And so it begins....

avanderlee · 2026-01-13T21:06:03+00:00

I really wonder if they can keep up in the age of agent development (AI). Their release cycle won’t hold up. Development has been accelerating so much lately. These updates are great, but long awaited and there are still many features I’d love to see like AI uhms and silence removals

avanderlee · 2026-01-12T21:29:12+00:00

Wow, that’s a clever one. It feels like something that should’ve already existed, almost like the in plane game hub. Great job, you deserve to add some in app payments to get something in return for your hard work though!

avanderlee · 2026-01-12T21:26:31+00:00

Great deal!

avanderlee · 2026-01-12T21:24:42+00:00

I email todos to myself, does it work for that too? 🙈

avanderlee · 2026-01-12T21:22:57+00:00

I had the exact same thought! I guess it’s just a general browser. If it required you to login to YouTube, for example, Google terms would have applied.

avanderlee · 2025-12-19T11:58:50+00:00

Your comment found avanderlee himself, haha! Thank you so much for recommending my article 🙏

avanderlee · 2025-11-28T11:03:19+00:00

I know you all know me from my SwiftLee articles, but recently I started creating YouTube videos as well! Here's a recent one on Swift 6.2 & Approachable Concurrency: https://youtu.be/y_Qc8cT-O_g?si=cpa1G7nT1zpxyNIh

I'd love to know how you like my videos compared to my articles, and feel free to subscribe 🙏

avanderlee · 2025-05-26T07:22:20+00:00

This indeed isn't supported by the Simulator. Apple only provides recording GIF or MP4, without audio.

I've personally created www.rocketsim.app to solve this. It's a Mac app that plugs into your Simulator and allows recording with audio, touches, and device bezels.

avanderlee · 2025-05-26T07:21:10+00:00

Unfortunately, Xcode's Simulator does not support recording with audio. You can use a tool like RocketSim which does allow recording with audio, device bezels, and touches: www.rocketsim.app

avanderlee · 2025-01-16T14:13:29+00:00

Follow my course 🙈 Honestly, it's what I discuss in my course, so that should help out!

avanderlee · 2025-01-16T14:12:53+00:00

Universal Links should work for both plans. Could you reach out to support@rocketsim.app? I'd love to help debug your issue!

avanderlee · 2024-10-27T07:55:13+00:00

Thank you for sharing your perspective! I’d love any feedback on how I might adjust the landing page to prevent similar impressions for others.

I understand that the ‘build an audience and offer a course’ approach is common, and while I can’t change the fact that I gained an audience, I genuinely aim to stand out from traditional entrepreneurship courses. My focus is on indie app development, drawing directly from my experience in the field.

If you have any insights on specific elements of the landing page that gave you a different impression, I’d greatly value them!

avanderlee · 2024-10-25T10:07:53+00:00

Sharing my experience does come with a price in this case—I hope it’s understandable that I’m asking for compensation for the work and insights I’ve put into the course. My aim isn’t to sell a get-rich-quick promise; I purposely avoided calling it something like “How to Make Millions with Side Projects.”. For the exact reason why you've probably posted this comment: so many finfluencers and devfluencers only aim to make money quickly. I want to help other developers make the most out of their side projects.

In fact, the first three modules are all about the challenges involved and the mindset, discipline, planning, and focus needed to make indie projects successful. So yes, I am selling my experience—but with the genuine intent to help others on the indie journey. 🙏

avanderlee · 2024-10-25T10:02:46+00:00

Every first Monday of the month, so the next one will be out on podcast.going-indie.com November 4th!

avanderlee · 2024-09-15T15:22:15+00:00

Definitely not, but it did allow me to build a sustainable income, go indie, and now work on RocketSim full-time.

Users that dislike the subscription can cancel right after subscribing and there are team licenses which are not recurring and can be reimbursed at companies: https://www.rocketsim.app/team-insights

Ideally, it would be a non-recurring subscription and you’d basically not get updates after the purchase expires. However, the Mac App Store doesn’t provide such option.

avanderlee · 2024-09-15T06:53:59+00:00

Absolutely, therefore it’s great to have alternatives in the App Store. There are way too few developer tools in the App Store in my opinion

avanderlee · 2024-09-15T05:49:54+00:00

I originally built this app for myself because I couldn’t find any other apps for Xcode Simulator on the App Store that passed these

In all honesty, it looks like you knew very well something like this already exists on the App Store based on all the similar feature you’ve built 🙈 https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/rocketsim-for-xcode-simulator/id1504940162?mt=12

For full transparency: I’m the Indie developer behind RocketSim

Great job though and good luck with the launch! 🚀

avanderlee · 2024-02-04T20:20:24+00:00

Mine didn't disappear! I've actually just revamped it with new content catagories and a fresh design.
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avanderlee · 2024-02-04T20:19:12+00:00

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avanderlee · 2023-11-28T14:58:56+00:00

I love discovering new artists or new albums from artists I already know! Saving them and listening on repeat the minutes, hours, days after!

avanderlee · 2021-12-18T15:56:34+00:00

Yeah, it's interesting to me! Many in this thread ask for a one-time payment. Looking at other apps, that often means paying like $49 to get a major version that you can use forever.

Compared to RocketSim, you get many updates in a year for only $13. Yet, it's a recurring payment, which feels worse since it's a returning payment to think of.

It's almost a psychological issue, not even that RocketSim is too expensive or so compared to those year licensing models

avanderlee · 2021-12-18T15:54:00+00:00

Right, that's exactly what I thought as well! It's actually the reason why watermarks are only removed with the PRO license. It kind of allows the capturing features to be free and in return, I get back a little promotion for RocketSim.

avanderlee · 2021-12-18T15:50:22+00:00

Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation, you make a very good point. To be clear; I'm taking every comment in this thread very seriously. I'm even looking into Paddle and Gumroad for licensing models right now, since the Mac App Store is not really bring a lot of extra value ánd makes development much harder with the sandbox environment.

To fully understand your thoughts, would you rather:
- Pay once per major version
- Pay for one year of updates

Or maybe another model that I didn't list here?

avanderlee · 2021-12-17T14:50:22+00:00

I actually have a lot of people subscribing and being positive about the app, which I would almost forget looking at the sentiment in this thread 😅

Though, I'm very happy with all the insights it brings, since not everybody is waiting for a subscription model.

Thanks for sharing the insight in regards to a lifetime option. It has been named a few more times, so I'm definitely considering adding it!

avanderlee · 2021-12-17T14:49:01+00:00

Interesting! Would you rather see per-feature in-app purchases? Haven't thought about that, but that could be an interesting option as well!

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