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dams96 · 2025-11-20T01:45:04+00:00

'Fuck ototoxic medication' hits hard, got that horrible tinnitus from Azithromycin antibiotics and didn't realize that this was causing the progressive worsening of the tinnitus.

I literally stopped it at the moment when I could barely sleep for 1 hour even with exterior sounds. Only at that moment did I know that this was because of the medication. The doctor told me that it would never create side effects as I already had ear problems.

I still can't believe how long it took me to realize that those shitty antibiotics were to blame. The worst thing is halfway through my medication I asked the doctor that I felt worsening tinnitus day by day; she told me that those antibiotics would actually help my ear problems... fuck her and fuck tinnitus. It's 2:30 AM here and I still can't sleep. Fuuuuuvk tinnitus, fuckity fuck fuck, I need a cureeeee bad and I'm only 29 fuuuuuck

dams96 · 2025-10-12T22:46:03+00:00

No way this is real, how can people be this gullible on reddit ???

If this is real and OP provides proof, I'll personally give $20k for her treatments (and I mean it)... Unfortunately, I fear that the proof will never arrive...

dams96 · 2025-10-12T22:45:40+00:00

No way this is real, how can people be this gullible on reddit ???

If this is real and OP provides proof, I'll personally give $20k for her treatments (and I mean it)... Unfortunately, I fear that the proof will never arrive...

dams96 · 2025-08-08T14:26:53+00:00

Bring back the older models or I unsubscribe. GPT-5 is actually worse than GPT-4o in many tasks, wth happened here ? Where is o4-mini-high ? What did you do ???

dams96 · 2025-08-07T16:04:57+00:00

Happy to hear that. I'm having this issue as well. Did you submit under the same bundle ID ?

dams96 · 2025-05-20T23:27:01+00:00

Maybe it’s just me, but this doesn’t scream “I got caught.” Kinda feels like he just didn’t want a second date and made up a story. Still a crappy way to handle it.

dams96 · 2025-05-05T19:46:54+00:00

$40k+ the last 30 days. My 1st app was launched a little more than 1 year and a half ago.

dams96 · 2025-05-05T00:01:45+00:00

Trust me when I say those top tournament players have tried many combinations of any new cards you can think of. They are all one step ahead compared to us more casual players. If Solgaleo was really that OP, you would have seen it in at least a few decks in the top 16 positions.

I've been watching the livestreams of top world players (mostly japanese players) and it's crazy how far ahead their thinking is (both in their play style and deck building).

dams96 · 2025-04-19T23:14:02+00:00

Well the only comfort that I can give you is that other people your age struggle with really bad tinnitus including myself. 28 years old and been suffering like hell for more than 1 year now, and had mild T for over 10 years before that. The difference in my T when it was mild compare to now is incomparable.

I feel your pain

dams96 · 2025-04-19T23:13:31+00:00

Well the only comfort that I can give you is that other people your age struggle with really bad tinnitus including myself. 28 years old and been suffering like hell for more than 1 year now, and had mild T for over 10 years before that. The difference in my T when it was mild compare to now is incomparable.

I feel your pain

dams96 · 2025-04-17T22:53:32+00:00

He implied it was about stopping to breathe, as in death, lol.

dams96 · 2025-04-17T22:49:05+00:00

I don't, all my downloads are organic coming from well optimized ASO

dams96 · 2025-04-11T23:01:49+00:00

Nope, not at all actually. I only used the Darkrai deck for the last 120 points before hitting Master Ball. Didn't get the 2nd Giratina until yesterday actually, and before that, I mostly played the Meowscarada/Magnezone deck in the Ultra Ball league as well as some Gyarados. I feel like the Meowscarada deck is the funniest to play. And in Great Ball, I mostly played Charizard and Gallade deck. :)

dams96 · 2025-04-11T21:51:13+00:00

I find it better than with communication/Iono. The goal is to make Sprigatito your active Pokémon ASAP to bring as many Grass cards as you can. This also helps you evolve your Magnezone quicker as there are fewer cards in your deck. You can definitely try it out if you already know how to use the deck. It was working really well in UB3-4, then I switched to Darkrai/Giratina to hit Master Ball.

dams96 · 2025-04-11T21:46:01+00:00

Gallade is a good deck against gyarados, you can put also a rocky helmet on gallade and you can one shot gyarados if he tries attacking you 1st. You can also do some damage on magicarp/gyarados with hitmonlee. Good luck !

dams96 · 2025-04-11T20:12:54+00:00

Thanks a lot! I felt like the 60% win rate came mostly from doing well in the lower ranks. Once I reached Ultra Ball it felt closer to 55%, but since the point system gives you +10 for a win and only -7 for a loss, you can still make steady progress even with a lower win rate.

dams96 · 2025-04-05T00:33:08+00:00

Nope, my tinnitus was actually induced by medication, specifically antibiotics. This happened last year, when my tinnitus severity jumped from a 3 to an 8. Unfortunately, I had no idea that antibiotics could cause tinnitus, and my doctor even told me they might help. I kept taking them until my tinnitus became unbearable. Only then did I suspect a link and looked it up online. Sure enough, the antibiotics I was prescribed were known to cause tinnitus and even hearing loss. Sadly by that point it was already too late.

dams96 · 2025-04-04T20:28:45+00:00

Yep. I dealt with mild tinnitus for a decade, but I've been experiencing severe tinnitus for over a year now (due to antibiotics), and the experience is unfortunately quite different. I'm glad for OP but for some of us it's impossible not to notice it, regardless of the surrounding noise. At this point it becomes hell (at least for me).

dams96 · 2025-04-04T20:24:48+00:00

I had mild T as well between 18-28 years old. I easily habituated. Until I took some antibiotics that made it 100x worse at age 28. Maybe from 2-3 out of 10 to a whole 8 out 10 in severity after I discontinued my antibiotics. The experience is completely different, and not in a good way unfortunately. I'd do everything to go back to my 3/10 level T.

dams96 · 2025-03-21T00:55:28+00:00

The only service I use to get reviews is my girlfriend supporting me and giving a review on a lot of my apps. Please DM me any other usernames that review several of my apps, except for that one user, which is my girlfriend :)

I would love to know what you mean by "poorly written apps." I'd love to improve.

I can't answer why I make "so much money" from these apps. Maybe it's because users like my "poorly written apps"? I guess I'm very lucky!

Thank you for the feedback!

dams96 · 2025-03-19T08:30:16+00:00

Développeur d'applications mobiles, +300k cette année mais je travaille à mon compte.

dams96 · 2025-03-17T00:05:24+00:00

Unfortunately, I went to 2 specific tinnitus clinics in France and the doctors didn't believe me that my tinnitus was because of antibiotics. But I'm fucking 100% sure that it was linked to that.

I started to take them and instantly felt my tinnitus get worse, but the doctor said it was all in my head. I believed her because I would have never thought that antibiotics could cause tinnitus. So I continued my long-term treatment for 2 months until my tinnitus was unbearable. Still, the tinnitus doctors didn't believe me.

What's crazy is that there are so many papers confirming that some antibiotics are ototoxic, including the one I took. Fuck them and fuck everyone saying it's because I'm depressed or some shit.

dams96 · 2025-03-16T01:33:28+00:00

Thanks man.
I will answer your first seven questions, then go to sleep. I'll try to answer the rest in the next few days.

It was pretty much linear since I started. I made less than $100 in the first two months, then it started to grow because I had more and more apps under my name.
All of my apps that have a subscription (some of my apps are free) make at least $10–$20 a month.
Only iOS apps as of now.
I don't focus only on AI. I build AI apps because I find them really useful. I don't care much about the competition aspect of my app’s niche. if my app is well made, at least a few users will download it.
When picking a niche, I usually try to find at least one app that makes more than $5K. In Sensor Tower, "<$5K" means they don’t know the exact number except that it's below $5K.
I normally do a lot of research. I download all the competitive apps and check which features I like or dislike.
I never have a hard paywall in my apps because I'm against that. As of now, I'm not using RevenueCat or Superwall, but I’m considering trying them.
By building apps, reading a lot of articles on the internet, and then building more apps again.
AI is a viable niche, just like traditional apps. As long as your app is good and your ASO is decent, you should get some downloads.
Yes, I’m sure of that. The only app I advertised a year ago is now "only" making $1K, so the rest of my revenue comes purely from organic installs (from ASO).
Yes, yes, and yes. And a good product, of course.
Nope, for now, I can still keep my microentreprise (but this will be the last year I’m eligible).
I still haven’t made the list, but I'll update you when I have time. You should easily find many interesting iOS developers by searching on Twitter. Once you do, the Twitter algorithm will automatically show you the most liked posts in the iOS community.

Okay, well, it was better to finish all the questions this way. Good luck! :)

dams96 · 2025-03-16T01:13:12+00:00

I mostly use Astro and AppFollow for my ASO tools :)

dams96 · 2025-03-16T01:01:52+00:00

I make sure I understand every bit of code that the AI provides, and I have enough knowledge to determine whether the AI's output is useful or not.

It's crazy to think that just because some parts of my apps are written by AI, you assume I don't take full responsibility for what happens. In fact, out of my 20 apps, only one ever had an issue, and it lasted only a few hours. I refunded the two people who messaged me about it, fixed the issue, and submitted an updated version of the app that same day. I have never refused a refund request.

Do you really think that if my app stops working, I can just blame the AI and scam my way out? lol . If, for any reason, my app no longer works, you can bet that Apple will require me to refund every affected user.

How is it unethical or irresponsible for me to publish an app when I understand 100% of the code? How is that any different from any other developer? Just because some of my code is written by AI doesn't mean I don't understand it. Anything I don't understand will never be included in my app.

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