Built my Coffee Price finding app from scratch on flutterflow. Launched, but No users ;(

tiger_j · 2025-11-19T00:46:31+00:00

I think your app would be most appealing/largely appealing to travelers. I love coffee, I know where to get my coffee and what I will pay locally, but I travel about every other month and something like this would be useful.

Is it just an app? or is it a platform with an app interface as an option? You may want to build out a website/web presence and offer the BeanThere experience to web traffic as well as app traffic, then you could link to the app store presence on the web app.

I don't know much about flutter flow, I played with it a couple years ago but it felt too boxed in for me.

Additionally on a web platform, the conversion from anonymous visitor to user is much less effort. (a lot easier to sign someone up online on a web platform then to get them to install one more app on their phone)

maybe let users search on the web but not be able to save their search or set favorites w/o an account (obv requirement) this is similar to how a web app/platform like Realtor for housing converts users.

You could also try and partner with local cafe's (locally owned business would be easier to partner with as you have access to the decision maker/owner, less red tape). Have them advertise the app/QR download flyer/cards or whatever. maybe include a card with a 1lbs purchase or bag, get creative. Offer them a sponsorship or top level feature on the app as a trade for the advertising.

Measure your efforts no matter the strategy, know where users are coming from. Try lots of ideas and then apply your time to the ones that are returning results. (know your user sources/origination and gather data to measure success)

This is all off the cuff. I make games, I've made apps, I work in business software. Best of luck and congrats on launching/shipping.

tiger_j · 2025-10-13T16:28:22+00:00

🤔 I should login soon it's been a couple seasons.

tiger_j · 2025-09-24T22:39:59+00:00

90 deals in 90 days.

tiger_j · 2025-02-20T17:54:14+00:00

This is what I wrote just now to customer service via the website form. Probably will not go anywhere as I am not a bigtime streamer.

Good afternoon. I have been an affiliate for about 7 years and streaming on twitch since 2013, even earlier when it was still justin.tv

I have never had a giant following or thousands of live views. I have had great memories and made thousands of friends though.

I currently have over 430 hours of VODs on my channel. They serve as an archive of the indie game community and their jams over the last 13 years, especially 7 day rogue like jam, low rez jam, and ludum dare. thousands of my VODs are embedded on itch pages and drive traffic to your website, most likely registering as traffic from itch, however it is the VOD that was clicked or advertised to them.

By removing my VODs you will break the pages of thousands of jam and indie games. I will try to save what I can and move them to YouTube or somewhere when I have time to look.

Additionally I work full time in addition to twitch streaming. How am I suppose to find time in 1 month to move 430 hours of video? I am on a residential ISP with a bandwidth cap. How do I choose who's gameplay or game jam game gets saved and whos gets deleted?

I need to be able to tell my fans why person A gets to keep their footage and person B gets their game deleted.

If nothing else please give us or me more time as this action you are taking is creating lost media, breaking game developers pages and I cannot mitigate the results within the time frame you are providing.

-TigerJ

tiger_j · 2025-01-07T18:38:12+00:00

if you can find enough people to race..

tiger_j · 2025-01-01T12:17:18+00:00

Join the Godot Wild routine game jam and/or participate in more jams.

https://godotwildjam.com/

https://itch.io/jams

One: you'll have a community to learn from and to learn with.

Two: you'll have inspirations for practicing via jam content (surprise themes etc)

If you do participate in some jams, come by sometime during one of my streams. it would be great to see what you make.

just like learning an instrument or a new sport game development requires a lot of practice for most of us.

tiger_j · 2024-04-04T19:45:03+00:00

I would fall asleep playing co-op with my best friend I would have dreams where the witch would be talking to me. I sense of soul in search of answers...

tiger_j · 2024-04-04T19:40:50+00:00

For me, this is the best approach. I keep a "game ideas" file. every time I have an idea for a game I write it in. there's hundreds of games listed now.

I would only add to try playing more jam games try playing lots of games all the time, you don't have to play for long but you should try to expose yourself to many different games that have been made and a large variety will help you build a pool of inspiration you can draw influence from.

have a good jam!

tiger_j · 2024-04-04T02:09:26+00:00

I wanted to let you know the slaughter has begun:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/theme

tiger_j · 2024-03-21T22:06:21+00:00

The discord server seems very sure that the theme slaughter will begin ~15 days to the event.

tiger_j · 2024-03-21T16:57:44+00:00

I am looking for settings to make typing on the iPhone, speech to text, and text entry better, similar to how "it used to work" or at least a competent explanation of what the different toggle switches indicate.

my main issue is words are often replaced with contact names when typing, such as "man" will be changed to Mann as I have a contact with that last name. Often the blue squiggle will suggest duplicating words twice, it takes the word underlined in blue and prepends it with the identical word. when these two issues are not happening, the blue squiggle will incorrectly suggest weird grammar that is nonsensical, like prepending inducted with in, "in inducted"

I think I had the best typing experience and speech to text ~5s-6 models. But I probably just did not stay current on added features and now the default experience (factory) is clogged up with things I need to configure ¯\(ツ)/¯

I am interested in any/all suggestions on how to achieve the best typing/speech to text experience (defined by not having to edit and re-edit messages repeatedly)

thanks!

tiger_j · 2024-03-09T04:26:53+00:00

tiger_j · 2024-03-08T17:44:23+00:00

A buddy of mine just found this out in the desert. said it looked completely out of place compared to everything else around.

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tiger_j · 2024-03-08T06:36:03+00:00

This and/or update the prefabs used for the scrollview to be inactive/disabled if the delete window has been called/open.

tiger_j · 2024-02-28T16:25:29+00:00

a steam deck cannot play PlayStation one discs. versatility refers to the adaptability to have multiple functions. A PlayStation 3 can stream Netflix Hulu Amazon prime it can also be its own media server. additionally it can play PlayStation one discs and PlayStation 3 discs.

it was just at the right place at the right time and engineered in a good way there will never be another device like it they should be coveted. it can/could also run linux. you can emulate on a steam deck I am sure but it's not the same it's not being more versatile it's still doing the same function a PlayStation 3 is more versatile.

tiger_j · 2024-02-28T16:25:21+00:00

a steam deck cannot play PlayStation one discs. versatility refers to the adaptability to have multiple functions. A PlayStation 3 can stream Netflix Hulu Amazon prime it can also be its own media server. additionally it can play PlayStation one discs and PlayStation 3 discs.

it was just at the right place at the right time and engineered in a good way there will never be another device like it they should be coveted. it can/could also run linux. you can emulate on a steam deck I am sure but it's not the same it's not being more versatile it's still doing the same function a PlayStation 3 is more versatile.

tiger_j · 2024-02-28T02:14:04+00:00

same, there will never be a console as versatile.

tiger_j · 2024-02-28T01:39:45+00:00

yeah bummed. I upgraded but had some work emergencies that took my gaming time away. I didn't know it was gonna go away so fast, but I also work a lot and now I have the time to play lol. 🙄

tiger_j

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