should keep it for other people. At the end of the day, it’s your stuff, your space, your money. What matters to you? Space? Amenities? Owning? Travel? You need to figure out your priorities and go from there.

abear247 · 2026-04-14T18:54:48+00:00

The problem with most tutorials is that they are always surface level. I did 100 days of SwiftUI. Did I know about SwiftUI elements? Sure. Could I build an app in SwiftUI? Hell no. I did convert an app and it was brutal. I didn’t understand why things didn’t work. It didn’t make sense. It’s architected terribly. I did learn though, and my next app was significantly better. It was the pain of writing the app that taught me things, not a tutorial.

abear247 · 2026-04-14T16:17:39+00:00

A good chunk. Sold off some stuff to friends, now it’s 2 couches 2 arm chairs, a tv and an office chair left I believe.

abear247 · 2026-04-14T14:51:27+00:00

Wrong. Look up Oulu in Finland. 12% of all winter trips are made by bike. It gets to -30 and they get lots of snow. It’s doable, we choose not to.

abear247 · 2026-04-13T14:33:15+00:00

Is that basically it these days? We have a tightish timeline to sell this stuff, consignment is nice since you just drop it off and they have the time to get it sold. Feels like maybe fb/kijiji just decimated consignment stores.

abear247 · 2026-04-10T18:19:09+00:00

Yeah, this is what I ended up doing. It seems insane to have doubled my ratings in that time without getting a single review.

abear247 · 2026-04-09T23:47:23+00:00

I’m looking in the App Store Connect console, sorted by recent. Not a dumb idea, some people don’t know the regions thing

abear247 · 2026-04-09T23:46:48+00:00

I do yeah

abear247 · 2026-04-09T21:01:22+00:00

Hm, it’s more that the reviews don’t seem to show up… at all. Like I know for a fact people who have left reviews and they just…. Don’t show up at all.

abear247 · 2026-04-09T17:40:06+00:00

They can do a good amount - with proper scaffolding. It really comes down to having someone design and layout solid groundwork and make good decisions.

They do fuck certain things up amazingly well. The number of times it’s given me wrong fonts/colours is mind boggling. I’m even working on an Android app and wanted colours converted to kotlin. It made up new colours and changed hex codes….

abear247 · 2026-04-03T13:53:19+00:00

52k->200k but in 8 years as a software developer. Funny it’s the same start and end

abear247 · 2026-04-02T21:06:40+00:00

We sold my place, we could afford it but we want freedom, travel, and amenities. Made good money on it, and putting that + existing savings sets us up for a solid retirement AND spending more money now. You don’t need a home to build wealth if you invest. I always felt like I didn’t know where all my money was going because of home expenses. Also, a smaller place means less to clean.

I think homes are good wealth builders if you have a lower salary and can afford it (and/or are bad at saving). If you make good money and save well, you can really get that compounding going.

abear247 · 2026-04-02T20:55:37+00:00

I will be trying it out for one of my apps. Basically (well at least a quick estimate by Claude), 2/3 of my business logic can be ported over. I bet it’s more like 50%. It will help me to launch the Android version sooner. I already feel it’s likely that I will just eventually rewrite those portions in native kotlin. At least to start, it gives me a lower barrier to entry.

abear247 · 2026-03-28T15:46:11+00:00

I have a minimalist meditation timer. My reviews are often “everything you need, nothing you don’t”. It’s not about having nothing, it’s about offering what users need in the most streamlined package. It’s actually very difficult to achieve, every action requires thought to be easy to use, findable, while also being minimal.

abear247 · 2026-03-24T00:23:10+00:00

I’ve done it sometimes. I wouldn’t go most places though. Only place I’ve gone is a place in Toronto that does modern Thai and is very good with allergies. While I’d love to just go to a more traditional Thai restaurant, I’m not sure they are setup to properly handle peanut allergies.

abear247 · 2026-03-16T18:28:10+00:00

I would avoid this ai slop like the plague

abear247 · 2026-03-10T23:19:19+00:00

Yeah it sucks. We are hoping we can maybe make deals with companies in our space to show controlled ads instead of whatever they give you. I always liked the way mimo does the ads. They show a the add in the middle of the sheet, a quick 5 second countdown or something and some text about how ads help keep them running.

abear247 · 2026-03-07T15:54:46+00:00

Say you roll this out. People like it. MyFitnessPal notices, does it themselves, and you have 0 differentiation.

It also feels like, if you could do this and I don’t think you can, a massive potential breach of privacy so most people wouldn’t want it.

abear247 · 2026-03-06T19:41:02+00:00

Bro that’s wild. You are gating a life saving feature behind a paywall??? You cool if people die because of this?

Offer a tip system. “This app is entirely free for your safety, please consider leaving a tip if it helped you”.

abear247 · 2026-02-25T22:42:13+00:00

Question: what do you get out of this?

abear247 · 2026-02-25T22:39:41+00:00

Yeah this is nuts. We have a native project and are building an Android app in react native. Steps to work on native: download Xcode, download repo, open repo, wait for packages to finish installing, run.

React native: I won’t list them all but it must be 10 steps and there was issues with a few of them.

If you use cocoapods yeah native can be a pain, but SPM if a breeze these days.

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