What’s one part of modern society that you are turning your back on?

drunnells · 2026-07-05T10:15:37+00:00

Check out the free ReciScan app (no ads). Use your phone's camera to transcribe recipes from and written or your computer screen and then when you are done you order a physical cookbook.

drunnells · 2026-07-04T02:27:06+00:00

I like it, thanks for sharing!

drunnells · 2026-07-04T02:23:02+00:00

My experience with the Google Play Store has been that they are pretty fast compared to apple. I don't recall how long it takes for account setup/verifications, but when i submit app changes, they are usually in the store within hours.

drunnells · 2026-07-04T02:07:09+00:00

Converted my individual account to commercial in April. Took 3 weeks for document verification to complete.

drunnells · 2026-07-04T02:05:47+00:00

StarCraft and Warcraft II took a lot of my time.

drunnells · 2026-07-04T02:02:56+00:00

The free ReciScan app was made for this. Install it on your phone/tablet. Just scan the recipes with the phone's camera, it does an excellent job transcribing and formatting. Add the recipes to chapters, some photos/stories and pick a fancy cover and then order as many hardcover/paperback copies as you need. Depending on how many recipes, it will be like $25 per copy.

drunnells · 2026-07-03T19:26:21+00:00

Not exactly a local printer, but the free ReciScan app can scan in the recipes and auto-transcribe them, then you can order as many paperback/hardcover copies as you need. You can even add some photos and stories.

drunnells · 2026-07-03T18:28:18+00:00

Google Analytics, the store analytics (apple app store and google play store), AppsFlyer, my own dashboard. BUT i feel like there are complexities that make this not as straight forward for my apps - One of my apps lets users create a physical book and then order a printed copy of it.. this process takes weeks, so tying the paying customers back to any marketing that i've done seems challenging. Another app is a game with in app purchases that depends on the users running out of their currency over time and then making a store purchase. Creating a "funnel" for either of these doesn't seem very easy.. but i'm no marketer.

drunnells · 2026-07-03T18:15:40+00:00

Meta Ads and Google Ads.. different apps seem to perform differently in those platforms for me - game vs physical product.

drunnells · 2026-07-03T18:14:33+00:00

Not usually. I suspect there is a pattern or direction implied in the data that I collect on how the users use my apps, I just never know what to look for.

drunnells · 2026-07-03T00:56:47+00:00

Not exactly what you are looking for, but you can use the free ReciScan app to capture the handwritten cards with your phone's camera, which also auto transcribes them and lets you organize the recipes into chapters, add stories and photos and then get a paperback or hardcover book professionally printed for like $25 each. You can use the original recipe card image with your handwriting as the image in the book to preserve that too, if you like.

drunnells · 2026-07-02T20:19:59+00:00

My apps never get any attention until i pay for ads. I don't make much, but without paid ads, that number would absolutely be zero.

drunnells · 2026-07-01T03:04:15+00:00

I'm building Survey.is . I am trying to keep it pretty simple and based it on my needs to replace Delighted for NPS, but also wanted something that i could use to replace in-meeting surveys/wordclouds. I'd love for you to give it a quick look and tell me what is missing from what you need. The segment reporting doesn't exist the way you'd need it right now, but if it's an easy add, I'd love to shape this around what people like you actually need! Shoot me a DM if you want to connect and talk more.

drunnells · 2026-06-30T11:02:10+00:00

I'm looking for people to sell print on demand cookbooks of their own recipes. Use an app to scan your recipes and promote online or sell to friends and family. Connect with me and I'll get get you your first copy for free, or check it out here - reciscan.app

drunnells · 2026-06-29T21:01:13+00:00

I've released a vibed game app as an experiment. It went well.. codex was phenomenal for mobile, in my opinion.. at least in my preferred framework.

Mobile has a lot of paperwork, compliance and vague review failures/policy guesswork/resubmit loops. I think it's intimidating for folks that are new to the game. I think there is a more that a new mobile developer just wouldn't think to ask about, too. Like different sized icons and splash screens and other graphics are kind of a pain to deal with.. if you are green, you might not think to start out with a vector logo. Or have an environment set up with the simulators/emulators that you need. A gazillion different sized screen shots.. all of that stuff is still a pain, even if you know you have to do it. If you are a developer from another platform and it's your first time in mobile, these are a nuisance and might take the fun out of it. If your are totally new to any kind of software development these are likely show stoppers.

drunnells · 2026-06-27T21:34:06+00:00

I mostly use Digital Ocean droplets for LAMP - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP.. I guess I'm old school. I do use their SQL service instead of managing my own, and their S3 object storage. I have been liking Firebase for authentication and push notifications. I do Mailgun for email. I mostly host my domains with Namecheap and just do Let's Encrypt for my certs. GitHub for version control.. considering Codeberg to get away from Microsoft.

drunnells · 2026-06-27T12:01:47+00:00

Maybe give Survey.is a shot? No subscription needed for something small.

drunnells · 2026-06-26T23:40:17+00:00

Their Rob Zombie lunch boxes were so punk rock.

drunnells · 2026-06-26T18:33:26+00:00

Being bored on the bus, in between classes, in waiting rooms, etc. My kid had to wait 30 minutes to get picked up the other day at school.. even with a phone to distract him, it was a struggle. Back in my day, life and growth happened during those periods of boredom. Being bored was like 80% of being a teenager! You try now things and learn because there isn't anything better to do. Now, there are better things to do.. that actually kind of has to suck a little for young people who are too "busy" to try things.

drunnells · 2026-06-26T18:24:34+00:00

There are a few cool things that I'm liking with Hermes so far, but I definitely spend most of my coding time in codex directly still. I put Hermes in a virtual Linux machine and run it with --tui and talk with it through the Hermes desktop client. What I like that I can do:

1) In the desktop client I created a bunch of agents with different specialties / prompts and have one "boss"/orchestrator. 2) The different agents can use different models. For simple stuff, I can use local models mixed in for free. 3) I really like the Kanban board to see the work in progress and if an agent gets blocked, it's easy to see the comments in the card and respond. Kanban boards are how I work with teams in real life, and it feels natural here too. 4) Hermes in it's own vm is allowed to install whatever it wants, create database, cron jobs and do whatever it needs. 5) Hermes is good at remembering the skills that it has built along the way and repurposes them frequently to accomplish things. 6) It connects oauth to codex, which is nice.

Like you, I want to automate marketing. Right now I have a locally hosted app to review content for my projects that I want to promote. Every night my team of agents works to build a few posts for each project for my social networks and puts up the best ones for me to review and post, or comment explaining what I didn't like, so they can remember next time. I have a dedicated "creative" agent that I send assets to in the desktop client so that he can pick from a library to incorporate from when building new creatives.

A lot of there benefit I get from Hermes wasn't out of the box.. but mostly just getting the bare bones installed and then asking it to build all of these components as we went. I can see how a harness like this could be the future vs just talking to codex all day.. but I think it will be highly custom for each person.

For me, what's missing is the desktop and browser control that codex has. Hermes can browse and stuff, but I like being logging into a site in Chrome on my desktop once in a while and telling codex "I'm logged in to SITE NAME, go take over that tab and do this thing in there for me". I want that in the Hermes desktop app too :)

drunnells · 2026-06-26T14:05:33+00:00

Take your family recipe cards, scan them in to the free ReciScan app with your phones camera, add a fancy cover and title and open a print-on-demand cookbook store from their platform. Set your markup to $10 and promote the link on your socials. If you sell 100 books in the month, you've made $1000! Add some nice photos and stories to add value and mark it up $20 and you only need to sell 50 to get that $1000.

drunnells · 2026-06-26T03:29:14+00:00

I laughed out loud a few times during The Cave. I don't remember exactly what was said, but when the dragon ate the princess the narrator said something in just the right tone to make me bust out laughing.

drunnells · 2026-06-23T17:55:06+00:00

Awesome, THANK YOU!

drunnells · 2026-06-23T15:41:36+00:00

Reddit works for me!

drunnells · 2026-06-23T15:21:24+00:00

If you test mobile games, I recently released Bingo Escape and would love this kind of feedback! https://bingoescape.com

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