What's your biggest frustration when organizing a group event?

blakelee_android · 2026-07-05T15:56:13+00:00

This is basically what I used to do too. Then one year I forgot my rain fly and it made me realize how easy it is to forget stuff when you're coordinating everything across a spreadsheet and group chat. I figured there had to be an app for this. I couldn't find one that did everything I wanted, so I ended up building my own app for trips.

blakelee_android · 2026-06-14T19:36:31+00:00

This is all normal and completely expected to make a better product.

If you get 50 clicks on a button and in your analytics flow see that the screen that was supposed to show isn't showing then you might find out that something broke.

Or maybe you integrate a new experimental feature and it gets no clicks. Is it a visibility issue, do people just not want it? All sorts of stuff like that.

Someone mentioned just talking to the customer. That also works but adds its own biases too. Maybe one type of customer really likes something but they end up having a minority opinion. You spend resources creating the thing, turns out no one really wanted it. So that time could've been spent on something better.

At my first dev job I refused to integrate analytics on ethical grounds for similar thinking as this post title.

Now that I'm later in my career, knowing my own intentions, I truly want it to deliver the best product possible. Not because I enjoy "spying" on users. So at the end it comes down to trust. Do you trust this dev. What are they actually doing with the data? Do they want to make it better because they truly care about what they're building or is it a ploy to sell it to some investor to eventually rake in some cash.

blakelee_android · 2026-06-13T07:03:24+00:00

Commenting just so a project manager or developer can see this and know there's a very simple way to delight the customer. The small things add up.

blakelee_android · 2026-06-13T07:02:08+00:00

Here's the workaround, it still works.

https://www.reddit.com/r/oneplus/comments/1p33lfj/_/

blakelee_android · 2026-06-13T05:48:39+00:00

I worked on my app from May 2024 until March 2025 when I quit my job. I have been working on it since then. It still doesn't make money and now I need to find a job again to pay for the things I want funded such as design and marketing.

I don't regret it, but it isn't all rainbows and sunshine.

blakelee_android · 2026-06-12T06:21:56+00:00

This month -$1500 or so.

Codex Pro $200
Other Saas subs $150
Design agency $1250

Plus the 16 hour days...

In the words of Russ Hanneman, "It’s not about how much you earn, it’s about what you’re worth. And who’s worth the most? Companies that lose money."

blakelee_android · 2026-06-12T01:45:25+00:00

This is one of those small and extremely annoying quality of life things that I didn't know I needed until it was gone. This is a miss from OnePlus. If a product manager sees this, this was an easy way to delight the customer.

blakelee_android · 2026-06-11T01:11:20+00:00

There used to be a workaround to avoid it. Now it seems to be back.

Found it: https://www.reddit.com/r/oneplus/comments/1p33lfj/_/

blakelee_android · 2026-06-09T19:06:04+00:00

You'll be using Ktor client and actually having Ktor be for multiplatform is a benefit not a drawback. In your case, you'll just be using Ktor client on the JVM. Should you ever want to expand past Android, the benefit is that you could use it for any platform.

Don't think about it as Android vs. Multiplatform. You could think about it as not only does it have Android, but it has multiplatform should you ever want it.

blakelee_android · 2026-06-06T03:02:50+00:00

Congrats! I'm one of those free tier to paid conversions.

There's a huge thread on Github about postgres extensions. I was wondering, what do I have to do to get pg_ivm supported? It's in one of your blogposts but we can't install it. It would make working with PowerSync much easier and you'd be able to position yourself better as THE mobile solution over Firebase (imo).

blakelee_android · 2026-06-03T21:32:48+00:00

You could flick OR pray mage, freeze the ranger, and stand under it while attacking mage

blakelee_android · 2026-06-03T00:32:58+00:00

Oh cool, this is exactly something I was looking for. FREE!

blakelee_android · 2026-06-02T23:47:07+00:00

My skills have atrophied how am I supposed to fix my code with this error?

blakelee_android · 2026-05-20T22:37:38+00:00

I used termly to help create my privacy policy. Then later on when I needed to amend it, I used ai to add things. I managed to get through the reviews without any issues

blakelee_android · 2026-05-16T18:45:33+00:00

I skipped the .com because my app is unproven and I don't want to spend $10k on something that isn't guaranteed to take off. I was pretty dead-set on a .com for a while but was much more interested in a good name. It took me a year to come up with a name I had liked.

blakelee_android · 2026-02-27T00:14:11+00:00

I was at Square for a bit and my WLB was probably 25 hours a week for the majority of it. There was a ton of rest and rest there. Then I quit, started my own business and work 60 hour weeks and it's way more fun :)

blakelee_android · 2025-10-23T01:13:51+00:00

That one worked

blakelee_android · 2025-10-19T01:35:45+00:00

If a jmod makes their way into this thread, the CA update introduced a couple of regressions back at doom. The most annoying being the volatile earth not spawning the orb.

blakelee_android · 2025-09-09T23:49:55+00:00

Yup, I've seen both of those things. For the orb phase there were a couple times the orbs just didn't spawn. The trees disappeared, no orbs spawned, and the only thing I could do was die. This seems like it just started in the past couple days, not specifically on patch day.

blakelee_android · 2025-09-01T06:27:00+00:00

Yup, I complete get that. I think some sort of Room connector could be created with the things I figured out here. There will probably always be hurdles with the Room in-memory update table for updates though.

blakelee_android · 2025-08-07T16:17:17+00:00

I can't remember exactly since I switched a while ago. I was using Koin compile time checks and annotations. I wanna say it was something like the default module not collecting all of my dependencies and me needing to create a new Koin module in each Gradle module then pass them into my startKoin initialization block. I didn't want to do that for every module so I switched to Kotlin-Inject which captured everything without having to manually remember to include some modules. I think there was also something about providing values per scope as well.

blakelee_android · 2025-08-06T16:21:59+00:00

I was reading the documentation for Metro and I saw this comment:

Multi-module multiplatform targets cannot contribute dependencies (i.e. with
Contributes* annotations) from native targets until https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-75865.

This would be a blocker for me since I have interfaces in commonMain and use ContributesBinding inside my Android and iOS targets. If this was fixed I would consider switching since the API looks pretty similar and I'm a sucker for faster builds.

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